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Theory groups and the study of language in North America : a social history
- Title
- Theory groups and the study of language in North America : a social history / Stephen O. Murray.
- Author
- Murray, Stephen O.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1994.
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- Description
- xix, 594 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.
- Series Statement
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 69
- Uniform Title
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 69.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- An earlier version was presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--1979.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-576) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Theory Groups in Science -- 2. Early Work on American Languages -- 3. Franz Boas and the Institutionalization of Academic Anthropology -- 4. Boas's Students -- 5. Edward Sapir -- 6. Was Bloomfield a Bloomfieldian? -- 7. Neo-Bloomfieldians -- 8. Structuralist Diversification During the 1950s -- 9. Transformational-Generative Grammar before the 1964-66 Revelations -- 10. Language contact and Early Sociolinguistics -- 11. The Ethnography of Speaking -- 12. Related Perspectives -- 13. Ethnoscience -- 14. The Sociology of Language -- 15. Permanent Chomskian Civil War in Linguistics -- 16. The Third Generation of University of California Sociolinguists -- 17. The Turn Away from Linguistic Interest in Contemporary American Anthropology -- 18. Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 1556193645
- 9781556193644
- 9027245568
- 9789027245564
- LCCN
- 93034835
- OCLC
- ocm28929291
- 28929291
- SCSB-2130412
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library