Research Catalog

Title

Theorizing language : analysis, normativity, rhetoric, history / Talbot J. Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Talbot J.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Pergamon, 1997.

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Details

Description

x, 271 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A collection of the author's papers, some revised, most of which were previously published in various sources over the past fifteen years.

Subject

• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Diskurstheorie
• Sprachtheorie
• Sprachnorm
• Taalgebruik
• Taalwetenschap
• Langage et langues > Philosophie
• Théorie Linguistique
• Linguistique
• Analyse linguistique

Note

• A collection of the author's papers, some revised, most of which were previously published in various sources over the past fifteen years.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Enculturating language -- 2. Scriptism and the analysis of ideal speech -- 3. A Wittgensteinian perspective in linguistics -- 4. Do you understand? Criteria of understanding in verbal interaction -- 5. Communication and literary style: The principle of intersubjectivity -- 6. Reflexivity, politics, and explanation in conversation analysis -- 7. Which is to be master? -- 8. Normativity and linguistic form -- 9. Why we need a theory of language -- 10. Communicational scepticism and the discourse of order -- 11. Bruner and Condillac on learning how to talk -- 12. The anthropomorphic and the sceptical -- 13. The origin of language: Why it never happened.

ISBN

• 0080425771
• 9780080425771

LCCN

97035646

OCLC

• ocm37712919
• 37712919
• SCSB-358204

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library