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Chapman, Siobhan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language / Siobhan Chapman, Christopher Routledge. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2009 1 online resource (272 p.) : 6 B/W illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Acceptability/Grammaticality -- Adequacy -- Ambiguity/Vagueness -- Analytic Philosophy -- Analytic/Synthetic -- Artificial Intelligence -- Behaviourism -- Cognitivism -- Compositionality -- Connotation/Denotation -- Continuity -- Conventional Meaning -- Conversation Analysis -- Corpora -- Correspondence Theory -- Creativity -- Deconstruction -- Deduction/Induction -- Definite Descriptions -- Descriptivism -- (Critical) Discourse Analysis -- Distinctive Features -- Emic/Etic -- Empiricism/Rationalism -- Feminism -- Generative Phonology -- Generative Semantics -- Glossematics -- Holism -- Ideational Theories -- Implicature -- Indeterminacy -- Innateness -- Integrationism -- Intentionality -- Intuition -- Language Games -- Language of Thought -- Langue/Parole -- Linguistic Relativity -- Linguistic Variable -- Logic -- Logical Form -- Logical Positivism -- Mentalism -- Metaphor -- Minimalism -- Modality -- Model-theoretic Semantics -- Names -- Nonnatural Meaning -- Optimality Theory -- Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Performative -- Phoneme -- Politeness -- Political Correctness -- Port-Royal Logic -- Possible World Semantics -- Poststructuralism -- Presupposition -- Private Language -- Propositional Attitudes -- Propositions -- Prototype -- Psychoanalysis -- Relevance Theory -- Sense Data -- Sense/Reference -- Signs and Semiotics -- Situational Semantics -- Speech Act Theory -- Structuralism -- Systemic-Functional Grammar -- Transformational-Generative Grammar -- Truth Theories -- Truth Value -- Type/Token -- Universal Grammar -- Use/Mention -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language to reflect the full range of approaches and modes of thought. Each entry includes a brief description of the idea, an account of its development, and its impact on the field of language study. The book is written in an accessible style with clear descriptions of technical terms, guides to further reading, and extensive cross-referencing between entries. A useful additional feature of this book is that it is cross-referenced throughout with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh, 2005), revealing significant connections and continuities in the two related disciplines. Ideas covered range from Sense Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic, through Generative Semantics, Cognitivism, and Conversation Analysis, to Political Correctness, Deconstruction, and Corpora. Key FeaturesThe only single-volume reference book to focus specifically on ideas from both linguistics and the philosophy of languageAccessibly written for use at all levels, including undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, and other general readers in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of languageExtensively cross-referenced both within itself and with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language to provide a unique reference resource. ERRATUMThe publisher and editors of Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language wish to apologise for the errors of fact which they mistakenly introduced into the entries on Innateness and on Truth Values in this volume, errors which were neither originated nor seen by the authors, respectively Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta and Stephen McLeod. The corrected and author-approved entry on Innateness is printed here.InnatenessThe claim that some aspects of linguistic competence are genetically specified rather than learnt through experience. This claim has been driving research in generative linguistics and language acquisition since the late 1950s.See also: Acceptability/Grammaticality; Continuity; Mentalism; Transformational-Generative Grammar; Universal GrammarKey Thinkers: Chomsky, Noam; Descartes, René; PlatoNoam Chomsky proposed that humans possess domain- and species-specific knowledge of the structure of possible languages, which enables children to acquire language with the speed, efficiency and uniformity that they do. This view can be traced back to Platonic philosophy and Cartesian cognitivism. Opponents of this view claim that language acquisition is innately constrained but only by the same mechanisms that underlie general cognitive ability. In other words, although it is uncontroversial that linguistic development is innately constrained, exactly what is innate is still a matter of debate.The argument that has most forcefully been used in support of the position that we are born with innate knowledge of linguistic constraints and principles is the poverty of the stimulus argument (Chomsky 1980: 34):1. Language is a complex system that could only be acquired through experience if negative evidence was available (that is, information about what sequences are grammatically illicit).2. Children only ever have access to positive evidence (information about grammatical sentences).3. Despite this, children successfully acquire language.If one accepts these premises, one has to conclude that humans are genetically hard-wired for language: children are born equipped with Universal Grammar (Chomsky 1981), containing information about universal linguistic principles which enable children to form specific hypotheses about the structure of the language they are learning. The proposed ex Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Language and languages Philosophy Encyclopedias. Language and languages Philosophy. Linguistics Encyclopedias. Linguistics. Language & Linguistics. 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Key FeaturesThe only single-volume reference book to focus specifically on ideas from both linguistics and the philosophy of languageAccessibly written for use at all levels, including undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, and other general readers in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of languageExtensively cross-referenced both within itself and with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language to provide a unique reference resource. ERRATUMThe publisher and editors of Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language wish to apologise for the errors of fact which they mistakenly introduced into the entries on Innateness and on Truth Values in this volume, errors which were neither originated nor seen by the authors, respectively Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta and Stephen McLeod. 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In other words, although it is uncontroversial that linguistic development is innately constrained, exactly what is innate is still a matter of debate.The argument that has most forcefully been used in support of the position that we are born with innate knowledge of linguistic constraints and principles is the poverty of the stimulus argument (Chomsky 1980: 34):1. Language is a complex system that could only be acquired through experience if negative evidence was available (that is, information about what sequences are grammatically illicit).2. Children only ever have access to positive evidence (information about grammatical sentences).3. 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