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Pragmatics and Semantics : : An Empiricist Theory / / Carol A. Kates.

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What is the nature of communicative competence? Carol Kates addresses this crucial linguistic question, examining and finally rejecting the rationalistic theory proposed by Noam Chomsky and elaborated by Jerrold J. Katz, among others. She sets forth three reasons why the rationalistic model shoudl b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Kates, Carol A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS: THE NATURE OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
  • 1. Transformational-Generative Grammar
  • 2. Semantic Grammar and Communicative Competence
  • 3. Acquisition of Lexical Paradigms
  • 4. Acquisition of Grammatical Paradigms
  • 5. Pragmatic Structures
  • 6. Linguistic Creativity
  • PART II. AN EMPIRICIST THEORY OF UTTERANCE MEANING: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
  • 7. Phenomenological Empiricisim
  • 8. An Empiricist Account of Universals
  • 9. Universal Grammar
  • 10. The Authority of Logical Truth
  • 11. The Constitution of Novel Utterance Meanings: The Metaphorical Function
  • 12. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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