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Description

1. xix, 594 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. 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

1. 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

1. Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 69.

Subject

1. Linguistics > United States > History
2. Linguistics > History
3. Linguistics
4. Taalwetenschap
5. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. An earlier version was presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--1979.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-576) and index.