Rules and Representations

Columbia Classics Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-231-13271-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Reihe: Columbia Classics in Philosophy

As Norbert Hornstein writes in his foreword, "it underestimates Chomsky's impact in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology to describe it as immense." In Rules and Representations, Noam Chomsky lays out many of the concepts that have made his approach to linguistics and human cognition so instrumental to our understanding of language.

In this influential and controversial work Chomsky draws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in language. He arrives at his well-known position that there is a universal grammar, genetically determined, structured in the human mind, and common to all human languages. Aside from his examination of the various principles of the universal grammar its "rules and representations" Chomsky considers the biological basis of language capabilities and the possibility of studying mental structures and capacities in the manner of the natural sciences. Finally, he also explores whether there may be similar "grammars" of perception, art, human nature, scientific reasoning, and the unconscious.

Based on Chomsky's lively 1978 Woodbridge Lectures, this edition, first published in 1980, contains revised versions of the original lectures and two new essays. It also includes an extensive foreword by Norbert Hornstein, discussing Chomsky's ideas and their wide-ranging impact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chomsky, Noam

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hornstein, Norbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Norbert Hornstein    Preface    Part I    1. Mind and Body    2. Structures, Capacities, and Conventions     3. Knowledge of Grammar    4. Some Elements of Grammar    Part II    5. On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities   6. Language and Unconscious Knowledge    Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor of linguistics at MIT. He is the author of many books on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, and politics. Norbert Hornstein is professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several books and the coeditor (with Louise M. Antony) of Chomsky and His Critics.