| 词条 | Linguistics wars |
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Colloquially, the linguistics wars were a protracted academic dispute in American generative linguistics, stemming from a falling-out between Noam Chomsky and some of his early students and colleagues, which took place mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. OverviewThe debate began when linguists such as Paul Postal, "Haj" Ross, George Lakoff, and James McCawley—self-dubbed the "four horsemen of the Apocalypse"—proposed an alternative theory of generative semantics, which essentially flipped Chomsky's theory on its head by focusing on semantics rather than grammar as the basis of Chomsky's concept of deep structure. While Chomsky and other generative grammarians argued that meaning was derived from the underlying order of the words being used, the generative semanticists cited the meaning of the words as giving rise to their order.[1] Eventually, generative semantics spawned an alternative linguistic paradigm, known as cognitive linguistics, which attempts to correlate the understanding of language with the concepts of cognitive psychology, such as memory, perception and categorization. While generative semanticists operate on the premise that the mind has a unique and independent module for language acquisition, cognitive linguists deny this. Instead, they assert that the processing of linguistic phenomena is informed by conceptual deep structures and—more significantly—that the cognitive abilities used to process this data are similar to those used in other non-linguistic tasks. BookThe Linguistics Wars is the title of a 1993 book by Randy Allen Harris on the topic ({{ISBN|9780195098341}}). It touches on the issues of the dispute involving Chomsky and other significant individuals (Lakoff, Postal, etc.) and also highlights how certain theories evolved and which of their important features have influenced modern-day linguistic theories. See also
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Randy Allen|title=The Linguistics Wars|year=1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195098341|page=105}} {{Linguistics-stub}} 5 : Generative linguistics|1995 books|Ideological rivalry|Linguistic controversies|Noam Chomsky |
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