Sponsor |  fassin | Feb 15, 2006 12:39pm | I've been taking a lot of linguistics recently and a hint is to go to college and university websites and see what literature they use for teaching.
Chomsky although being basic is considered antique by modern standards, but I guess it depends on what camp you're in. I'm a supporter of the anthropological and discourse oriented view of linguistics and I think traditional cognitive linguistic theory is poorly rooted in reality, there are just too many things it cannot explain. Well, I better get back to reading Herbert Clarke... got to prepare for a seminar tomorrow. Ciao. |
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Sponsor | | jaundisElf | Apr 13, 2006 9:22am | | Wikipedia has a extremley good pages about vast areas of lingustics I'd reccomend it highly as a free resource to help you make decisions on what areas of linguistics interest you the most |
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|  CalvinIncarnate | Jul 5, 2007 8:45am | imagefalling, can u help us help u -
we know u don't want a totally general layman's intro to linguistics;
what DO u want?
What areas within linguistics intrigue you most?
E.g.
morphology; syntax ('grammar');
phonetics and phonology;
historical linguistics; language description;
psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics;
computational linguistics.
Linguistics is a broad discipline.
Be aware that even in sciences, and probably more so in social sciences,
there can be factions and fads besides naturally genuine disagreement,
so you need to choose texts with some idea of
which theories are generally accepted as 'true'
on the basis of best research,
rather than what is palatable, political, popular - or attractive.
E.g.
while the basics of Chomsky's syntax is generally accepted and integrated
into mainstream teaching of linguistics,
not everyone agrees with him on everything
(certainly, not when he ranges into politics! -
tho' I could be labelled 'Left' myself :)
Some of his work is a bit old -
not that there's any necessary relation
between the age and truthfulness of any theory
(we're not tradition-worshippers, I hope)
but one needs to take into account what has transpired since,
and how that strengthens or weakens elements of previous models.
Science (hopefully) improves its understanding of reality
by progressive revision - and the occasional 'quantum jump' in paradigm! |
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