Cartesian Linguistics - A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

Door: Chomsky, Noam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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• Uitgever: Harper & Row
• Taal: Engels
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• Details: 1966, cloth hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket damped, age tanned, good copy
• Extra informatie: The term Cartesian linguistics was coined with the publication of Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought ('66), a book on linguistics by Noam Chomsky, written with the purpose of deepening "our understanding of the nature of language & the mental processes & structures that underlie its use & acquisition" (ix). Chomsky wished to shed light on these underlying structures of the human language, & subsequently whether one can infer the nature of an organism from its language (x). Cartesian linguistics refers to a form of linguistics developed during the time of René Descartes, a prominent 17th century philosopher whose ideas continue to influence modern philosophy. Cartesian Linguistics traces the development of linguistic theory from Descartes to Wilhelm von Humboldt, that is, from the period of the Enlightenment directly up to Romanticism (59). The central doctrine of Cartesian linguistics maintains that the general features of grammatical structure are common to all languages & reflect certain fundamental properties of mind (59). The book received mostly unfavorable reviews.
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