Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)

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Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge? Starting from basic concepts, Chomsky sketches the present state of our answers to these questions and offers prospects for future research. Much of the discussion revolves around our understanding of basic human nature (that we are unique in being able to produce a rich, highly articulated, and complex language on the basis of quite rudimentary data), and it is here that Chomsky's ideas on language relate to his ideas on politics.The initial versions of these lectures were given at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 1986. A parallel set of lectures on contemporary political issues given at the same time has been published by South End Press under the title On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures.

Language and Problems of Knowledge is sixteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Jay Keyser.

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Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics.

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Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.

Series: Current Studies in Linguistics (Book 16)
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Publisher: The MIT Press (August 27, 1987)
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An outstanding introduction to linguistics ...

April 24, 2013

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This is the best introduction to Chomsky's linguistics theory for the lay person. And everybody ought to know this much about human language!

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Excellent speedy shipping and the book is outstanding. This book is to be part of the research for my Masters thesis. It is exciting and full of linguistic mini explosions. Linguistics is my passion!

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Chomsky explores Spanish morphemes

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This book might be a useful exploration of Spanish morphemes, but Noam Chomsky is overly fond of his own theory, which is often violated by the examples.

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Great Book

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Reasonably quick read. Restates language as a side-effect of the brain's syntaxial approach in expressing thought.

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Chomsky's not the Genius he's made out to be

August 11, 2003

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Noam Chomsky insists that the mind-body problem can't be solved or formulated and that theories of meaning remain unsuccessful. Apparently he still perpetuates the extraordinary ignorance of Aristotilian/Thomistic philosophy that he has previously been so accused along with the rest of modern philosophy.
For example, in Mortimer Adler's 1967 work of genius, "The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes", Adler has this to say about the mind-body argument of Aristotle and Aquinas on p.223, "Because the moderate immaterialism of Aristotle and Aquinas is totally neglected or ignored in the contemporary discussion, we cannot look for criticisms of it, or objections to it, in current philosophical literature."
More explicitly, Adler has this to say in the notes on p.329 about theories of Meaning - "The Institute For Philosophical Research is currently engaged in the study of the whole discussion of language and thought and especially the problem of meaning. We have examined most of the major twentieth-century treatments of this subject. We have found only two contemporary writers who indicate some awareness of the correct version of the triadic theory of meaning, J.N. Findlay and R. Chisholm. Others among contemporaries who comment on the triadic theory are either unacquainted with the Aristotilian version or so misunderstand it that they treat that version and the Lockean version as if they were identical, Ogden and Richards. The rest manifest no awareness at all of the triadic theory in its correct version and, in addition, do not seem to understand the problem that it tried to solve and succeeded in solving." To my knowledge Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Liebniz, Spinoza, Hume, Berkley, Kant and Comte are all on the list of ingorant as well.
My Recommendations are Mortimer Adler's books "The Difference of Man and The Difference it Makes" (1967), and "Some Questions About Language" (1976 - without question the best book ever written on the subject), and Jacques Maritain's "Degrees of Knowledge" (1959), and John Deely's "What Distinguishes Human Understanding?" (2002). Other geniuses like Etienne Gilson are to be read by anybody interested in learning about philosophy.

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