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The Linguistics Delusion

Geoffrey Sampson

出版	Equinox Publishing Limited, 2017
主題	Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN	17817957709781781795774
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CISonQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Linguistics is a subject which came to the fore only in the 1960s. It is founded on a fallacy. Linguistics claims to be 'the scientific study of language, ' but language behaviour is too open-ended and creative to be treated by the methods of science. In consequence, linguistic theories systematically distort the nature of language, and present a misleading picture of our human nature. Geoffrey Sampson shows how various traditions of linguistics, and their accounts of different aspects of language, are all infected by the delusion of scientism. And he offers positive examples of how language can be studied insightfully, once the scientistic delusion is given up.