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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinctdi Vyvyan Evans
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book aims to explicate the prevailing model of language acquisition (what the author, Vyvyan Evans, calls "language as instinct") and the language as use model for a lay audience. Evans suggests the prevailing model is proved false, misleading, or else it is unfalsifiable. However, Evans's somewhat too emphatic arguments suggest he is committed to an overly simple conception of science as if the scientific method adhered to a naive form of falsificationism identical to Karl Popper's view of valid science. The whole argument would have been more challenging and believable if Evans evinced sympathy for the "language instinct" model he denigrates as outmoded and dogmatic at every turn. ( ) A determined effort to "debunk" what Evans deems to be all the basic tenets of Chomskyan (and, imputedly, Pinkerian) linguistics -- innateness, universal grammar, etc. In place of the language-as-instinct idea, he argues, a language-as-use paradigm needs to be adopted. Perceiving his ideational enemies to be not just totally wrong but also arrogant and disrespectful, he exudes a fair degree of arrogance and disrespect himself. So the linguistics wars rage on, it seems. I suspect it's more likely that both sides are partly right than that one side is totally wrong. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn 'universal' grammar; that language is not autonomous but is closely related to other aspects of our mental lives; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world. Compellingly written and drawing on cutting-edge research, The Language Myth sets out a forceful alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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