Linguaggio e problemi della conoscenza

I bought this book for the title and then was delighted to discover it was the first half of Noam's Managua lectures, the second half being On Ideology and Power, one of my favorite books of all time. It was a very interesting read. The concept of a genetic predisposition for learning language is in Leggi tutto

"Language and Problems of Knowledge" is a mixed bag. It's equal parts the development of a theory of language and knowledge, linguistic analysis of grammar and sentences, and very Chomskian rants on philosophy, science, history, and even politics. While there are great parts, the book is overall onl Leggi tutto

عنوان الكتاب اكثر تشويقاً من محتواه! ليس لضعفٍ في المحتوى، والذي بدوره غني جدا، لكن بسبب صعوبة السؤال! كيف تسنى لبني البشر ان يعرفوا ما يعرفوه على الرغم من قصر تجربتهم في الكون؟ ما الذي يمكّن الانسان من ان يبدع وينتج؟ الأول من السؤالين يسمى بمشكلة افلاطون والآخر بمشكلة ديكارت!! الدكتور تشومسكي يستنتج Leggi tutto

Not only was this my first work by Chomsky, but it was also the first real work in Linguistics I have read, and I feel blown away by how much I learned in just a series of lectures. Chomsky's focus on his "4 significant questions" regarding language are topics debated by philosophers since literally Leggi tutto

This is, without a doubt, the most interesting non-fiction I have ever read. For anyone planning on reading this, I must warn you that it is a fairly challenging prospect - especially if you've never been exposed to linguistics as a subject before. Following the line of thought in the third and four Leggi tutto

As a linguist since college, I’ve always admired Chomsky’s work from afar, not reading anything beyond a short biopic or excerpt until now. A good part of his explanations went over my head, but it’s mostly due to the facts that A.) I’m no longer in an academic setting in which I can break these down Leggi tutto

good introduction but can still be a bit confusing / require you to re-read some of the grammatical ideas twice or thrice. not sure how people got this first time in a lecture hall but hey. also the ending where chomsky starts to abandon language and just start talking politics is very chomsky but a Leggi tutto

HRV: Od kad sam odslušala Teoriju jezika prošle godine na prvom semestru (i prošla), te čula predavanje o Chomskyjevim transformacijama, postala sam fascinirana i htjela sam čitati njegova djela. Ovo je bilo interesantno štivo. ENG: Ever since taking my Linguistics class last year in my first semeste Leggi tutto

This is a very interesting book although a fair amount of it is beyond my understanding. I read a linguistics text prior to reading this, but it didn't help. My problems were due to my lack of knowledge of Spanish. Nevertheless, I believe I have a reasonable understanding of his universal grammar co Leggi tutto

sto leggendo talmente tanto Chomsky in questi giorni che sto iniziando a pensare che sta storia dell'innatismo sia vera