Landmarks in linguistic thought II : the Western tradition in the twentieth century - Joseph, John Earl; Love, Nigel; Taylor, Talbot J. (London : Routledge, 2001)
Spair on language, culture, and personality -- Jakobson and structuralism -- Orwell on language and politics -- Whorf on language and thought -- Firth on language and context -- Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations -- Austin on language as action -- Skinner on verbal behavior -- Chomsky on language as biology -- Labov on linguistic variation -- Goffman on the communicating self -- Bruner on the child's passport into language -- Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing -- Harris on linguistics without languages -- Kanzi on human language
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Linguistics -- History -- 20th century