Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America
A social history
The history of linguistics in North America provides a continuum from isolated scholars to successful groups dominating entire disciplines. Although focused on groupings — both “invisible colleges” and readily visible institutions — Murray discusses those writing about language in society who were not participants in “theory groups” or “schools” both before and after the three central case studies. He provides a theory of social bases for claiming to be making “scientific revolution” in contrast to building on sound “traditions”, and suggests non-cognitive reasons for success in the often rhetorically violent contention of perspectives about language in North America during the last century and a half.
The book includes appendices explaining the methodology used, an extensive bibliography, and an index.
Table of Contents
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List of Tables | p. xiii
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List of Figures | p. xv
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Introduction | p. xvii
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1. Theory groups in science | p. 1
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2. Early work on American languages | p. 27
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3. Franz Boas and the Institutionalization of Academic Anthropology | p. 47
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4. Boas's students | p. 67
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5. Edward Sapir | p. 77
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6. Was Bloomfield a Bloomfieldian | p. 113
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7. Neo-Bloomfieldians | p. 137
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8. Structuralist Diversification during the 1950s | p. 185
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9. Transformational-Generative Grammar before the1964-66 Revelations | p. 225
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10. Language contact and early sociolinguistics | p. 249
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11. The Ethnography of Speaking | p. 289
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12. Related perspectives | p. 341
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13. Ethnosciene | p. 391
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14. The sociology of language | p. 419
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15. Permanent Chomskian civil war in linguistics | p. 431
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16. The third generation of University of California sociolinguists | p. 447
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17. The turn away from linguistic interest in contemporary American anthropology | p. 473
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18. Conclusions | p. 479
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An Appendix on Methods | p. 491
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Index of Names | p. 577
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