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Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1986. The politics of linguistics. University of Chicago Press. xii + 171 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This book deals with the political dimensions of linguistics. The chapters respectively comment on: the study of language; the rise of autonomous linguistics; structural linguistics; the Chomskyan Revolution; the opposition to autonomous linguistics and thoughts on the autonomy controversy.
