Linguistic Theory - The Discourse of Fundamental Works

This is a major survey of the leading work of the most important twentieth-century linguisticians, including de Saussure, Firth, Chomsky, Halliday and van Dijk. An understanding of past theories is crucial to studying modern linguistics, and this volume carefully presents both the range of theories as they developed chronologically, and a historical perspective on that development.

List of contents

1. Linguistic theory as discourse
2. Ferdinand de Saussure
3. Edward Sapir
4. Leonard Bloomfield
5. Kenneth Pike
6. Louis Hjelmslev
7. Noam Chomsky
8. J.R.Firth
9. Michael Halliday
10. Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch
11. Peter Hartmann
12. Linguistics versus language

Index of terms
Index of names

About the author

Robert De Beaugrande

Summary

This is a major survey of the leading work of the most important twentieth-century linguisticians, including de Saussure, Firth, Chomsky, Halliday and van Dijk. An understanding of past theories is crucial to studying modern linguistics, and this volume carefully presents both the range of theories as they developed chronologically, and a historical perspective on that development.

Product details

• Authors: Beaugrande, Robert de Beaugrande, Robert-Alain De Beaugrande
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138157446
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15744-6
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Longman Linguistics Library; Longman Linguistics Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language and Linguistics