LINGUIST List 8.1766

Tue Dec 9 1997

Books: Available for Review: Philosophy of Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

Directory

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The books listed below are in the LINGUIST office and now
available for review. If you are interested in reviewing
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PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY OF LINGUISTICS

Taylor, Talbot (1997) Theorizing Language. Amsterdam: Pergamon Books 
	(Elsevier Science Ltd)

Theorizing Language presents an original perspective on the
fundamental and methodological issues raised by inquiry into language.
The central theme is that language is an essentially reflexive
phenomenon. We make language what it is for us - we give it a
recognizable form and use - by making language itself the subject of
ordinary reflexive discourse: that is, by characterizing it, explaining it,
categorizing it, criticizing it, evaluating it, qualifying it, prescribing it,
etc. Language theory must recognize itself as merely a derivative (albeit
culturally authoritative) form of reflexive discourse.

The following contributing LINGUIST publishers have made their backlists available on the World Wide Web:

• Blackwells
• Cascadilla Press
• Cornell University Linguistics Dept.
• CSLI Publications
• Garland Publishing
• Holland Academic Graphics
• Irvine Linguistics Students Association
• John Benjamins
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• MIT Working papers in Linguistics
• Mouton de Gruyter
• U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association
• Pacific Linguistics Publications
• Routledge
• Summer Institute of Linguistics