Refurbishing Our Foundations: Elementary Linguistics From An Advanced Point Of View by Charles F. Hockett

Refurbishing Our Foundations: Elementary Linguistics From An Advanced Point Of View

Charles F. Hockett

181 pages first pub 1987 (view editions)

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This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters f...

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