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The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a 'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is about linguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speakers are largely ignorant of their language; that speakers' intuitions do not reflect information supplied by the language faculty and are not the main evidence for grammars; that the rules of 'Universal Grammar' are largely, if not entirely, innate structure rules of thought; indeed, that there is little or nothing to the language faculty. Devitt's controversial theses will prove highly stimulating to anyone working on language and the mind

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: Ignorance of Language
• Author: Michael Devitt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780199250974
• ISBN: 0199250979
• ID: 04530350
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 235 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 2008

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