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Tag Archives: Structural Linguistics
Apostles of a new order: structural linguistics
The apostles of Structural Linguistics might still have confined their interests to the teaching of foreign languages had it not been for the extremely influential work of Professor Charles Carpenter Fries of the University of Michigan, a prolific writer who … Continue reading
say look: what’s that sound?
To begin with, the Structural Linguists concern themselves only with the spoken language. The generally low esteem with which they regard writing derives in part from the statistic that only about five per cent of the of the world’s approximately … Continue reading
usage is all that counts
From the study of primitive tongues, linguisticians dervied a rule: usage is all that counts… IN the United States the great anthropologist Franz Boaz of Columbia University made extensive studies between 1897 and 1908 of the languages of various American … Continue reading
structural linguistics: anarchy of the letters and words
…Far more baleful, however, than any of theo ther circumstances contributing to the demise of literacy and the degeneration of English can in some measure, significant measure seen in the abandonment of grammar in favor of what became known as … Continue reading
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