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undemocratic to attack “incorrect” English
The Linguistic credo was that it was undemocratic to attack “incorrect” English… Leonard Bloomfield’s egalitarian theories of education, in essence, insisted that “correct” or “good” English was a form of social snobbery perpetuated by the “fanciful doctrine” swallowed by an … Continue reading
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Tagged André Kertész, Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield, Malcolm X, Zellig S. Harris
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structural linguistics: stone age language
…An abstruse discipline, based on Stone Age cultures is applied to our own language… The primary interest of the linguistician, however, is the sound of language; and it is in the field of phonetics- or, more specifically, phonemics, that Structural … 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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