Language is perhaps the most interesting entity that mankind has ever come across. Hockett made significant contributions to structural linguistics, as well as the study of native american, chinese, and fijian languages. Hockett graduated from yale in 1939, and later taught at both cornell and rice. His many books included a course in modern linguistics 1955. Use the link below to share a fulltext version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Box 3 preface for the chinese translation of a course in modern linguistics, 19841985 box 3 notes. This college text book, first published in 1955, is the best example of bloomfieldian descriptive and structural linguistics. Noam chomsky, charles hockett, and the politics of behaviorism, 19551965 gregory radick, university of leeds abstract.
Course in modern linguistics hardcover 1 october 1958 by charles f. Mar 18, 2020 hockett famously rejected chomskian notions of hardwired language acquisition, asserting that one cannot study syntax separate from hkckett. The study of language must begin with certain idea about language. Gregory radick, the unmaking of a modern synthesis. Strongly influenced by the work of leonard bloomfield, he was widely considered bloomfields chief disciple, and the most prominent explicator and elaborator of bloomfields works gair 7. Hockett and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Greenberg, columbia university in view of the paucity of textbooks in linguistics and the reputation of hockett as a leading scholar in this field, one approaches this volume with considerable expectation. He represents the postbloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as distributionalism or taxonomic structuralism. A textbook on all aspects of linguistics written in e. Hockett, known to friends, students, and colleagues as chas, died on november 3, 2000, at the age of 84. Linguistics even the nonchomskian types have gone way past this work. The work of chomsky, harris, and lees on generative and transformational grammar appeared too late to be incorporated into the book. Hockett was considered by many to be the brightest young contributor to linguistic theory in the framework of structural linguistics, to which he contributed a number of basic concepts and issues.
Purva upadhyay marked it as toread dec 31, charles hockett can be viewed as the bloomfield of the s. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Hockett is the author of a course in modern linguistics 4. A course in modern linguistics hockett 1958 language. Charles hockett, 84, linguist with an anthropological view. Charles hockett was an american linguist and anthropologist, who lived from 1916 to 2000. Hockett on the development of american linguistics has been. A course in modern linguistics charles f hockett on free shipping on qualifying offers. Aug 21, 2019 a course in modern linguistics by charles f. A course in modern linguistics by hockett charles f abebooks. Charles francis hockett january 17, 1916 november 3, 2000 was an american linguist who developed many influential ideas in american structuralist linguistics. Charles hockett can be viewed as the bloomfield of the s. Charles francis hockett was a linguist best known for his contribution to structural linguistics.
Sep 09, 2019 a course in modern linguistics by charles f. He was born in columbus, ohio, on january 17, 1916, the fourth child of homer carey hockett, who taught american history at the ohio state university, and amy francisco hockett. Scott catledge rated it it was amazing apr 09, this book is not yet featured on listopia. Start studying charles hockett s 16 design features of language. The book covers a wider range of topics than any other recent work in english. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Hockett author see all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Hockett was the goldwin smith professor of anthropology and linguistics at cornell university. In a course in modern linguistics, hockett doesnt refer to these properties as design features of language but calls them the key properties of language. In criticizing hockett on grammar, chomsky came to engage gradu. Productivity novel utterances can be made and understood. Hockett originally thought that the remaining features were exclusively human. Charles hocketts 16 design features of language quizlet. One particularly influential set of answers was provided by the linguist charles hockett, who refers to the things all languages have in common as the design features of language.
Hockett considered bloom field his master, and referred to his own influential 1958 work a course in modern linguistics as a commentary on. A familiar story about midtwentiethcentury american psychology tells of the abandonment of behaviorism for cognitive science. Hockett famously rejected chomskian notions of hardwired language acquisition, asserting that one cannot study syntax separate from hkckett. Charles francis hockett the book covers a wider range of topics than any other recent work in english. Buy course in modern linguistics book online at low prices in.
Regatta marked it as toread sep 20, amazon drive cloud storage from amazon. Displacement you can talk about something not immediately present at a distance, or in the past. A course in modern linguistics by hockett, charles francis. Charles hockett can be viewed as the bloomfield of the 1950s.
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