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The Linguistics Wars Randy Allen Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

CHAPTER3The Chomskyan RevolutionIn the late forties . What year would it be if you read a new piece by George Lakoff skewering Ray Jackendoff? In some circles, Chomsky is an extremely well regarded philosopher/linguist/cognitive scientist who is often pointed to by left-of-center types looking to add academic credibility to their argument. I think that we are still involved in language wars today when it comes to slang. On top of the linguistics stuff, I am also really into languages. At the beginning of the fifties confidence was running high. It seemed to many that the conquest of syntax finally lay open before the profession. Linguistics, as a discipline, has been fundamentally shaped by the so-called “linguistics wars,” which since the 1960s have pitted generativists against functionalists. The guilty pleasure aspect is entertaining, while the irreconcilable relationships are concerning. She referred to the defined pronunciation of some announcers and the linguistic slapstick used by many comedians of the day. Try 2008, in a preprint for a book review for American Scientist, here. Of domestic and international law, and claiming the authority to launch drone strikes and send troops into various countries without new congressional authorization ensures that the Obama administration will continue the perpetual war on terror but under new legal and linguistic packaging. I'm both attracted to and repelled by linguistic wars. I love learning them and fucking around with words in general. George Lakoff is famous for being one of the founding fathers of cognitive linguistics, for battling Noam Chomsky, and for arguing that using the right metaphors is the key to winning a political debate. I studied French for many years (though, admittedly, I've forgotten quite a bit), I studied a little Russian in college, and Koine Greek in graduate school. But the speech was full of clever sophistry and Orwellian doublespeak that made it seem like the perpetual war was ending just as it's being institutionalized and normalized. Findings show that religious differences are a social cleavage more important than linguistic differences in the development of civil war, and being a consociational democracy significantly reduces the incidence of ethnic civil war.