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Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics) Perfect paperback - 1987

by Chomsky, Noam

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The MIT Press, 1987. Perfect Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)
  • Author Chomsky, Noam
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1987
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0262530708I4N10
  • ISBN 9780262530705 / 0262530708
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.37 x 0.49 in (20.24 x 13.64 x 1.24 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Linguistics, Language and languages
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87003953
  • Dewey Decimal Code 410
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge? Starting from basic concepts, Chomsky sketches the present state of our answers to these questions and offers prospects for future research. Much of the discussion revolves around our understanding of basic human nature (that we are unique in being able to produce a rich, highly articulated, and complex language on the basis of quite rudimentary data), and it is here that Chomsky's ideas on language relate to his ideas on politics.The initial versions of these lectures were given at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 1986. A parallel set of lectures on contemporary political issues given at the same time has been published by South End Press under the title On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures.

Language and Problems of Knowledge is sixteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Jay Keyser.

First line

The topics I will address in these five lectures on language and problems of knowledge are intricate and complex and at the same time quite wide ranging in scope.

From the rear cover

Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics.

About the author

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.

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