Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and His Critics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Roy Harris's thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the meaningful integration of communicative behaviour, have made him one of the most controversial figures in the field today. In the essays in this volume Naomi S. Baron, Bob Borsley, Philip Carr, David Fleming, Rom Harré, Anthony Holiday, John E. Joseph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, David R. Olson, Trevor Pateman, John Sören Pettersson and John R. Taylor offer a critical examination of various aspects and implications of Harris's views, in reponse to which Harris contributes an article that both engages with his critics and develops some of the major themes of his work. LINGUISTICS INSIDE OUT ROY HARRIS AND HIS CRITICS......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 Copyright page......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 9 Dedication......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Roy Harris: Publications 1956-1995......Page 16 Prologue......Page 30 1. Introduction: Idols of the market......Page 38 2. Surrogationalism and nomenclaturism......Page 42 3. Telementation......Page 51 4. Conclusion: The "Key to All Mythologies"......Page 67 1. The "language myth"......Page 71 2. Telementation......Page 74 3. Fixed codes......Page 76 4. The socio-historical roots of formal linguistics......Page 80 5. Alphabetic literacy and linguistic theory......Page 81 6. Generative grammar as a prescriptive enterprise......Page 85 7.Harris's empiricism......Page 88 8. Integrational linguistics......Page 91 9. Concluding remarks......Page 93 1. Introduction......Page 94 2. The occult nature of the telementational thesis......Page 95 3.1 The Minimalist Programme......Page 97 3.2 Type, token and telementation in PF......Page 98 3.3 Articulatory intentions, phonological "events" and PF as instructions......Page 101 3.4 Production, generation, sentence and utterance......Page 105 3.5 Phonological derivations, "externalisation" and "manifestation"......Page 109 4. Realism and "linguistic" behaviour in generative linguistics......Page 111 4 Phonography: Setting a Term to the Evolution of Writing......Page 113 5 A New Mentality......Page 128 1.......Page 135 2.......Page 139 3.......Page 149 4.......Page 155 5.......Page 162 A glimpse of biography......Page 165 Descriptive and auxiliary formalisms......Page 166 Tools and rules......Page 168 Boundaries and "agreements"......Page 169 Breaking with the Tractatus......Page 171 Nothing coerces us......Page 172 Rides and practices......Page 174 Grounding skills......Page 175 Saying as expressing......Page 176 Is there an ur-language......Page 177 1. Introduction......Page 180 2. Malinowsk's "context of situation": new insight or bad science?......Page 184 3. Meaning for whom? Linguists' "context" / users' "context"......Page 186 Language Orienteering......Page 187 Language Users and Language Analysis......Page 189 Mode of Representation......Page 190 In-Group / Out-Group......Page 192 Domain of Communication......Page 194 Lexico-Grammatical Profile......Page 196 Verbs of Motion......Page 197 Number......Page 198 Gender......Page 199 Grammatical Subjects......Page 200 The Problem of Translation......Page 201 Computers and Translation......Page 202 Cultural Challenges to Machine Translation......Page 204 Politeness Indicators on Japanese Nouns: -san, o-, noun pairs......Page 206 Politeness Indicators on Japanese Verbs: Plain, Humble, Polite......Page 207 6. Conclusions......Page 209 9 Is Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis an "Integrational" Account of Language?......Page 211 Harrisian integrationism......Page 212 Ethnomethodological conversation analysis......Page 214 2. Language from the user's point of view......Page 217 3. Data and theory in the analysis of language......Page 219 4. Structure and occasion in social action......Page 224 5. Language and temporality......Page 229 6. Conclusion: Towards an integrational rhetoric?......Page 233 1. Introduction......Page 237 2. The multiple-trace model......Page 238 3. Some problems......Page 241 4. Language knowledge and the multiple-trace model......Page 243 5. Cognitive grammar......Page 251 6. The fixed-code fallacy......Page 252 11 Language, Art and Kant......Page 255 Introduction......Page 258 1. The study of language......Page 260 2. On linguistic theory......Page 266 3. Far more and far less......Page 270 4. The telementational model......Page 272 5. Fixed codes......Page 282 6. Making communicational sense......Page 283 7. Language and metalanguage......Page 287 8. Language, speech and writing......Page 289 9. Verbal behaviour......Page 294 10. Language, linguistics and science......Page 302 11. Language and rules......Page 306 12. Language, art and creativity......Page 308 13. Context......Page 311 14. Cotemporality......Page 324 15. Towards an integrational linguistics......Page 329 Epilogue......Page 340 References......Page 348 Index......Page 368 1. The Language Myth Myth: Roy Harris's Red Herrings / John E. Joseph -- 2. The Language Muddle: Roy Harris And Generative Grammar / Robert D. Borsley And Frederick J. Newmeyer -- 3. Telementation And Generative Linguistics / Philip Carr -- 4. Phonography: Setting A Term To The Evolution Of Writing / John Soren Pettersson -- 5. A New Mentality / David R. Olson -- 6. Science And Significance: Making Sense Of Wittgenstein's Ways Of Seeing / Anthony Holiday -- 7. Rules And Algorithms: Wittgenstein On Language / Rom Harre -- 8. Contextualizing Context: From Malinowski To Machine Translation / Naomi S. Baron -- 9. Is Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis An Integrational Account Of Language? / David Fleming -- 10. Linguistic Theory And The Multiple-trace Model Of Memory / John R. Taylor -- 11. Language, Art And Kant / Trevor Pateman -- 12. From An Integrational Point Of View / Roy Harris. Edited By George Wolf, Nigel Love. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This volume covers such areas in linguistic theory as: Roy Harris and generative grammar; telementation and generative linguistics; making sense of Wittgenstein's ways of seeing; ethnomethodological conversation analysis; the multiple-trace model of memory; and language, art and Kant.