Grammar West to East by Edward McDonald

Grammar West to East by Edward McDonald

Author:Edward McDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811375972
Publisher: Springer Singapore


As he sums up, in a statement that recalls Saussure’s dictum that in linguistics “it is the viewpoint that creates the object [of study]” (CGL: 8): “The identity of the research procedure carries a greater weight than the coherence of heterogeneous objects of investigation” (Jankowsky 2001: 1356). Below we explore some of these differing conceptions of language in more detail under the labels of “language as organism”, “language as physiological and psychological phenomenon” and “language as social institution”.language as organism : August Schleicher (1821–1868)



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