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Blackwell, Oxford
1998
570, xv Pages
ISBN 9780631208907
Provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic). This volume contains many expository and exegetic quotations, together with critiques of theoretical positions and, sometimes, of academic behavior.
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Seuren, P. (1998). Western linguistics: An historical introduction, Blackwell, Oxford.
Table of Contents
The truth and fairness of historical descriptions
Seuren Pieter
Descriptive explanations
Seuren Pieter
Historical interpretations
Seuren Pieter
The meaning of texts
Seuren Pieter
The truth of cultural history
Seuren Pieter
Causal, contrastive and functional explanations
Seuren Pieter
Explaining individual actions
Seuren Pieter
Explaining collective actions
Seuren Pieter
Explaining social changes
Seuren Pieter
Should we privilege the individual?
Seuren Pieter
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