The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: Paul Hopper's Emergent Grammar Hypothesis Revisited  

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Weber, T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 2 (1997), page 177-196.
Fulltext: 19_02_Weber.pdf (1.55MB)

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In his programmatic paper on Emergent Grammar (1987, BLS 13, 139-157), Paul Hopper challenges the discipline of linguistics by characterizing linguistic structure as being temporal, deferred, emergent, and the study of language as a necessarily political and disputed activity. I show that Hopper's arguments reflect, in the realm of linguistics, the influence of Jacques Derrida's philosophical deconstructivism that in the past decades has had a major impact on many other disciplines ranging from literary criticism to ethnography. I further contrast the deconstructivist view of language with competence approaches to language such as those by Noam Chomsky and John Searle and argue that the former raises theoretical questions that the latter have not yet responded to,

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