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Linguistic research is a term that covers a wide variety of activities in many different fields, but despite the quantity of this work and an accumulation of results, we seem no further toward a to...tal theory of language than ever before. In the 1950's and 1960's, linguistic theory was dominated by the ideas of loam Chomsky, who is heard in this programme. But research workers in the late 1960's and in the seventies seem to have found that their work was turning up results that in many cases lay outside Cliomskyan theory, which relates mainly to syntax ie. the grammatical structure of languages. The research workers on the programme look forward to some new theoretical advance, although they don't know what this will be. Professor Chomsky is still interested mainly in further refinements of his transformatical grammars.
Linguistic research is a term that covers a wide variety of activities in many different fields, but despite the quantity of this work and an accumulation of results, we seem no further toward a to...tal theory of language than ever before. In the 1950's and 1960's, linguistic theory was dominated by the ideas of loam Chomsky, who is heard in this programme. But research workers in the late 1960's and in the seventies seem to have found that their work was turning up results that in many cases lay outside Cliomskyan theory, which relates mainly to syntax ie. the grammatical structure of languages. The research workers on the programme look forward to some new theoretical advance, although they don't know what this will be. Professor Chomsky is still interested mainly in further refinements of his transformatical grammars.
| Module code and title: | E263, Language in use |
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| Item code: | E263; 11 |
| Recording date: | 1980-11-22 |
| First transmission date: | 05-07-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:12 |
| Note: | Also available on audiocassette 480 |
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| Producer: | Meg Sheffield |
| Contributors: | Noam Chomsky; Gordon Wells; Cathy Urwin |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Language Acquisition Device; Linguistic Research; Semantics; Syntax; The rise of pragmatics; Transformational grammar |
| Master spool number: | TLN52950H956 |
| Production number: | TLN52950H956 |
| Available to public: | no |
