| Description |
x, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword, by James D. McCawley -- 1. Prologue: The TOPIC COMMENT column -- Part I - Fashions and Tendencies -- 2. Watch out for the current -- 3. The stranger in the bar -- 4. If it's Tuesday, this must be glossematics -- 5. The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry -- 6. Chomsky on the Enterprise -- 7. Formal linguistics meets the Boojum -- Part II - Publication and Damnation -- 8. Stalking the perfect journal -- 9. Punctuation and human freedom -- 10. A guest of the State -- 11. Seven deadly sins in journal publishing -- 12. The linguistics of defamation -- 13. Trench-mouth comes to Trumpington Street -- 14. Here come the linguistic fascists -- Part III - Unscientific Behavior -- 15. The revenge of the methodological moaners -- 16. Footloose and context-free -- 17. Nobody goes around at LSA meetings offering odds -- 18. Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome -- 19. The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax -- Part IV - Linguistic Fantasies -- 20. No trips to Stockholm -- 21. A memo from the Vice Chancellor -- 22. Some lists of things about books -- 23. The incident of the node vortex problem -- 24. Epilogue: The final curtain -- Appendix: Original publication details -- and acknowledgments -- Index |
| Analysis |
Linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Language and languages.
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Linguistics.
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| LC no. |
90011286 |
| ISBN |
0226685330 (alk. paper) |
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0226685349 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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