I. LINGUISTICS IS NOT PSYCHOLOGY; II. POSITIONS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY; III. ''PHILOSOPHICAL'' ARGUMENTS FOR THE REPRESENTATIONAL THESIS; IV. THE RELATION OF LANGUAGE TO THOUGHT; V. LANGUAGE USE AND ACQUISITION; Glossary of Named or Numbered Items; References; Index
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The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a 'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is aboutlinguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speak
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