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On the Notion ‘ Showing Something ’ 1
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Carlson, Greg |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | In the final month of the last year of the last century (and the last millennium), certain predictable tasks came up, such as constructing 'greatest X of the century' lists. For example, the March 29 issue of Time magazine listed 'the century's greatest minds' ('scientists and thinkers' it said), and I noted that no linguists appeared on their list for their accomplishments. It's not that the area of language itself was neglected. Wittgenstein and Piaget appeared, but names like Sapir, Bloomfield, de Saussure, to name just a few, were absent (though Chomsky rated a small blurb and dated picture embedded within the Piaget article). And, it certainly had been an exciting century for linguistics. So, whatever it is we had done has, apparently, not sprung as brightly on the popular imagination as the work of Freud, Einstein, Fermi, Keynes, and the others. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/people/faculty/carlson_greg/assets/pdf/other/explanation.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ling.rochester.edu/people/carlson/download/other/explanation.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ling.rochester.edu/people/carlson/download/other/explanation.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
