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SKU:JU030BK13YZS4NAFAMZ
Model:9780826473851
Author:Sampson

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Jumia's Description

  • Paperback - Number of Pages: 240 pages
  • Dimensions: 152 x 232 x 22mm - 358.34g
  • Publication date: 15 May 2005
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom

"Now we have a much revised, corrected and expanded version which answers Sampson's many critics and makes ever clearer the fact that all the Chomsky and Pinker theories are not nearly as well supported as most psychologists and linguists seem to imagine. Sampson has a sharp eye for scholarly fudging of facts, illogical arguments, and towering theories tottering on weak foundations. At the very least Sampson's no-nonsense book, remarkable for its lucidity and readability in a field not notable for these virtues, forces upon us a recognition of the parlous state of a lot of linguistic argument and compels us to return the Scottish verdict of "not Proven." We realize that in linguistics the problem is not so much what we do not know as that much of what we pretend to know is simply not supported by sufficient evidence. Sampson may not bring down the temple of a false god but he has most certainly shaken the pillars. Anyone interested in language and culture will find the book captivating...

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