From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 05:11:24 BST
Hi Arlo,
It's me again...
Just curious... Are the better more explanatory theories radically
divergent from the ideas of Universal Grammer, or do they build upon
that framework, as is suggested in the article I quoted?
Anyway, I guess, we should expect ideas to move away from their
roots, in time. In today's exponential interchange of ideas, 40
years sounds like a pretty good run.
Best,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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On 3 May 2005 at 21:35, Arlo J. Bensinger wrote:
The language center I work for (the Center for Advanced Languauge Proficiency
Education & Research) works closely with the Applied Linguistics program at
Penn State. Chomsky may well be the "American tradition" of linguistics, but
many linguists stateside are starting to pay more attention to Halliday's
"Systemic Functional Linguistics" (who could well be the Australian tradition)
and build on the work of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory (in such fields as
socio-pragmatics and sociolinguistics). Chomsky's work may be profound, but
there are better, more explanatory theories that are emerging (statement of
opinion :-)). My personal feeling is that one day soon, Chomskian linguistics
will be akin to Newtonian physics. Not discredited, and not a mis-step, but
outdated as better theories (I personally favor Vygotsky's SCT) are developed.
But, I am not expert linguist, and at present there are still many who adhere
to Chomsky's views on linguistics. Just my two cents...
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