Models of the human in twentieth-century linguistic theories: system, order, creativity

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Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: System and the Individual Speaker -- Chapter 2. Sassure: Langue as an autonomous system -- Chapter 3. Bloomfield: A grammar system -- Chapter 4. Chomsky: System and the ideal speaker-hearer -- Chapter 5. Labov: Systemic variation and knowledge -- Chapter 6. Bucholtz and Hall: System and identity -- Chapter 7. Haugen, Mulhausler and Mufwene: System and language ecology -- Chapter 7. Conclusion to Section I -- Part II: Social Order -- Chapter 9. From Durkheim to Garfinkel: Social facts and social order -- Chapter 10. Garfinkel: Members' methods of producing order -- Chapter 11. Case Study -- Chapter 12. Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson: Order in conversation -- Chapter 13. Social order, rationality and modernity -- Chapter 14. Pragmatics: Order in speech acts -- Chapter 15. Comparison of conversation analysis and speech act theory -- Chapter 16. Conclusion to Section II -- Part III: Creativity -- Chapter 17. Creativity, linguistics, the Skinner-Chomsky controversy -- Chapter 18. Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: How are human roles conceptualized -- Chapter 19 .Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: Thoughts on politics and human nature -- Chapter 20. Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: Thoughts on politics and human nature -- Chapter 21. Alternative theories: Creativity, metaphor, and everyday conversation -- Chapter 22. Creativity, machines and posthumanism -- Chapter 23. Conclusion to Section III -- Chapter 24. Conclusion.