The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.

There is a common-sense view of language, which is held by Wittgenstein, Strawson Dummett, Searle, Putnam, Lewis, Wiggins, and others. According to this view a language consists of conventions, it is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Counterpoints publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical ...

Where did language come from? Not evolution, Tom Wolfe argues in his new book, which attempts to refute Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. (Mark Seliger) Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the ...