The Language Instinct (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Steven Pinker
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Linguistic theory
- Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Children, Psychology or psychologists, Education or educators, Creative process, Genetics, Intellect, Social sciences, Societies
The publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957) changed forever the way people concerned with language would look upon it. Within a decade of its publication, the teaching of the new Chomskian transformational-generative grammar was being widely mandated in schools throughout the United States. A cottage industry developed to produce textbooks based on the transformational-generative approach to language, some in series that had one book for each grade from three through twelve, such as the series created by Paul Roberts and published by Harcourt Brace.
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