The Form of Information in Science: Analysis of an Immunology Sublanguage

di Z. Harris (Autore)

Michael Gottfried (Autore)

Thomas Ryckman (Autore)

Springer, 2011

DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of Pennsylvania there existed a something (it was not a Department, but a piece of the Anthropology Department) called 'Linguistic Analysis'. I was an untalented but enthusiastic student of Greek and a slightly more talented student of German, as well as the son of a translator, so the idea of 'Linguistic Analysis' attracted me, sight unseen, and I signed up for a course. It turned out that 'Linguistic Analysis' was essentially a graduate program - I and another undergraduate called Noam Chomsky were the only two undergraduates who took courses in Linguistic Analysis - and also that it was essentially a one-man show: a professor named Zellig Harris taught all the courses with the aid of graduate Teaching Fellows (and possibly - I am not sure - one Assistant Professor). The technicalities of Linguistic Analysis were formidable, and I never did master them all. But the powerful intellect and personality of Zellig Harris drew me like a lodestone, and, although I majored in Philosophy, I took every course there was to take in Linguistic Analysis from then until my gradua­ tion. What 'Linguistics' was like before Zellig Harris is something not many people care to remember today.

• Autore: Z. Harris, Michael Gottfried, Thomas Ryckman
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 589 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789401077774

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