Synchronic Fallacy

Denmark: Odense University Press, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book The Synchronic Fallacy introduces a postmodern attitude into the science of language. In accordance with its own Critico-Philological Method the essay is a constructive critique of the transcendent foundationalism of modern synchronic linguistics. Without falling into nihilistic… Read more about this item

Denmark: Odense University Press, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book The Synchronic Fallacy introduces a postmodern attitude into the science of language. In accordance with its own Critico-Philological Method the essay is a constructive critique of the transcendent foundationalism of modern synchronic linguistics. Without falling into nihilistic… Read more about this item

Slight cover corner bump, large rubberstamp to half-title, VG. Theoretical Linguistics Odense University Press Odense 2001 orig. wrappers 25x18cm, 481 pp, Series: Odense University Studies in Linguistics, Vol. 12. University of Southern Denmark doctoral dissertation Contents: Prologue: An Importing Discipline is to Become Immanent and perhaps an Exporter. A Reckoning with the 20th Century Linguistic Tradition´s Synchronizations of 'die geschichtliche… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. Introduces a post-modern attitude into the science of language. The author demonstrates how modern linguistics turns out to be a metaphysical statement of only a section of language, and how the synchronicity of modern linguistics cannot deliver on its promises to produce empirically relevant descriptions of the existence of the everyday language.