The Linguistics Wars Randy Allen Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Reverend Driscoll maintained a principal residence and a lake home where he vacationed and excluded from income the costs of acquiring and maintaining both homes (parsonage allowance). How did you do the linguistic research? In some circles, Chomsky is an extremely well regarded philosopher/linguist/cognitive scientist who is often pointed to by left-of-center types looking to add academic credibility to their argument. This way of talking and presenting work is really off-putting in other variations of linguistics. I was quoted somewhat extensively (relatively speaking for newspaper articles) in this piece by Tim Johnson for McClatchy Newspapers (here in The Miami Herald), and thought my readers might want to have a look. €Linguistic war over amnesty,” headlined the De Standaard newspaper Thursday. €Amnesty About nothing,” said Flemish legislator and historian Luckas Vander Taelen, who has worked extensively on World War II. UPDATE ON THE LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY WARS. Image: The Linguistics Wars by Randy Allen Harris (Oxford University Press, 1993) Linguistic landscape studies answers important questions like, “In my English garden, may I plant French beans or is that tres gauche? One thought on “The Patois/Patwa Wars”. A socially awkward nerd's adventures through dating, friendship, and just plain hilarious happenstance. Then, there are expert linguists who argue that patois is a language, the first language of most Jamaicans, and it should be formally recognized by officialdom. 'Formal' linguistics today comes from a very bad pedigree of nastiness, back to the bad old days of the Linguistics Wars. Which both propelled Linguistics into the mass media and set the agenda for a fierce debate in linguistic theory, a debate which raged for the next twenty years in what were melodramatically dubbed 'The Linguistics Wars'. And so it all kind of came together as a But I was also really curious about this passionate debate, which became Chapter 4 in the book, called “The Grammar Wars,” which is basically about the five-centuries-long debate about English, starting, you could say, with Jonathan Swift. And one thing that I wanted to do more of, that I hadn't had a chance to do in the previous book, was linguistics research, on the history of English. I posted here at the beginning of this year about the fierce debate in linguistics between those, such as Noam. Two weeks ago, linguist/lexicographer Ben Zimmer had a piece in the New York Times Magazine about the use of fictional languages in science fiction films.