{"product_id":"ignorance-of-language-9780199250974","title":"Ignorance of Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Devitt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Physics - Mathematical \u0026amp; Computational\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a \"language faculty?\" These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is about linguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speakers are largely ignorant of their language; that speakers' intuitions do not reflect information supplied by the language faculty and are not the main evidence for grammars; that the rules of \"Universal Grammar\" are largely, if not entirely, innate structure rules of thought; indeed, that there is little or nothing to the language faculty. Devitt's controversial theses will prove highly stimulating to anyone working on language and the mind\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780957913239,"sku":"9780199250974","price":5181.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199250974.webp?v=1778049492","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ignorance-of-language-9780199250974","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}