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Major Schools of Linguistics Table

The document outlines several major schools of linguistics including traditional grammar, historical linguistics, structural linguistics, generative linguistics, and functional linguistics. For each school, it provides information on the time period, general approach, purpose, major figures, models/units of analysis, associated schools of psychology, theories of first language acquisition, and other key concepts. The schools range from 18th century pre-scientific approaches to modern scientific theories starting in the early 20th century.

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Major Schools of Linguistics Table

The document outlines several major schools of linguistics including traditional grammar, historical linguistics, structural linguistics, generative linguistics, and functional linguistics. For each school, it provides information on the time period, general approach, purpose, major figures, models/units of analysis, associated schools of psychology, theories of first language acquisition, and other key concepts. The schools range from 18th century pre-scientific approaches to modern scientific theories starting in the early 20th century.

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Major Schools of Linguistics Table

Traditional Grammar 18tn century Pre-scientific Rationalist, subjective, Prescriptive, Puritan Historical Linguistics Late 19 century Pre-scientific Diachronic, Inspired by Darwin Structural Linguistics Early-Mid 20s, Scientific Empiricist, Descriptive, Synchronic, objective Pedagogical/ Anthropology de Saussure Bloomfield Spoken, Sentence, Surface Structure, Performance, Corpus, Systematic Languages are different Behaviorism Generative Linguistics Mid-Late 20th century(1957) Rationalist, mentalist Functional Linguistics 1970s-up to date Social Functionalist

Time Approach

Purpose

Mainly Pedagogical/ Philosophical/ Literary

Theoretical

Major Figures Model/ Unit of Analysis/ Aspect of Language Written, Usage, Word/ Sentence, Classical languages, Literature Notional definitions

Sir William Jones

Theoretical, to explore the properties of mind Noam Chomsky

Applied

Halliday, Hymes Spoken/ Written, Use Discourse, context, Communicative Competence, MacroLinguistics, E lang. Socialconstructivist/ humanistic Social Interactionist

Written, Historical development, Genetic relations among languages, cognates

Associated School of Psychology Associated L1 Acquisition Theory Associated Teaching Method Other Key Concepts

Faculty

Sentence, Intuition, Deep Structure, Competence, Mental Aspects, UG,I-Language, Creativity, Micro-Linguistics Cognitive

Mono genesis, Linguistic Universals

Behaviorism, Nurture, Conditioning ALM

Nativism, Nature, Innateness, LAD, UG CCLM, Designer Methods of the 1970s Syntactic Anatomy, PSR Hierarchy Analysis, Idealization, Modularity, Transformational Grammar, Government & Bindings, Minimalism

GTM

CLT and later developments

Linguistics Universal, Agreement, Tens, Number, Person, Gender,

Internal/ Comparative, Indo-European Language, Philology

Formal Approach, Discovery Procedure, Linear analysis, Immediate Constitute analysis, CAH, Blank Slate, Positivism

Pragmatics, Implicature, Deixis, Paralinguistics, Presupposition ,Speech Act, Style, Cooperative Principles, Cohesion ,Coherence

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