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Title: Language, Sense and Nonsense by Gordon P. Baker, P. M. S. Hacker ISBN: 0-631-13519-7 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Summary: A brilliant, but much-neglected, critique of linguistics
Comment: Baker and Hacker offer an incisive critique of modern linguistic theorising and philosophical conceptions of language based upon this mode of reasoning. Drawing heavily, but productively, upon the later logical work of Wittgenstein, they show, decisively in my view, that the Chomskian project is through-and-through misconceived, as are the philosophical works which ensued from his baleful influence. Applying recursive-function-theoretic concepts to the analysis of parts-of-speech (syntax), Chomsky believed that his analyses would cast light upon the universal grammar of all human languages, thence upon the essence of human mentality. Baker and Hacker (sometimes mercilessly) attack the very bases of such a project, including its apparently deep motivating concern: the new sentence production phenomenon. Nowhere in contemporary critisicm of modern linguistics can you find a more sustained, informed and well-argued attack upon the mythologies being perpetrated by the MIT linguists than here in this wonderful, scholarly and remarkably wide-ranging book.