Ideology and Linguistic Theory

This revisionist and highly controversial book argues that Chomsky's triumph in interpretative semantics was a result of the opposing side's failure to establish an institutional base. This is a radical re-appraisal of Chomsky's paradigm.

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In The Ideological Structure of Linguistic Theory Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.