Language and politics / Noam Chomsky; ed. C. P. Otero
Main Author Chomsky, Noam, 1928- Secondary Author Otero, Carlos Peregrín, 1930- Country Canadá. Publication Montréal : Black Rose Books, imp. 1999 Description 779 p. ; 23 cm ISBN 0-921689-34-9 CDU 19 CHOMSKY| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Monografia | Biblioteca Vitor Aguiar e Silva | BVAS 19 CHOMSKY - C | Indisponível | Not available | 264477 |
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A series of previously unpublished interviews, spanning the twenty year period from 1968 to 1988, that looks at the connection between Chomsky's linguistic studies and his political analysis. Prepared for Chomsky in celebration of his sixtieth birthday. "This wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory and critiques of radical politics."-- NACLA Report on the Americas
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This updated and annotated edition adds more interviews to Chomsky's 1988 original. The volume now includes his thoughts on topics from Vietnam to 9/11. Along with the politics, he analyzes linguistics. This edition also sports a bibliography and index plus notes on each interview. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community.Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics.
Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War.
Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).
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