{"first_publish_date": "1994", "title": "Theory groups and the study of language in North America", "covers": [3942414], "subject_places": ["United States"], "lc_classifications": ["P81.U5 M87 1994"], "key": "/works/OL1944208W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL233316A"}}], "dewey_number": ["410/.973"], "subjects": ["Linguistics", "History", "Taalwetenschap"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and \"revolutionary\" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) \"revolutionary rhetoric\" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:36:28.418921"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-22T16:15:47.119687"}}