Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagememics

by Kenneth Lee Pike

Pone a la disposicion de los lingustas y filosofos de habla espanola el trabajo de Kenneth Pike sobre la tagmemica. Presenta la filosofi­a basica de lenguaje y lingui­stica del Doctor Pike.

Genres: Linguistics

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1982

About the author

Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics, the coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic" and the developer of the constructed language Kalaba-X for use in teaching the theory and practice of translation.

In addition, he was the First President of the Bible-translating organization Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), with which he was associated from 1942 until his death.

Reviews

[Robert Murphy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Um ... I thought we were going head-to-head with Chomsky and the like. I thought this was supposed to be a comprehensive theory of everything? Instead, this was so broadly about everything that it wasn't about anything.

All that aside, it's a well-written book with lots of humor and friendly explanations. But it assumes other linguistic theories and attempts to "go meta" without helping with boots on the ground. Skip it, or just pick of the linguistic jokes and not the so-called philosophy.