Ralph A. Hartmann, “Philosophies of Language and Linguistics: Plato, Aristotle, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Bloomfield, Russell, Quine, Searle, Chomsky, and Pinker on language and its systematic study”, 2016 was a nonfiction science book on linguistics philosophers. Harrison Horblit’s, “100 Books Famous in the History of Science”, 1964 does not have linguistic science books. This blog post on Ralph Hartmann, “Philosophies of Language and Linguistics”, 2016 is ten outstanding linguistic writers. The linguistic science books are:
1. Plato, “Cratylus”.
2. Aristotle, “On Interpretation”.
3. Ferdinand de Saussure, “Cours de linguistique generale”.
4.a Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Philosophical Investigations”.
4.b Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractus Logico- “philosophicus”.
5. Leonard Bloomfield, “Language”.
6. Bertrand Russell, “An Inquiry
into Meaning and Truth .
7. Willard Van Orman Quine,
“Word and Object”.
8. John Searle, “Speech Acts”.
9. Noam Chomsky, “Knowledge
of Language”.
10. Steven Pinker, “The Language
Instinct”.
Ralph A. Hartmann, “Philosophies of Language and Linguistics: Plato, Aristotle, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Bloomfield, Russell, Quine, Searle, Chomsky, and Pinker on language and its systematic study”, 2016 was nonfictional, writings on linguistic science books. The ten writers of the books are addition to Harrison Horblit, “100 Books Famous in the History of Science”, 1964 which lists no language science books.
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