Description:
For the past 40 years Talbot Taylor has argued for the distinctively reflexive character of human language and discursive practices. The seven papers included here explore the implications of this argument for various fields of language research, including linguistic theory, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition, language evolution, folk psychology, cognitive science, linguistic historiography, and the philosophy of language.
Brief description: Talbot J. Taylor is the Louise G. T. Cooley Professor of Linguistics at William & Mary. He is the author of Theorizing Language (1997) and Mutual Misunderstanding (1993) and co-author of Landmarks in Linguistic Thought (vol. 1, 1997; vol. 2, 2001) and Apes, Language, and the Human Mind (1998). His journal articles and book chapters since 1980 have addressed issues in linguistic normativity, reflexive and metalinguistic practices, child language deve-lopment, integrational linguistics, conversation analysis, ape language research, the ontology and epistemology of linguistic research, linguistic historiography, and the language ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein.