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    Linguistic philosophy represents the viewpoint that philosophical issues can be addressed by examining language. It emphasizes clarifying language over explaining grand problems. Major proponents discussed include Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In education, linguistic philosophy aims to improve student communication abilities through teaching verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal communication skills. Teachers can assign activities analyzing dialects, conducting interviews, or examining corpora to teach students about language.

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    Linguistic philosophy represents the viewpoint that philosophical issues can be addressed by examining language. It emphasizes clarifying language over explaining grand problems. Major proponents discussed include Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In education, linguistic philosophy aims to improve student communication abilities through teaching verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal communication skills. Teachers can assign activities analyzing dialects, conducting interviews, or examining corpora to teach students about language.

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    Ivy Jean Feliciano

    Dr. Melissa Napil

    ED200(4035)

    September 11, 2021

    Written Report in Linguistic Philosophy


    Linguistic philosophy represents the viewpoint that philosophical issues can be handled by
    either altering language or learning more about the language we now use.
    Proponents
    Noam Chomsky (1928- ):
    U.S. linguist and political critic. He is one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth
    century and still today he dominates the scene of theoretical linguistics. He is most famous for
    his unique linguistic philosophy. He has revolutionised the discipline of linguistics with his
    much-talked-about theory of Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG), in which he
    emphasises the mental capacity of generating sentences with the use of unconscious knowledge
    of language which he calls Universal Grammar (UG). He says, TGG attempts to specify ‘what
    the speaker actually knows’ (Chomsky, 1965: 8). He asserts that human brain is biologically
    programmed to learn language, so language faculty is innate. For him, mind works during the
    course of learning a language. These innatist and mentalist views made his theory distinct,
    placing him in headon collision with behaviourism, which was much in fashion during the first
    half of the twentieth century. Chomsky dealt a serious blow to behaviourism, after which
    stimulus-response theory of language learning was abandoned, giving a boost to cognitive
    psychology. This paradigm shift in the history of linguistics is recognised as Chomskyan
    Revolution.

    Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913): Swiss linguist. The founder of structural linguistics, he


    declared that there is only an arbitrary relationship between a linguistic sign and that which it
    signifies.

    Umberto Eco (1932-2016): Italian semiologist and writer. His novels include The Name of the
    Rose (1981) and Foucault's Pendulum (1988).

    Roman Jakobson (1896-1982): U.S. linguist, born in Russia. His publications include Children's
    Speech (1941) and Fundamentals of Language (1956).

    Robin Lakoff (1942- )Widely recognised as one of the first linguists to analyse gender as a
    powerful, complex and nuanced influence on linguistic form and language as a social practice.
    Her position as a feminist-sociolinguist pioneer rests against a broader concern with power,
    discourse and linguistics.
    Charles Peirce (1839-1914): American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who cofounded
    pragmatism, made many contributions to logic, and was one of the original developers of
    semiotics.

    Edward Sapir (1884-1939)From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia


    Polish-born U.S. linguist and anthropologist. He was a founder of ethnolinguistics, which
    considers the relationship of culture to language, and a principal developer of the American
    (descriptive) school of structural linguistics.

    Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941): American linguist who developed what came to be known as the
    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in collaboration with his teacher Edward Sapir.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): 1889-1951, British philosopher born in Austria; explored


    language and meaning; influenced logical positivism.

    Linguistic Philosophy in Education


    Linguistic philosophy is the belief that many (or all) philosophical difficulties can be solved (or
    eliminated) by paying more attention to language, either by altering language or by better
    comprehending the language we use now. It is one of the educational philosophies that strives to
    improve the learner's communication abilities.
    The difference of Language and Linguistic
    Language is a sign system used by humans to transmit their ideas, feelings, and views to others,
    but linguistics is the study of language as a science. In fact, the purpose of linguistics is to define
    languages and explain the illiterate knowledge that all speakers possess about their native tongue.
    Curriculum
    It is important to teach students how to communicate clearly. There are three types of
    communication: verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal.
    Verbal – the content of our message, the choice and arrangement of our words. This can be oral
    or written
    Nonverbal – the message we send through body language
    Paraverbal – refers to how we say what we say – tone, pacing, and volume of our voices
    Assessment
    To improve the learners' communication abilities. To instill in the student the ability to send and
    receive communications in a clear and timely manner.
    Classroom Management
    Teach language and communication using a hands-on approach. Make the classroom a place
    where brains and hearts can interact. Facilitate discourse among students because there is an
    interchange of thoughts in the exchange of words.
    Instruction
    Teach students how to utilize right, precise, grammatical, coherent, and accurate language. Assist
    students in increasing their vocabulary. Teach the student how to communicate effectively. Warn
    the students about communication difficulties, both verbal and nonverbal. Teach the students to
    communicate in as many languages as possible.
    Example:
    A teacher can assign one of three types of activities to his or her students. In the first, he has
    students complete dialect surveys or a quick anonymous survey to collect their own real-world
    data, which they then analyze for linguistic variance trends. These activities focus on data
    collection opportunities that allow students to learn not only about local patterns of variation that
    occur "in their own backyard," but also to focus on the quantitative analysis of that data, giving
    students a first-hand understanding of the nuanced complexities of social and regional dialect
    variation.
    A second sort of assignment gives students access to a corpus of raw voice data and asks them to
    analyze the patterns they find. This practice also enables students to learn more about the
    diversity of racial dialects.
    Students interview native speakers of languages other than English in order to study various
    aspects of phonetics in a third type of activity. S/he worked hard to encourage pupils who were
    interested in languages other than English to study those languages and explore different themes
    in those languages..
    Summary
    Linguistic philosophy can be defined as the current tendencies in British, notably Oxford,
    philosophy that have mostly emerged under the influence of thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Ryle,
    Austin, and others. It opposes speculative (metaphysical) philosophy and considers philosophy to
    be primarily a critical activity. According to this viewpoint, philosophy is a critical or clarifying
    activity rather than a collection of knowledge.
    On this basis, philosophy lacks its own subject matter. The basic purpose of philosophy,
    according to the linguistic philosopher, is to clarify the language, not to explain the grand
    problems of life and the world.
    When talking about free will, for example, we should think about how we might use words like
    "compelled," "could have," "choose to," and "decide" in different ways.
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    Intero, J. (2014, October 10). Teaching Profession. Sildeshare.Net.

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    LibGuides: Linguistics in Credo: Linguists and Language Philosophers. (2021, August 13).

    Https://Credoreference.Libguides.Com/Linguistics.

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