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Foreword to Sarah Cummins translation of Dan Sperber, "Rudiments of Cognitive Rhetoric"
Publication · March 26, 2026
Response to David Berreby, "Figures of Speech" (on The Linguistics Wars)
Publication · March 26, 2026
Letter to the Editor on Black English
An otherwise unremarkable little note, except that it was pounced upon by Peter C. Emberley as an example of liberal daffiness, in his "Hot-button politics on campus", The Globe and Mail (27 July 96), and in the larger polemic that piece comes fro...
Publication · March 26, 2026
Response to Review of The Linguistics Wars, by John Lawler
See also the comments of Steven Murray (and again, here), Richard Wojeck, Douglas Kibee, Helen Dry, and Barbara Need; the book also came up for discussion as part of an exchange over Robert Barsky's A Life in dissent (see Feargal Murphy, and the r...
Publication · March 26, 2026
Response to "Grammar and Technical Writing", by K. Scott Ferguson and Frank Parker
Publication · March 26, 2026
The History of a Science: Unreliable Narrators and How Science Moves On
Part of an exchange that starts with an article by Chris Knight (Chomsky's choice), and includes commentaries by Frederick J. Newmeyer, Lev Ledivow, David Golumbia, Wolfgang Sperlich, Peter Jones, and a second one by Knight.
Publication · March 26, 2026
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