Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog 
    
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LNGS 320 - Theories of Language


3 Credit(s)

Surveys major issues in Western approaches to language as they are developed in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Saussure, Skinner, Sapir, Austin, Chomsky, and others with particular attention to how these theories contribute to contemporary discussions about language and its relation to symbolic systems, linguistic structures and change, the mind/brain problem, human behavior and interaction, rhetoric, first and second language acquisition, and aesthetics. As warranted.



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