The Guardian angels of Linguistics

You might have never seen them. You might have never heard them speaking. And you might have never probably flipped through their books (probably not). But it is sure they are the guardian angels of Modern Linguistics from the later half of the 20^th century world, we study and dwell upon today. They have inspired many a linguists and have set standards that sometimes seem unachievable. Nevertheless, they are the forerunners in their own respective fields. Here is an easy Guide to find them on the web.

The 10 guardian angels of Linguistics:

Noam Chomsky : Generative Linguist, Political thinker and Philosopher

http://www.chomsky.info/

Peter Ladefoged : Phonetician (late)

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/

William Labov : Sociolinguist

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/

Dell Hymes : Sociolinguist, Anthropologist and Folklorist

http://www.virginia.edu/anthropology/dhymes.html

David Crystal :Applied linguist

http://www.davidcrystal.com/

Joseph Greenberg : Typologist (late)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Greenberg

Stephen C. Levinson ragmatist

http://www.mpi.nl/Members/StephenLevinson

Robin Lakoff : Sociolinguist and Pragmatist

http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/fac/lakoffr.html

R.M.W. Dixon : Field Linguist

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/dixon.htm

Ray Jackendoff : Semanticist

http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/jackendoff.shtml

 

 

World’s top public intellectual!

He is in his 70s and first became known for his theory of transformational grammar – and now he is top of the thinkers’ hit parade. Noam Chomsky, the linguistics professor who has become one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy, has won a poll that names him as the world’s top public intellectual…………says The Guardian.18th October 2005.

Who is this Russian tongue twister named individual?
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power.
Outside of academia, Chomsky is far more widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism (he is a member of the IWW). He is generally considered to be a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and the eighth most cited scholar overall.

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