On Language

By Noam Chomsky. 1998

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Imagination and the Meaningful Brain (2003, background): “Furthermore, how is one to know that empathic knowledge is not simply a mistaken projection of the observer, what William James (1890) called “the psychologist’s fallacy,” which he described as “the confusion of his own standpoint with the mental fact about which he is making his report.”
Teacher Language Awareness and the Professional Knowledge Base of the L2 Teacher (2003, unknown): “Knowledge of subject matter is widely seen as being the core of a teacher’s language awareness, and definitions of TLA typically centre on the teacher’s knowledge of the language systems (see e.g. Thornbury, 1997: x).”
Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity (2002, background): “…it is not isolated at all, but rather an instance of a general principle common to all natural systems that ‘make infinite use of finite means’ (Humboldt 1836/1999: 91), including physics, chemistry, genetics and language, namely, ‘the particulate principle of self-diversifying systems’…”
The Invisible Multilingual Teacher: The Contribution of Language Background to Australian ESL Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Beliefs (2004, background): “edge is termed ‘language awareness’ or LA (Thornbury, 1997), ‘metalinguistic”
The Language Awareness of the L2 Teacher: Its Impact Upon Pedagogical Practice (2001, background): “Thornbury (1997), for example, lists a number of potential consequences of weakness in the area of language awareness: a failure on the part of the teacher to anticipate learners’ learning problems and a consequent inability to plan lessons that are pitched at the right level;”
Metaphor—The Bridge Between Feelings And Knowledge (2009, background): “”) Jakobson believed that metaphor and metonymy are in opposition to each other. As Anna Aragno (this issue) discusses, Freud avoided the term metaphor. This was also noted by Jakobson, who observed that in Freud’s description of condensation and displacement in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), ”