Noam Chomsky (1 Viewer)

[kimmeh]

I dont know where this belongs, but can someone tell me who he is and what he does in relation to english and 'telling the truth' .. i think sumfing about media? and their biased views?

 

[piccaninny]

Chomsky, Noam (1928- ), American linguist, educator, and political activist, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He is regarded as the founder of transformational-generative grammar, an original system of linguistic analysis that revolutionized linguistics. Chomsky believes that language is the result of an innate human faculty and that the aim of linguistics is, therefore, to determine what universal properties are and to establish a universal grammar which would account for the range of linguistic variation humanly possible. His analyses of language start with basic sentences, from which are developed an endless variety of syntactic combinations by means of a set of rules that he formulates.
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[ezzy85]

hes that guy whos against an israeli state. or for. i forget...

 

[spin spin sugar]

he's a political writer, he has written about media distortion etc particularly in the case of america and their campaigns/wars etc.

one of my friends used a book of his as a related text for telling the truth.

 

[sneeble]

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky.

It's great stuff for Frontline

 

[Lexicographer]

Chomsky is a linguistic hero! Don't know about his politics though, only found out he has an opinion very recently...

 

[~TeLEpAtHeTiC~]

chomsky reminds me of those chocolate bars, remeber 'chomps' the commericla invovled that alligator and he would chomp the chocolate...hmmmmm i wanna chomp