Thread: Noam Chomsky: A Linguistic Genius

I haven't used any personal insults and my and the majority of other posters point of view is more dynamic than you care to make out.

Read your post #224. it's insuling and immature and adds nothing to the discussion in this thread. And you want us to take you seriously? Your resort to sarcasm when a valid point has been made is also rather insulting.

You keep coming back to the same point that we have to prove that Chomsky uses academic methodology to reach his conclusions when clearly by the very nature of his work he has used an applied methodology that goes beyond pure academia.

You talk about academic methodology as if it is some kind of higher knowledge known only to the few.
Clearly by definition 'academic' is not the definitive measure of Chomsky's work as you claim.

ac·a·dem·ic Audio Help/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ak-uh-dem-ik]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.

2.pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.

3.theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.

4.learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.

5.conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.

6.acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.

7.(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy. –noun

8.a student or teacher at a college or university.

9.a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.

10.(initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.

11.academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.

meth·od·ol·o·gy Audio Help/ˌmɛθəˈdɒlədʒi/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[meth-uh-dol-uh-jee]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -gies.
1.a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.

2.Philosophy. a.the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure. b.the study of the principles underlying the organization of the various sciences and the conduct of scientific inquiry.

3.Education. a branch of pedagogics dealing with analysis and evaluation of subjects to be taught and of the methods of teaching them.

Hardly beyond comprehension is it?

As you claim to be an Academic I do find suggestion 4. rather fitting for you.




You are simply trolling this thread trying to drag the debate in the direction of your own illogical pursuit.
You haven't even read anything by Chomsky.

Red on it's way.