Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. The Multiple Ambiguities of American Linguistic Identity 1
5. 2. ‘The American Whitney’ and his European Heritages and Legacies 19
6. 3. 20th-Century Linguistics in America and Europe 47
7. 4. The Sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’ 71
8. 5. The Origins of American Sociolinguistics 107
9. 6. Bloomfield’s and Chomsky’s Readings of the Cours de linguistique générale 133
10. 7. How Structuralist Was ‘American Structuralism’? 157
11. 8. How Behaviourist Was Verbal Behavior ? 169
12. 9. The Popular (Mis)interpretations of Whorf and Chomsky 181
13. References 197
14. Index 223