18. Conclusions

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of Tables xiii
4. List of Figures xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. 1. Theory groups in science 1
7. 2. Early work on American languages 27
8. 3. Franz Boas and the Institutionalization of Academic Anthropology 47
9. 4. Boas's students 67
10. 5. Edward Sapir 77
11. 6. Was Bloomfield a Bloomfieldian 113
12. 7. Neo-Bloomfieldians 137
13. 8. Structuralist Diversification during the 1950s 185
14. 9. Transformational-Generative Grammar before the1964-66 Revelations 225
15. 10. Language contact and early sociolinguistics 249
16. 11. The Ethnography of Speaking 289
17. 12. Related perspectives 341
18. 13. Ethnosciene 391
19. 14. The sociology of language 419
20. 15. Permanent Chomskian civil war in linguistics 431
21. 16. The third generation of University of California sociolinguists 447
22. 17. The turn away from linguistic interest in contemporary American anthropology 473
23. 18. Conclusions 479
24. An Appendix on Methods 491
25. Bibliography 503
26. Index of Names 577