Chomskyan Revolution in Bulgarian Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Environment
Chomskyan Revolution in Bulgarian Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Environment
Author(s): Tzvetomira VenkovaSubject(s): Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Lexis, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Bulgarian transformational-generative syntax; cross-cultural reception of Chomskyan linguistic theories; Chomskyan revolution; transformational-generative grammar;
Summary/Abstract: The term Chomskyan revolution, referring to the innovative current in modern American linguistics and Noam Chomsky as it’s leading figure, permeated the metaphorical imagery of the popular linguistic and socio-cultural spheres in the USA. This term actually surpassed specialized linguistic circles, where it designated Chomsky’s transformational-generative grammar model and normally appeared in quotation marks. However, although Chomskyan revolution came to occupy a central position in the American network of unquestioned cultural mythologemes, its Bulgarian reception was different. The overall impression in Bulgarian linguistic and socio-cultural circles regarding the revolutionary leap has been rather skeptical and reserved, although the Chomskyan grammar model itself has been introduced into research practice. Such a difference in attitudes towards the status of transformational-generative grammar in the source and a target country is discussed here in terms of motivations and basic positions.
Journal: Slavia Meridionalis
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 1-17
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English