Linguistic Theory The Discourse of Fundamental Works

"This is a magnificent contribution to an understanding of the development of linguistic theory in this century. One of the tragedies in the teaching of linguistics during the past fifteen years has been the lack of an historical perspective, which Robert de Beaugrande has now tried to rectify by a sound approach to a better understanding of where we have come from and where we are going." Eugene Nida "It's something we've been waiting for. The scope is huge." Dwight Bolinger