How to be a singular scientist of words, worlds, and other (possibly) wonderful things: An obituary for James D. McCawley (1934-1999) - Remembrance

Authors
Koyama, W
Citation
W. Koyama, How to be a singular scientist of words, worlds, and other (possibly) wonderful things: An obituary for James D. McCawley (1934-1999) - Remembrance, J PRAGMATIC, 32(6), 2000, pp. 651-686
Citations number
66
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
ISSN journal
03782166 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
651 - 686
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-2166(200005)32:6<651:HTBASS>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
This obituary tries to represent the total vision of Jim McCawley's philoso phy of practice, philosophy of language, linguistic theory,'syntactic' theo ry, linguistic analyses and scientific practices, in all of which his indiv idualism, relativism and critical rationalism were consistently manifested. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.