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Noam Chomsky

  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    linguistics is part of psychology;
  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    inguistics is the study of language, and psychology the study of the acquisition or utilization of language.
  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    linguistics understood as the study of the system of language seems to fill a conceptual gap in the manner in which psychology is often conceived.
  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Language is normally a left-hemisphere function primarily, and current work aims to clarify the specific functions of the two hemispheres.
  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    The notion of language itself is on a very high level of abstraction.
  • Алика Биляловаhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    I’m thinking particularly of Labov’s1 work on non-standard English of the ghettos. In my opinion, that is also linguistics.
  • Montserrat Correahar citeretsidste år
    Their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, remains the starting point for any serious inquiry into news media performance.
  • Montserrat Correahar citeretsidste år
    Stability” means security for “the upper classes and large foreign enterprises,” whose welfare must be preserved
  • Muhammadhar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    Meanwhile, the Taliban found that the coffers in the Central Bank’s offices in Kabul were empty; the reserves—$9.5 billion—sat in U.S. banks, from which they were now seized by the United States to pay off the families of victims of the 9/11 attack. During the U.S. occupation, Afghanistan relied for its revenues on foreign aid, 43 percent of Afghan GDP in 2020. This collapsed as the United States withdrew; the UN Development Programme calculates a drop in the GDP because of the loss of foreign aid to be 20 percent (2021) and then 30 percent in the following years. Meanwhile, the United Nations estimates that by the end of 2022 the country’s per capita income may decline to nearly half of 2012 levels. It is estimated that 97 percent of the Afghan people will fall below the poverty line, with mass starvation a real possibility
  • Muhammadhar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    More than $2 trillion has been spent on the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, but it went neither to provide relief nor to build the country’s infrastructure. The money fattened the wallets of the rich in the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
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