Volume 6, Number 6 · April 14, 1966
Growing Pains
By I.A. Richards
General Linguistics: An Introductory Survey
by R.H. Robins
Indiana, 389 pp., $7.50
The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching
by M.A.K. Halliday, by Angus McIntosh, by Peter Strevens
Indiana, 321 pp., $6.75
Can a study suffer from an Ishmael complex? Yes, if it has special difficulties in establishing its own independence in its peculiar field and methodology. For a while it may go on in a lonely, hoity-toity way, full of airs and ires, issuing denunciations, injunctions, and excommunications, venting its hostility towards whatever it supposes to have stood in the way of its advance. In time however, as it becomes more secure (and more divided), this aggressiveness abates.
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