Vyvyan Evans

Vyvyan Evans is professor of linguistics at Bangor University in the School of Linguistics and English Language.[1] He received his PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2000. Evans writes about cognitive linguistics and is liaison officer of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. His research relates to the domains of space and time. He also works on lexical and compositional semantics, as well as figurative language and abstract thought. Evans is the architect of the theory of lexical concepts and cognitive models (LCCM Theory). He is editor-in-chief of Language and Cognition.

His book "The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct",[2] written for a general audience, explicitly aims to refute Steven Pinker's 1994 "The Language Instinct" and the universal grammar of Noam Chomsky,[3] claiming that a Kuhnian paradigm shift was under way in linguistics.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Staff". Bangor University. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  2. ↑ "Why language is neither an instinct nor innate", Alun Anderson, Issue 2991, October 2014, New Scientist
  3. ↑ "The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct, by Vyvyan Evans", Michelle Aldridge, 16 October 2014, timeshighereducation.com
  4. ↑ "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Reflections on radical fundamentalism in language science, Vyv Evans, Apr 20, 2015, psychologytoday.com

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