Full Description
The book introduces a new hard science, which originated in an effort to solve the fundamental problems of linguistic theory: linguistics, which was far from being scientific, wanted to become a science.This new approach to analysing how people communicate provides properly scientific theory in a number of areas formerly thought to be outside the reach of a proper science. It unifies the hard sciences and the soft sciences and the humanities as analysable in just one new science. The book focuses on people, not language, grammar or any other such soft concept. It provides reasons why we must move our studies out of philosophy and into standard science. It shows how abstractions as known in older linguistics are flawed as science. The book provides a definitive historical perspective on the problems facing linguistics. There is a good discussion of prediction in scientific theory.
