etaonsh wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > etaonsh wrote:
> > >
> > > To me, Chomsky is the genius
> behind
> > > the coining of the word
> > > 'psycholinguistics' and the
> phrase
> >
> > Wrong. It was in use by 1952, when
> Chomsky was still doing math and
> > hadn't even reconceptualized
> himself as a linguist.
> >
> I can accept what you say (even
> without evidence, e.g., of the
> actual originator) but is there not

There's a 1952 book edited by Osgood, presumably reporting a conference
held a year or so before that.

> a danger of important concepts
> 'getting lost' without the geniuses
> to spotlight them? Marx didn't coin
> words like 'capitalism' and
> 'communism,' after all. An important
> concept like 'manufactured
> consensus' could, conceivably, get
> lost unless someone writes a study
> on it. 'Psycholingustics' will not
> achieve its potential until someone
> opens a department under that name.

You don't seem to be too aware of the population of American
universities?

> > BTW your posts are _very_ hard to
> read -- can you do something about
> > your line length, and also put
> spaces before and after your
> interspersed
> > comments?
> >
> Yes, but it might involve passing a
> blonde gorgon in charge of an
> internet cafe.

Then do so.

> > > 'manufactured consensus.' Both

You had it right the first time -- his phrase is "manufactured consent."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...