--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

> 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?
>

Not since the days I was 'at school'
with some of them in St.Andrews.
Only the University of Padang,
Indonesia, shows yahoo! group
evidence of such a discipline,
albeit not a separate department.

>
> > > 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.
>

But it's raining & I'll miss
Columbo.

>
> > > > 'manufactured consensus.'

Both

>
> You had it right the first time --

his phrase is "manufactured
consent."

>

My Engine Search flunked, somewhat,
on this one, altho Jeeves managed to
find a Chomsky sentence with both
'manufactured' and 'consensus' in,
in that context. I'll get back to
you on that one.

>

Richard Comaish