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Noam Chomsky: The Father of Modern Linguistics

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and political activist born in 1928 in Pennsylvania. He revolutionized the field of linguistics with his theory that humans are born with an innate, universal grammar that allows children to learn language quickly without conscious effort. Chomsky is also known for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy and mass media through his books and activism. He continues to teach and write about topics in linguistics, politics, and social issues.

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Noam Chomsky: The Father of Modern Linguistics

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and political activist born in 1928 in Pennsylvania. He revolutionized the field of linguistics with his theory that humans are born with an innate, universal grammar that allows children to learn language quickly without conscious effort. Chomsky is also known for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy and mass media through his books and activism. He continues to teach and write about topics in linguistics, politics, and social issues.

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Brief profile

avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


on 7 December in 1928. Both his parents were prominent Hebrew
scholars...he is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive
scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. he is the
author of more than 100 books on topics such as linguist, war,
politics, and mass media . Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-
syndicalism and libertarian socialism. Since retiring from MIT, he
has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the
War on Terror and supporting the Occupy movement. Chomsky
began teaching at the University of Arizona in 2017.
Acedmic profile
 In 1945, Chomsky began a general program of
study at the University of Pennsylvania

 Chomsky revised this thesis for his MA, which he


received from the University of Pennsylvania in
1951.

 His undergraduate and graduate years were spent


at the University of Pennsylvania where he
received his PhD in linguistics in 1955.
Academic contribution
 In 1952 Chomsky published his first academic article,
Systems of Syntactic Analysis, which appeared not in a
journal of linguistics but in The Journal of Symbolic Logic.
 in 1954 he presented his ideas at lectures at the University of
Chicago and Yale University.
 In 1959 Chomsky published a review of B. F. Skinner's 1957
book Verbal Behavior in the academic journal Language
 in 1955 he Has been became a mit professor
 Chomsky began teaching at the University of Arizona in
2017.
Ideas & theory
 First Language Acquisition Chomsky developed a theory
in opposition to B.F.
Skinner, who argued very generally that language
comes about as a result of external stimuli.
 example a child responds to an object which is
acting as a stimulus, for example a doll, calling
it  doll. 
 Chomsky challenges this with the notion of
creativity if a child can regularly produce
sentences they have never heard before, how could
they be acting through stimuli Language is not
controlled by stimuli.
the filter of mass media
 According to Chomsky, media operate through five filters: ownership, advertising, the
media elite, flak and the common enemy.
 1 OWNERSHIP
The first has to do with ownership. Mass media firms are big corporations. Often, they
are part of even bigger conglomerates. Their end game is Profit. And so it’s in their
interests to push for whatever guarantees that profit. Naturally, critical journalism must
take second place to the needs and interests of the corporation.
 2 ADVERTISING
The second filter exposes the real role of advertising. Media costs a lot more than
consumers will ever pay. So who fills the gap Advertisers. And what are the advertisers
paying for Audiences. And so it isn’t so much that the media are selling you a product
— their output. They are also selling advertisers a product
 3 THE MEDIA ELITE
The establishment manages the media through the third filter. Journalism cannot be a
check on power because the very system encourages complicity. Governments,
corporations, big institutions know how to play the media game. They know how to
influence the news narrative. They feed media scoops, official accounts, interviews with
the ‘experts’. They make themselves crucial to the process of journalism. So, those in
power and those who report on them are in bed with each other.
4 FLAK
If you want to challenge power, you’ll be pushed to the
margins. When the media – journalists, whistle blowers,
sources – stray away from the consensus, they get ‘flak’.
This is the fourth filter. When the story is inconvenient for
the powers that be, you’ll see the flak machine in action
discrediting sources, trashing stories and diverting the
conversation.
 5 THE COMMON ENEMY
To manufacture consent, you need an enemy — a target.
That common enemy is the fifth filter. Communism.
Terrorists. Immigrants. A common enemy, a bogeyman to
fear, helps corral public opinion.
Conclusions
If language's mysterious origin sheds little light on its meaning, it
can be helpful to turn to Western society's most renowned—and
even controversial—linguist: Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is so
famous that an entire subfield of linguistics (the study of
language) has been named after him. Chomskyian linguistics is
a broad term for the principles of language and the methods of
language study introduced and/or popularized by Chomsky in
such ground breaking works as "Syntactic Structures" (1957) and
"Aspects of the Theory of Syntax" (1965).
and specially thanks to.

 Sudharshan sir
 Powershow.com
 Wikipedia.com
 Chomsky.info
 translate.google.com

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