{"id":6081,"date":"2014-04-22T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2014-04-22T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T08:21:09","slug":"ling-lunch-424-tianshan-dai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/04\/22\/ling-lunch-424-tianshan-dai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 4\/24 - Tianshan Dai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Tianshan Dai (Shenzhen Polytechnic University)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The Taoist Perspective of Chomsky\u0092s Philosophy of Language<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Apr 24, 12:30-1:45p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I will discuss and interpret some of the lines from Chuang Tzu\u0092s writings about the nature of language, children\u0092s acquisition of language, language\u0092s communicative function and meaning, etc. I compare Chuang Tzu\u0092s Taoist philosophy of language with that of Chomsky, pointing out many striking similarities between the two, which shed light on both historical traditions between the east and the west. I conclude in the talk that the Plato\u0092s problem or the Descartes\u0092 problem in the west could be appropriately labeled Chuang Tzu\u0092s problem in the east, and the development of generative linguistics can serve as a modern interpretation of Chuang Tzu\u0092s Taoist philosophy of language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Tianshan Dai (Shenzhen Polytechnic University) Title: The Taoist Perspective of Chomsky\u0092s Philosophy of Language Date\/Time: Thursday, Apr 24, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 In this talk, I will discuss and interpret some of the lines from Chuang Tzu\u0092s writings about the nature of language, children\u0092s acquisition of language, language\u0092s communicative function and meaning, etc. I compare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}