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    1997. “On Computational and Chomskyan Linguistic Theory”. Bahri, U.S. ed. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol .XXIII, No.2 (pp.29-42). Jul-Dec’97 Delhi. ISSN 0379-0037 http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2458695 & http://linguistlist.org/pubs/papers/browse-papers-action.cfm?PaperID=11102 This is an imagined dialogic paper on the problems of perceiving creative speaking subject’s corporeal as machine. The author alleged that the one of the basic tenets in Chomsky’s discourse, due to its Cartesian inheritance, was to consider human body as a machine, thus Chomskian syntactic enterprise had become a part of the anatomo-bio-political project a la Foucault. It was a case of minimization, approximation, optimization, appropriation of human body, when Chomsky and his fellowmen (like Lasnik, Berwick) deployed technocratic metaphors (e.g., the terms like “Computation’, “array” “interface”, “parser “etc. on the other hand, operations like “COMMAND”, “SATISFY”, “SPELL OUT”. All these operations reflect the metonymic transformation of creative speaking subject as all these functions in uppercase letter made the author remember Schank’s [1975] language-free representations [PROPEL, MOVE, INGEST or CONTROL, PART etc.], which combine primitive conceptual roles and categories.) for explaining a part of cognitive domain, that is a “physical organ”: LAD. These were not metaphors or case of displacement only, but was a case of metonymic transformation of human body as these technical metaphors condense the scope of human (linguistic) potentiality. Does human body follow binary mechanical algorithm only at the moment of speaking? Do we not have extra-/non-algorithmic cognitive ability? (The author’s point is that Cognitive Domain is not algorithmic only.) The discourse that Chomskians are using is fully algocentric (a discourse that is motivated by meta-mathematical formalism or computational algorithmic simulation guided by the technical rationality, ignoring the non-algorithmic constitutive rules) in its nature. According to author’s perception, Chomsky wanted to build up a Turing Machine for solving each linguistic problem without solving the halting problem of the machine. Chomsky’s parametric approach was “computer-friendly” as language was now perceived as a network of interlocking principles and parsing as linear steps. A parser would supply, in the same manner of Searle’s Chinese Room Puzzle, “yes/no answers” to the question: “Is this sentence grammatical?”. One can switch over from one parameter to another to manage a specific language like a machine (it seemed to the author that this was a Leibnizian Turn in Chomskian Theory; he was switching over from Cartesian Cogito to Monad—Universal of all universals—Monad of all monads—Principle of parameters) In fact, the language is not only governed by either procedural or parametric principles, but there are constitutive non-formal principles. This paper also discussed the problems of Computational Linguistics in connection with Indian plurilingual milieu. COLOPHON: The author is thankful to Prof. N. Chomsky as he answered all these questions with patience and promised to drop the term “computation” from the technical vocabulary of syntax as he wrote, “On the use of computers as a metaphor, I actually rare do, and I’ve been pretty explicit in warning that the metaphor isn’t to be taken too seriously. Like any metaphor, if it helps clarify thought and stimulates imagination, fine; if it leads to error, as this one constantly has, then drop it.” (personal correspondence, 13/2/1995)

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    1997. “On Computational and Chomskyan Linguistic Theory”. Bahri, U.S. ed. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol .XXIII, No.2 (pp.29-42). Jul-Dec’97 Delhi. ISSN 0379-0037 http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2458695 & http://linguistlist.org/pubs/papers/browse-papers-action.cfm?PaperID=11102 This is an imagined dialogic paper on the problems of perceiving creative speaking subject’s corporeal as machine. The author alleged that the one of the basic tenets in Chomsky’s discourse, due to its Cartesian inheritance, was to consider human body as a machine, thus Chomskian syntactic enterprise had become a part of the anatomo-bio-political project a la Foucault. It was a case of minimization, approximation, optimization, appropriation of human body, when Chomsky and his fellowmen (like Lasnik, Berwick) deployed technocratic metaphors (e.g., the terms like “Computation’, “array” “interface”, “parser “etc. on the other hand, operations like “COMMAND”, “SATISFY”, “SPELL OUT”. All these operations reflect the metonymic transformation of creative speaking subject as all these functions in uppercase letter made the author remember Schank’s [1975] language-free representations [PROPEL, MOVE, INGEST or CONTROL, PART etc.], which combine primitive conceptual roles and categories.) for explaining a part of cognitive domain, that is a “physical organ”: LAD. These were not metaphors or case of displacement only, but was a case of metonymic transformation of human body as these technical metaphors condense the scope of human (linguistic) potentiality. Does human body follow binary mechanical algorithm only at the moment of speaking? Do we not have extra-/non-algorithmic cognitive ability? (The author’s point is that Cognitive Domain is not algorithmic only.) The discourse that Chomskians are using is fully algocentric (a discourse that is motivated by meta-mathematical formalism or computational algorithmic simulation guided by the technical rationality, ignoring the non-algorithmic constitutive rules) in its nature. According to author’s perception, Chomsky wanted to build up a Turing Machine for solving each linguistic problem without solving the halting problem of the machine. Chomsky’s parametric approach was “computer-friendly” as language was now perceived as a network of interlocking principles and parsing as linear steps. A parser would supply, in the same manner of Searle’s Chinese Room Puzzle, “yes/no answers” to the question: “Is this sentence grammatical?”. One can switch over from one parameter to another to manage a specific language like a machine (it seemed to the author that this was a Leibnizian Turn in Chomskian Theory; he was switching over from Cartesian Cogito to Monad—Universal of all universals—Monad of all monads—Principle of parameters) In fact, the language is not only governed by either procedural or parametric principles, but there are constitutive non-formal principles. This paper also discussed the problems of Computational Linguistics in connection with Indian plurilingual milieu. COLOPHON: The author is thankful to Prof. N. Chomsky as he answered all these questions with patience and promised to drop the term “computation” from the technical vocabulary of syntax as he wrote, “On the use of computers as a metaphor, I actually rare do, and I’ve been pretty explicit in warning that the metaphor isn’t to be taken too seriously. Like any metaphor, if it helps clarify thought and stimulates imagination, fine; if it leads to error, as this one constantly has, then drop it.” (personal correspondence, 13/2/1995)

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    1997. “On Computational and Chomskyan Linguistic Theory”. Bahri, U.S. ed. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol .XXIII, No.2 (pp.29-42). Jul-Dec’97 Delhi. ISSN 0379-0037 http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2458695 & http://linguistlist.org/pubs/papers/browse-papers-action.cfm?PaperID=11102 This is an imagined dialogic paper on the problems of perceiving creative speaking subject’s corporeal as machine. The author alleged that the one of the basic tenets in Chomsky’s discourse, due to its Cartesian inheritance, was to consider human body as a machine, thus Chomskian syntactic enterprise had become a part of the anatomo-bio-political project a la Foucault. It was a case of minimization, approximation, optimization, appropriation of human body, when Chomsky and his fellowmen (like Lasnik, Berwick) deployed technocratic metaphors (e.g., the terms like “Computation’, “array” “interface”, “parser “etc. on the other hand, operations like “COMMAND”, “SATISFY”, “SPELL OUT”. All these operations reflect the metonymic transformation of creative speaking subject as all these functions in uppercase letter made the author remember Schank’s [1975] language-free representations [PROPEL, MOVE, INGEST or CONTROL, PART etc.], which combine primitive conceptual roles and categories.) for explaining a part of cognitive domain, that is a “physical organ”: LAD. These were not metaphors or case of displacement only, but was a case of metonymic transformation of human body as these technical metaphors condense the scope of human (linguistic) potentiality. Does human body follow binary mechanical algorithm only at the moment of speaking? Do we not have extra-/non-algorithmic cognitive ability? (The author’s point is that Cognitive Domain is not algorithmic only.) The discourse that Chomskians are using is fully algocentric (a discourse that is motivated by meta-mathematical formalism or computational algorithmic simulation guided by the technical rationality, ignoring the non-algorithmic constitutive rules) in its nature. According to author’s perception, Chomsky wanted to build up a Turing Machine for solving each linguistic problem without solving the halting problem of the machine. Chomsky’s parametric approach was “computer-friendly” as language was now perceived as a network of interlocking principles and parsing as linear steps. A parser would supply, in the same manner of Searle’s Chinese Room Puzzle, “yes/no answers” to the question: “Is this sentence grammatical?”. One can switch over from one parameter to another to manage a specific language like a machine (it seemed to the author that this was a Leibnizian Turn in Chomskian Theory; he was switching over from Cartesian Cogito to Monad—Universal of all universals—Monad of all monads—Principle of parameters) In fact, the language is not only governed by either procedural or parametric principles, but there are constitutive non-formal principles. This paper also discussed the problems of Computational Linguistics in connection with Indian plurilingual milieu. COLOPHON: The author is thankful to Prof. N. Chomsky as he answered all these questions with patience and promised to drop the term “computation” from the technical vocabulary of syntax as he wrote, “On the use of computers as a metaphor, I actually rare do, and I’ve been pretty explicit in warning that the metaphor isn’t to be taken too seriously. Like any metaphor, if it helps clarify thought and stimulates imagination, fine; if it leads to error, as this one constantly has, then drop it.” (personal correspondence, 13/2/1995)

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    In this paper the notions of computational linguistics as having been propounded by Noam Chomskey's methology and those of
    the opponents to his theory have been discussed in a way of dialog. These problems have also been discussed in relation to
    the problems of both Natural and Social Sciences to suggest means to tackle the complexities of Indian Multilingualism

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    Academic Paper
    Title: A Dialogue on Computational and Chomskian Linguistics
    Paper URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2458695
    Author: Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay
    Email: click here to access email
    Homepage: http://isid.academia.edu/DebaprasadBandyopadhyay
    Institution: Indian Statistical Institute
    Linguistic Field: Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics
    Abstract: This is an imagined dialogic paper on the problems of perceiving creative speaking subjects' corporeal as
    machine. The author alleged that the one of the basic tenets in Chomskys discourse, due to its Cartesian
    inheritance, was to consider human body as a machine, thus Chomskian syntactic enterprise had become
    a part of the anatomo-bio-political project a la Foucault. It was a case of minimization, approximation,
    optimization, appropriation of human body, when Chomsky and his fellowmen (like Lasnik, Berwick)
    deployed technocratic metaphors (e.g., the terms like "Computation", "array" "interface", "parser", etc. on
    the other hand, operations like "COMMAND", "SATISFY", "SPELL OUT". All these operations reflect the
    metonymic transformation of creative speaking subject, as all these functions in uppercase letter made the
    author remember Schanks [1975] language-free representations [PROPEL, MOVE, INGEST or
    CONTROL, PART etc.], which combine primitive conceptual roles and categories.) for explaining a part of
    cognitive domain, that is a "physical organ": LAD. These were not metaphors or case of displacement only,
    but was a case of metonymic transformation of human body as these technical metaphors condense the
    scope of human (linguistic) potentiality. Does human body follow binary mechanical algorithm only at the
    moment of speaking? Do we not have extra-/non-algorithmic cognitive ability? (The authors point is that
    Cognitive Domain is not algorithmic only.) The discourse that Chomskians are using is fully algocentric (a
    discourse that is motivated by meta-mathematical formalism or computational algorithmic simulation guided
    by the technical rationality, ignoring the non-algorithmic constitutive rules) in its nature. According to
    authors perception, Chomsky wanted to build up a Turing Machine for solving each linguistic problem
    without solving the halting problem of the machine. Chomskys parametric approach was "computerfriendly" as language was perceived as a network of interlocking principles and parsing as linear steps. A
    parser would supply, in the same manner of Searles Chinese Room Puzzle, "yes/no answers" to the
    question: "Is this sentence grammatical?". One could switch over from one parameter to another to
    manage a specific language like a machine (it seemed to the author that this was a Leibnizian Turn in
    Chomskian Theory; he was switching over from Cartesian Cogito to Monad-Universal of all universalsMonad of all monads-Principle of parameters) In fact, the language is not only governed by either
    procedural or parametric principles, but there are constitutive non-formal principles.
    This paper also discussed the problems of Computational Linguistics in connection with Indian plurilingual
    milieu.
    COLOPHON: The author is thankful to Prof. N. Chomsky as he answered all these questions with patience
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    and promised to drop the term "computation" from the technical vocabulary of syntax as he wrote, "On the
    use of computers as a metaphor, I actually rare do, and Ive been pretty explicit in warning that the
    metaphor isnt to be taken too seriously. Like any metaphor, if it helps clarify thought and stimulates
    imagination, fine; if it leads to error, as this one constantly has, then drop it." (personal correspondence,
    13/2/1995)
    Type: Individual Paper
    Status: Completed
    Publication Info: Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol .XXIII, No.2 (pp.29-42). Delhi. ISSN 0379-0037
    URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2458695

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