•The Noam chomsky father of modern Linguistics • ttt 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.