The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
by Geoffrey K. Pullum

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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (1991) by Geoffrey K. Pullum.

Overview:

Reprints the 23 essays by Pullum and published 1983-1989 as TOPIC ... COMMENT columns (irreverent-yet-informed, casual-yet-cogent) in the first 23 issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT).
Also our book log entry.

Sections:

  1. Prologue: the TOPIC ... COMMENT column

    Part I Fashion and Tendencies.

  2. Watch out for the current.
  3. The stranger in the bar
  4. If it's Tuesday, this must be glossematics
  5. The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry
  6. Chomsky on the Enterprise
  7. Formal linguistics meets the Boojum

    Part II Publication and Damnation.

  8. Stalking the perfect journal
  9. Punctuation and human freedom
  10. A guest of the State
  11. Seven deadly sins in journal publishing
  12. The linguistics of defamation
  13. Trench-mouth comes to Trumpington Street
  14. Here come the linguistic fascists

    Part III Unscientific Behavior.

  15. The revenge of the methodological moaners
  16. Footloose and context-free
  17. Nobody goes around at LSA meeting offering odds
  18. Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome
  19. The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax

    Part IV Linguistic Fantasies.

  20. No trips to Stockholm
  21. A memo from the Vice Chancellor
  22. Some lists of things about books
  23. The incident of the node vortex problem
  24. Epilogue: The Final Curtain

Chapters:

The articles have enough jargon to let you know that they are not intended for the general reader. But that never stopped me from reading a funny book. Some key quotes for some of the chapters follow. See: Vocabulary hoax.

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