Chomsky
(Avram) Noam
[nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
Contemporary Examples
When was the first time you heard about Chomsky, and what did you hear?
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? Jimmy So November 19, 2013
But he knows that he is just a dawdler compared to Chomsky, the great big mindbender.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? Jimmy So November 19, 2013
More specifically, Chomsky has changed how we view language and the brain—he has bent the structure of the mind.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? Jimmy So November 19, 2013
As Gondry asks Chomsky about his childhood, the answer soon becomes clear: a skeptical, inquisitive, combative mind.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? Jimmy So November 19, 2013
For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary David Masciotra September 27, 2014
The rest of the essays and lectures in The Masters of Mankind show how Chomsky insists on breaking all the rules.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary David Masciotra September 27, 2014
The closing lecture also presents questions that Chomsky never answers—mainly one of alternatives.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary David Masciotra September 27, 2014
Zinn and Chomsky edited the documents into the four volumes released by Senator Mike Gravel and Beacon Press starting in 1971.
Inside Howard Zinn’s FBI Files Clark Merrefield July 29, 2010
noun
(Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
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