Talbot Taylor

Louise G.T. Cooley Professor of English & Linguistics

Office: Tucker Hall 214
Phone: 757-221-3940
Office Hours: Monday 3.20-4, Tuesday 10.50-11.30 and by appointment (Fall 2025)
Email: [[txtayl]]
Webpage: {{https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Talbot-Taylor-2}}

Areas of Specialization

Language theory, language and culture, history of linguistic ideas, pragmatics, philosophy of language

Books

Taylor, Talbot, John E. Joseph, and Nigel Love. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II. London: Routledge, 2001.

Taylor, Talbot, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Stuart G. Shanker. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

Taylor, Talbot, and Roy Harris. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure. London: Routledge, 1997.

Taylor, Talbot. Theorizing Language: Analysis, Normativity, Rhetoric, History. Amsterdam: Pergamon, 1997.

Taylor, Talbot. Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation. Durham: Duke UP, 1992.

Background

M.A., Tufts University; M.Lit. and D.Phil., University of Oxford

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