Drie benaderingswyses in die moderne taalwetenskap: 'n Metodologiese besinning

Abstract

The author refers to the three main approaches to be distinguished in linguistics in the twentieth century: Halliday's distinction of transformational generative, non-textual and textual approaches. The author intends in the course of the paper to distinguish three fundamental approaches, viz. Structuralism. Functionalism and Transformational-generativism. These three trends in linguistics will be seen as methods about which methodological judgements may be made. A distinction will be drawn between method and methodology. The three approaches are then critically examined by way of examples.