Dr. Taylor has a long affinity for rugby from his days at Oxford University and has served our Club for many years as our faculty advisor. Dr. Taylor helps to sort out the dual mission for our players, academic success, of course, yet preserving the player's committment to rugby excellence, as well. "Tolly" stands ready to counsel the lads with this message. Dr. Taylor has mentored Rhodes Scholars at William and Mary and has a long record of professional excellence in the academic community. Scroll down for more particulars.

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EDUCATION

Oxford University, D.Phil. (1982), M.Litt.(1979)

Tufts University, M.A. (1975), B.A. (1974)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics, Collegeof William and Mary

Director, Program in Linguistics

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Co-Editor of Language & Communication: an interdisciplinaryjournal. Pergamon Press: Oxford.
Associate Editor of Language Sciences. PergamonPress: Oxford.
Series Editor: "Routledge History of Linguistics Series",Routledge: London.
Series Co-Editor: "Routledge Politics of Language Series",Routledge: London.
Advisory Editorial Board: Eighteenth-Century Life,Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
Advisory Editorial Board: Histoire, Epistémologie,Langage, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.
Treasurer, North American Association for the Historyof the Language Sciences.
International Committee, Societé d'histoireet d'épistémologie des sciences du langage.
Executive Committee, International Association forthe Integrational Study of Language and Communication

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1994-95
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend1993
National Endowment for the Humanities, College Teachers'Fellowship, 1989-90
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend1988
Residency Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Humanities,Autumn 1986
Teaching Fellowship, Ministère de L'EducationNationale, U. de Rennes II, France,1985
American Society for 18th-Century Studies/ Folger LibraryFellowship, Washington, D.C., 1985

Outstanding Faculty Award, State of Virginia, 1999
Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, College of William &Mary 1988
Alumni Teaching Fellowship, College of William &Mary 1988

BOOKS

Theorizing Language: analysis, normativity, rhetoric,history, Pergamon Press: Oxford. 1997

Apes, Language and the Human Mind, (with S.Savage-Rumbaughand S.Shanker). Oxford University Press, New York. 1998.

Gengoron no randomaaku: sokuratesu kara soshuuru made,Taishukan Publishing Co.: Tokyo, 1997.
(Japanese translation of Landmarks in Linguistic Thought).

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Traditionfrom Socrates to Saussure, 2nd expanded edition, (with R. Harris),Routledge: London and New York. 1997 (First edition, 1989).

Mutual Misunderstanding: Communicational Scepticismand the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation,Duke University Press: Durham, N.C. and Routledge: London, 1992

L’incomprensione linguistica - Lo scetticismo e lateorizazione del linguaggio e dell’interpretazione, G.Laterza PublishingCo., Rome, 1996. (Italian translation of Mutual Misunderstanding).

Analysing Conversation: Rules and units in the structureof talk (with D. Cameron), Pergamon Press:
Oxford 1987.

Linguistic Theory and Structural Stylistics, PergamonPress: Oxford, 1981.

Edited volumes

Ideologies of Language (with J. Joseph), Routledge:London and New York, 1990.

Redefining Linguistics (with H. Davis), Routledge:London and New York, 1990.

The Philosophy of Linguistics. Special guest-editedissue of Language Sciences, vol.19, no.1, 1997.

"The House that Bruner Built" (with S.G. Shanker). InLanguage, Culture, Self: The Philosophical Psychology of Jerome Bruner(D. Bakhurst and S. Shanker, eds),. London: Sage, in press.

"Ape Linguistics: Is Kanzi a Cartesian?" (with S.G. Shanker).In Linguistic Historiography 1996 (D. Cram et al, editors),Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, in press.

"Apes with language" (with S.Savage-Rumbaugh and S.G.Shanker). In Critical Quarterly, vol.38, no.3, pps. 45-57, 1996.

"The Anthropomorphic and the Sceptical". In Language& Communication, Special Issue on "Primate Communication" (B.J.King, guest editor), vol.14, no.1, pps. 115-127, 1994.

"Why we need a theory of language", in Linguisticsand Philosophy: The Controversial Interface (Harré and Harris,eds.), Oxford: Pergamon, pps.233-48, 1993.

"Communicational Scepticism and the Discourse of Order"in New Departures in Linguistics (G. Wolf, editor), New York: GarlandPress, pps. 163-79, 1992.

"Liberalism in Lockean Linguistics" in HistoriographiaLinguistica, vol.XVII, no.1/2, pps. 99-1O9, 199O and reprinted in NorthAmerican Perspectives in Linguistic Historiography (F. Dinneen, editor).Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 199O.

"Condillac: Language as an Analytic Method", Language& Communication, vol. 9, no.4, pp. 289-97, 1989.

"Alan Gardiner's The Theory of Speech and Language:Empiricist Pragmatics" in Linguistic Thought in England, 1914-1945(Roy Harris, editor). London: Duckworth, 1988

"Do You Understand? Criteria of understanding in verbalinteraction" in Language & Communication, vol.6, no.3, pps.171-18O, 1986

"Editing Rules and Understanding: the case against sentence-basedsyntax" in Language & Communication, vol.4, no.2, pps. 105-127,1984

"Recent Trends in Stylistics" (with M. Toolan) in Journalof Literary Semantics, vol.13, no.1, pps. 57-79, 1984. Reprinted inThe Stylistics Reader (J.-J. Weber, Editor). London: Arnold, 1996.

"Linguistic Origins: Bruner and Condillac on learninghow to talk" in Language & Communication, vol.4, no.4, pps.209-224, 1984.

"Communication and Literary Style" in Poetics Today,vol.3, no.4, pps.39-51, 1982.

"Performatives and the Descriptivist's Dilemmas" (withG. Wolf) in Journal of Linguistics, vol. 17, no.2, pps. 329-32,1981.

"A Wittgensteinian Perspective in Linguistics" in Language& Communication, vol.1, no.2-3, pps. 263-274, 1981.

"Linguistic Agency and the Normativity of Language" inThe Sixteenth Lacus Forum, Lake Bluff, Ill.: Linguistics Associationof Canada and the United States, pps. 122-13O, 1991.

"Free Will vs. Arbitrariness in the History of the LinguisticSign" in History and Historiography of Linguistics (Niederehe andKoerner, editors), Amsterdam: J.Benjamins, pps. 79-89, 199O.

"Locke on the imperfection of language" in Newsletterfor the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, no.11,1988.

"The Place of Charles Bally in the Lockean Tradition"in Papers in the History of Linguistics (Aarsleff, H. etal, editors), J.Benjamins: Philadelphia, pps. 6O7-614, 1987.

"Roy Harris and the Philosophy of Linguistics". In ThePhilosophy of Linguistics, special guest-edited issue of LanguageSciences (T.J. Taylor, editor), vol.19, no.1, pps. 1-6, 1997.

"The Origin of Language: Why it never happened". In ThePhilosophy of Linguistics, special guest-edited issue of LanguageSciences (T.J. Taylor, editor), vol.19, no.1, pps. 67-78, 1997.

"Which is to be Master? The Institutionalization of Authorityin the Science of Language" in Ideologies of Language (Joseph andTaylor, eds), London and New York: Routledge, pps. 9-26, 1990.

"Normativity and Lingistic Form" in Redefining Linguistics(Davis and Taylor, eds.), London: Routledge, pps. 118-148, 1990.

"Language Assessment and Remediation Screening Procedure"in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychology (Harré and Lamb,editors), Blackwell: Oxford, 1983.

"Speech Disorders" in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychology(Harré and Lamb, editors), Blackwell: Oxford, 1983.

"Psycholinguistics" (with C. Hutton) in EncyclopedicDictionary of Psychology (Harré and Lamb, editors), Blackwell:Oxford, 1983.

"John Locke" in the Pergamon Encyclopedia of Languageand Linguistics (R. Asher, editor), Pergamon: Oxford 1994.

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