Professor of English

 

afmch@uaa.alaska.edu

Michael Haley, PhD, Florida State University, specializes in linguistics, semiotics, stylistics, and figurative language. Haley's publications include Noam Chomsky (Twayne, 1994) with R. Lunsford, The Semeiosis of Poetic Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 1989) and The Peirce Seminar Papers (Managing Editor), volumes 1-4 (1993-99).

	Noam Chomsky
	An exploration of the genesis and meaning of Noam Chomsky's contributions to the study of linguistics and his influence on political thought. Based largely on interviews with Chomsky, the authors do a fine job in describing how his thinking evolved and what it meant to the advancement of linguistics.

	The Peirce Seminar Papers
	Since the modern founding of the theory of signs by the American philosopher scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1837-1914), the field of semiotics has become increasingly prominent as a method of interdisciplinary research and study, bridging the humanities, the fine arts and the natural and social sciences.