Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, By Noam Choomsky

“Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” is a sentence created by Noam Chomsky who is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, political activist, and sometimes described as ‘’ the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also an important figure in analytic philosophy. “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” is a significant sentence related to syntactic structure which is grammatically correct, however, semantically nonsensical. It demonstrates that a sentence can be grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical. According to Chomsky language is infinite, with no end to the number of probable sentences that people can produce and comprehend. In this paper, “Colorless Green
It focuses on the concrete details of what is going on between individuals in everyday life. Interactionists study how we use and interpret symbols not only to communicate with each other, but also to create and maintain impressions of ourselves, and to create what we experience as the reality of a particular social situation. For Mead, mind, body, and conduct are inseparable aspects of a process of evolution that has produced a unique human life form. All organisms come into existence and persist in interaction with their environments. When people are heard the sentence of “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” they do not understand anything because there is a confusion in this sentence and also it seems meaningless unless the people who read this sentence have linguistic consciousness. When some people read this sentence and do not understand anything, some people who read this sentence find it an important sentence for linguistic because this people have knowledge about syntax and semantics, it is related to interactionist
According to Bower & Hilgard (1981) cognitive theories stress the acquisition of knowledge and internal mental structures and, as such, are closer to the rationalist end of the epistemology continuum. The mind of people can produce different sentences such as “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” or “Furiously sleep ideas green colorless” and cognitive theory examines this kind of sentences in order to solve the problem. The first sentece has a suitable grammatical structure but it is complicated, and in the second sentence there is grammatical eror and it includes coherent meaning so people can understand easily. Cognitivism supports second sentence because it has coherent meaning without grammatical