Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Book

This is a really well-written introduction to Linguistic Thought for two reasons. First, it is lucid and interesting to read. The authors present each thinker with an interesting extract from an important text, and then present the thinker's main standpoint in a way that is neither too simplified nor too academic. Second, it successfully bridges the gap between linguistics and philosophy. Too often, philosophers of language don't bother to consider up-to-date linguistic thought, and likewise many linguists work within their own field and don't bother discussing their work from a philosophical viewpoint. An exception to this trend is of course Noam Chomsky, but his work is not discussed in this book. Both Chomsky and the influential Ludwig Wittgenstein (that I feel every linguist should try to read!) are presented in Volume II in this series, a book I have yet to purchase and read.