"theory of language" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing theoretical frameworks related to language. For example, "The Chomskyan theory of language posits that language is innate and universal."
This is a correspondence theory of language with a vengeance.
The New Yorker, March 30 , 1987P. 21 Americans have a peculiar relationship to the history and theory of language.
A new school of thought, cognitive science, arose, based on Chomsky's theory of language, along with notions about artificial intelligence.
In the 19th century, the founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure, made arbitrariness the central plank of his theory of language.
By Adam Gopnik The New Yorker, March 30 , 1987P. 21 Americans have a peculiar relationship to the history and theory of language.
The toddler was absorbing the lesson in prosody through endless repetition — an example, one might argue, of Edward Sapir's cultural theory of language acquisition at work.
Mr Quine developed a theory of language according to which truths of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no absolute distinction between the two.
Soon thereafter, new developments of Aristotle's theory of language and logic took place, partly as a result of the recently acquired knowledge of his Sophistical Refutations.
In it, he withdraws from the extreme standpoint of prewar existentialism - that Being is fixed by historical and cultural circumstance, replacing this ontological radicalism with a theory of language.
"Zettel's Traum" is both Schmidt's most famous book and his least read, and for the same reason: it is dedicated almost entirely to applying a Freudian theory of language to the works of Poe.
Marr took his ideas further in 1924, proposing a monogenetic theory of language: all languages evolved from one original made up of four basic elements (sal, ber, yon, rosh).
