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This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349239631
This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312126780
This clearly and wittily written book, at once scrupulously fair and sharply critical, subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to a careful examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333639269
This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
Author : David Holdcroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521339186
This book offers a critical assessment of Saussure's central ideas.
Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191636975
"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.) No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers and detractors reducing them to a paragraph's worth of ideas that can be readily quoted, debated, memorized, and examined. One can argue the ideas expressed above - that language is composed of a system of acoustic oppositions (the signifier) matched by social convention to a system of conceptual oppositions (the signified) - have in some sense become "Saussure", while the human being, in all his complexity, has disappeared. In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences. Through a far-reaching account of Saussure's life and the time in which he lived, we learn about the history of Geneva, of Genevese educational institutions, of linguistics, about Saussure's ancestry, about his childhood, his education, the fortunes of his relatives, and his personal life in Paris. John Joseph intersperses all these discussions with accounts of Saussure's research and the courses he taught highlighting the ways in which knowing about his friendships and family history can help us understand not only his thoughts and ideas but also his utter failure to publish any major work after the age of twenty-one.
Author : Paul J. Thibault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135093156
Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus our theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate from our individual and social practices of making meaning. In this challenging book, Thibault presents a different view of Saussure. Paying close attention to the original texts, including the Cours de Linguistic Generale he demonstrates that Saussure was centrally concerned with trying to formulate a theory of how meanings are made.Re-reading Saussure does more than simply engage with Saussure's theory in a new and up-to-date way, however. In addition to demonstrating the continuing viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples, it makes an important intervention in contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate.
Author : Russell Daylight
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748687505
This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today.
Author : Pieter Seuren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004378154
In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language.
Author : Harris Roy Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1474468845
This book is the first major reassessment of the reception of Saussure's ideas throughout the twentieth century. That Saussure's work profoundly influenced developments in such diverse fields as linguistics, anthropology, psychology and literary studies is denied by no one. But what exactly Saussure's views were taken to be by his interpreters has not hitherto been subject to any comprehensive critical survey. How well were Saussure's ideas understood by those who took them up? Or how badly misunderstood? And why? The answers to these questions address central issues in the history of Western culture.Each chapter focuses on one particular interpreter of Saussure's work, but many others are mentioned in context for purposes of comparison, and attention is drawn to connections and disparities between their interpretations. Those whose interpretations are examined in detail include Bloomfield, Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, Chomsky, Barthes and Derrida.Features:* The author is acknowledged as an expert on Saussure's work* This is the first study of the reception of Saussure's ideas, and how well they were understood by those who took them up* The work of Saussure is a landmark in the history of linguistic thought
Author : Carol Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521804868
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