Re-reading Saussure
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-10411-1 (ISBN)
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.
Paul J. Thibault
Part I: Constructing a science of signs; Chapter 1: Defining the object of study; Chapter 2: Saussure's social-semiological metatheory; Part II: Langue as social-semiological system; Chapter 3: Saussure's three conceptions of the language system; Chapter 4: The time-dependent nature of langue; Part III: Langue and parole: re-articulating the links; Chapter 5: Parole and the individual; Chapter 6: The speech circuit; Part IV: Linguistic value; Chapter 7: Linguistic value and how language construes the world; Chapter 8: Linguistic and economic value; Part V: Sign and signification; Chapter 9: The linguistic sign; Chapter 10: The symbolic character of the sign; Part VI: Sign, discourse and social meaning-making; Chapter 11: Dimensions of contextualization; Chapter 12: Arbitrariness and motivation in the sign; Chapter 13: Making and motivating signs in discourse; Postscript
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.11.1996 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 700 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-10411-4 / 0415104114 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-10411-1 / 9780415104111 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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