Re-reading Saussure: The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life

Paul J. Thibault

ISBN 10: 0415104114 / ISBN 13: 9780415104111

Verlag: Routledge, London, 1997

Beschreibung

Large 8vo. xxii (iv), 360 pp, list of figures, list of tables, preface, acknowledgments, Part I. Constructing a Science of Signs; Part II. Langue as Social-Semiological System; Part III. Langue and Parole: Re=Articulating the Links; Part IV. Linguistic Value; Part V. Sign and Signification; Part VI. Sign, Discourse and Social Meaning-Making; postscript, appendix, references, name and subject indices. First Paperback Edition, 1997. A few ink marks on the first page of Table of Contents, else, Pristine, no wear. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 5.5x7.75. Decorative wrappers. "Through a detailed re-reading of Saussure's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, the author provides us with the means to re-define and re-focus our theories of social meaning-making." Size: Large Octavo.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Re-reading Saussure: The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life
• Verlag: Routledge, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415104114
• ISBN-13: 9780415104111
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: First Paperback Edition.
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Buchtyp: Book
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  • LINGUISTICS

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Paul J. Thibault