'To Speak is Never Neutral' presents a vital selection of the range of Luce Irigaray's writings, revealing the origin and development of many ideas central to her thought. The earliest essays included here reveal Irigaray's debt to structural linguistics and deconstruction drawn from her initial studies in the language of schizophrenia. The later essays present Irigaray's highly original explorations of psychoanalysis and language. Seminal essays published here include The Rape of the Letter, Sex as Sign, the Setting in Psychoanalysis, The Poverty of Psychoanalysis, The Language of Man, The Limits of Transference and In Science, Is the Subject Sexed.
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"This book is exactly what the title and subtitle imply: it is a short introduction to the study of words... This text fulfills its purpose admirably. It is a very good read as well, drawing on a remarkable knowledge of language and languages. One feature that is quite helpful is the use of bold test for terms which are deemed important enough to make it into the glossary, allowing for easy cross reference...This text makes fascinating foray into these matters from the perspective of the word, though, and for that alone is valuable to those who lean towards a social and functional view of language." --The Linguist List (Derek Irwin )
“This book is exactly what the title and subtitle imply: it is a short introduction to the study of words… This text fulfills its purpose admirably. It is a very good read as well, drawing on a remarkable knowledge of language and languages. One feature that is quite helpful is the use of bold test for terms which are deemed important enough to make it into the glossary, allowing for easy cross reference…This text makes fascinating foray into these matters from the perspective of the word, though, and for that alone is valuable to those who lean towards a social and functional view of language.” –The Linguist List (, )
“This book is exactly what the title and subtitle imply: it is a short introduction to the study of words… This text fulfills its purpose admirably. It is a very good read as well, drawing on a remarkable knowledge of language and languages. One feature that is quite helpful is the use of bold test for terms which are deemed important enough to make it into the glossary, allowing for easy cross reference…This text makes fascinating foray into these matters from the perspective of the word, though, and for that alone is valuable to those who lean towards a social and functional view of language.” –The Linguist List (, )
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M. A. K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australis.
Colin Yallop is Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia.
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This is one heck of a beautifully written little book. It starts out addressing the question of what is a word, then goes on to discuss the dictionary and the thesaurus, very effectively contrasting the two in structure and in approach. It gives a nice overview of the development of dictionaries going back over two millennia, and then discusses the more recent evolution of the dictionary and of the thesaurus in England. There are sections on words in language, words and meaning, etymology, prescription vs. description, the relation between language and reality, and the relationship between language and culture. There is a beautiful little section dealing with the problems of translation. Throughout, there are copious and well-selected and -described examples of the various points that the authors make. The content is very interesting, and the writing is superb, thus infusing with life and with interest what might easily have degenerated into a dry tome. I found myself unable to put the book down, so fascinating was it. I read all 104 pages in two sittings, and took copious notes. A lovely work, which was a pleasure to read.
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