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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Far and away the best book on Saussure's Cours that I know of...meticulously detailed, scrupulous, well-informed...a fundamentally challenging text.
–Gunther Kress, University of London
–Gunther Kress, University of London
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Commentators such as Jonathan Culler (1976) and Terence Hawkes (1977) have tended to emphasize the Copernican revolution, as Roy Harris (in Saussure 1983: ix) puts it, which was inaugurated with the posthumous publication of Saussure's CLG. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Commentators such as Jonathan Culler (1976) and Terence Hawkes (1977) have tended to emphasize the Copernican revolution, as Roy Harris (in Saussure 1983: ix) puts it, which was inaugurated with the posthumous publication of Saussure's CLG. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roy Harris, Carrier Process, Lewis Carroll, Token Process, Terence Hawkes New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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