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

ISBN-13: 9780415104104 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 360 str.

Paul J. Thibault

Opis

Through a re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault presents a means to redefine and refocus the 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. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Paul J. Thibault