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Record Nr.

UNINA9910390856203321

Autore

Stawarska Beata

Titolo

Saussure's Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology : The Course in General Linguistics after a Century / / by Beata Stawarska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030430979

3030430979

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

410.92

100

Soggetti

Phenomenology

Language and languages - Philosophy

Linguistics - Methodology

Philosophy of Language

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Recent developments in Saussurean linguistics -- Chapter 3. Making the Course: book-writing and reviewing -- Chapter 4. La langue, the proper object of linguistics -- Chapter 5. The linguistic sign and the language system -- Chapter 6. A sociohistorical view of cultural signification -- Chapter 7. Derrida and Saussure: entrainment and contamination -- Chapter 8. The principle of duality: synchrony and diachrony -- Chapter 9. Beyond the doctrine: linguistic innovation -- Chapter 10. Language and languages -- Chapter 11. The structuralist legacy: a modern human science. Chapter 12. Post-structuralism: the end of the book and the beginning of writing -- Chapter 13. The phenomenological legacy: speaking subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today. It critically assesses the relation



between materials from the Course and from the linguist's Nachlass (works unpublished or even unknown at Saussure's death, some of them recently discovered). This book pays close attention to the set of oppositional pairings: the signifier and the signified, la langue (language system) and la parole (speech), and synchrony and diachrony, that became the hallmark of structuralism across the humanities. Sometimes referred to as the "Saussurean doctrine," this hierarchical conceptual apparatus becomes revised in favor of a horizontal set of relations, which co-involves speaking subjects and linguistic structures. This book documents the continued relevance of Saussure's linguistics in the 21st Century, and it sheds light on its legacy within structuralism and phenomenology. The reader can consult the book on its own, or in tandem with the 1916 Course.