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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453797503321

Autore

Sériot Patrick

Titolo

Structure and the whole : east, west and non-Darwinian biology in the origins of structural linguistics / / Patrick Sériot ; translated from French by Amy Jacobs-Colas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61451-827-0

1-61451-529-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition, , 1867-0873 ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

410.1/8

Soggetti

Linguistics - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Structural linguistics

Eurasian school

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- First part: Background -- Chapter 1. The question of boundaries -- Chapter 2. The Eurasianist movement -- Second part: Closure -- Chapter 3. The space factor -- Chapter 4. Continuous and discontinuous -- Chapter 5. Evolutionism or diffusionism? -- Third part: Nature -- Chapter 6. Affinities -- Chapter 7. The biological model -- Chapter 8. The theory of correspondences -- Fourth part: Science -- Chapter 9. Personology and synthesizing the sciences -- Chapter 10. Holism: What is a whole? -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

Sommario/riassunto

This bookidentifies the Romantic notion of the whole as the fundamental epistemological source of the notion of structure in the thinking of the Prague Linguistic Circle, primarily its Russian representatives, and studies what amounted to the slow, painful process of disengagement from the organicist metaphor in an intellectual world very different from Saussure's.