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Author:   Ken Hirschkop (Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.582kg
ISBN:  

9780198745778

ISBN 10:   019874577
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   10 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface 1: Introduction: Linguistic turns as social theory Part I: Order 2: 'Grammar can only be studied in the crowd': Reason, analogy, and the nature of social consent (Ferdinand de Saussure) 3: The ship of logic on the high seas of discourse (Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, a little Gilbert Ryle) 4: Saussure and the Soviets (Kartsevskii, G. O. Vinokur, Iakubinskii) 5: On the diversityDLand productivityDLof language (M. M. Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Saussure) Part II: Myth 6: Do they believe in magic? The word as myth, name, and art (C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Frege, George Orwell, Bakhtin, Saussure) 7: Myth you can believe in (Ernst Cassirer, Viktor Shklovskii, Velimir Khlebnikov, Roman Jakobson, Benjamin) Excursus: Reversing out: Sorel's heroic myth, Gramsci's slow magic 8: High anxiety, becalmed language, ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin) Conclusion: Motorways and Cul-de-sacs: What the linguistic turns turned to

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erudite, intellectually coherent and often brilliantly perspicacious study * Tony Crowley, University of Leeds, Key Words *

erudite, intellectually coherent and often brilliantly perspicacious study -- Tony Crowley, University of Leeds, Key Words

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Ken Hirschkop is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.

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