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Author: John E. Joseph (Head of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.10cm
, Height: 5.00cm
, Length: 25.10cm
Weight: 1.536kg
ISBN: 9780199695652
ISBN 10: 0199695652
Pages: 794
Publication Date: 22 March 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The present work is now the biography of Saussure. There is, quite simply, no other work today in English that has the breadth and range of this one in laying out the personal details of Saussure's life...this is a substantive and erudite overview, analysis, and assessment of the life and work of this seminal linguist. D.B. Boersema, Choice Joseph's massive, meticulous book is a heroic biography, tightly focused on its protagonist and with a melodramatic, if not tragic, tone of knowing retrospection. Michael Silverstein, London Review of Books This book will be essential reading for any student of Saussure. Colin MacCabe, New Statesman John E. Joseph's biography is a rich, scholarly account, exhaustively detailed, pursuing the Saussure family back into the fifteenth century and forward to the present day Patrick Wilcken, Literary Review Each serious study of a great scientist's life is bound to leave us reflecting on that truth, and linguist John E. Joseph's monumental Saussure is no exception. ... This rich account - sympathetic, respectful and sensitive to political and intellectual context - reveals how Saussure, a dazzling and driven scholar from a bourgeois Swiss family, blazed trails to new vistas of social science that opened out in the century after his death. John A. Goldsmith, Nature John Joseph has made excellent use of the manuscripts preserved in the Geneva library Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement
John E. Joseph's biography is a rich, scholarly account, exhaustively detailed, pursuing the Saussure family back into the fifteenth century and forward to the present day Patrick Wilcken, Literary Review Each serious study of a great scientist's life is bound to leave us reflecting on that truth, and linguist John E. Joseph's monumental Saussure is no exception. ... This rich account - sympathetic, respectful and sensitive to political and intellectual context - reveals how Saussure, a dazzling and driven scholar from a bourgeois Swiss family, blazed trails to new vistas of social science that opened out in the century after his death. John A. Goldsmith, Nature John Joseph has made excellent use of the manuscripts preserved in the Geneva library Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Head of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Language and Politics (2006), Language and Identity (2004) and, with Nigel Love and Talbot J. Taylor, Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century (2001). He is also the editor of Language and Politics: Major Themes in English Studies, 4 Vl (2010) and (with Talbot J. Taylor) of the journal Language & Communication.
