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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 It critically assesses the relation between materials from the Course and from the linguist’s Nachlass (works unpublished or even unknown at Saussure’s death, some of them recently discovered).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.

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Author:   Beata Stawarska
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030430962

ISBN 10:   3030430960
Pages:   133
Publication Date:   24 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Beata Stawarska is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is an author of Saussure’s Philosophy of Language (2015), Between You and I (2009), and numerous essays in contemporary Continental and feminist philosophy.

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