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Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars and here, for the first time, a selection of these are made available in English for a new generation of linguists and philosophers of language. This Reader, featuring fourteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of Meschonnic's theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your understanding of language. It explores his key ideas on poetics, the poem, rhythm, discourse and his critique of the sign. Meschonnic's vast oeuvre was continuously preoccupied with the question of a poetics of society; he constantly connected the theory of language to its practice in various fields and interrogated what that means for society. In exploring this fundamental question, this book is central to the study and philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as translation studies, poetics and literary studies, and in redefining notions such as rhythm, modernity, the poem and the subject.

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Henri Meschonnic, 'the great Absent of the 21st-century study of language, poetics and translation', is made vividly and urgently present in this scrupulously prepared selection of thematized extracts. And the contexts of Meschonnic's thinking are sympathetically explored in introductory essays which ensure that the reader enters the debate fully equipped.--Professor Clive Scott, University of East Anglia

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Marko Pajevic is Professor of German Studies at the University of Tartu. Pier-Pascale Boulanger is a Professor at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), where she teaches and researches literary as well as financial translation Andrew Eastman is maître de conférences in English at the University of Strasbourg John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and currently holds a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. His previous book, Language and Identity (2004) has found a wide readership among sociologists, political scientists, historians, anthropologists and others besides linguists, many of whom will want to read his Language and Politics as its successor and complement. David Nowell Smith is Senior Lecturer in Poetry/Poetics at the University of East Anglia. Marko Pajevic is Professor of German Studies at the University of Tartu. Chantal Wright is a literary translator and Associate Professor of Translation as a Literary Practice in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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