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Books on: saussure linguistics

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The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure

Book by Roy Harris, Talbot J. Taylor; Routledge, 1997

Subjects:

Language And Languages--Philosophy, Linguistics--History

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

As readers are introduced to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent.
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A Short History of Structural Linguistics

Book by Peter Matthews; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Structural Linguistics--History

Collections: Entire Library

This book is a concise historical survey of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. Peter Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyzes the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He ...
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This book is a concise historical survey of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. Peter Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyzes the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the "Chomskyan revolution" in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning. The book includes exposition, in particular, of the contributions of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.
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Toward a History of American Linguistics

Book by E. F.K. Koerner; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Historical Linguistics, Linguistics--United States--History

Collections: Entire Library

Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas ...
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Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.Topics covered include:* The sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'* Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique gÃ©nÃ©rale * The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography* The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics*William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America. Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of linguistics and the history of linguistics.
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Linguistics in America, 1769-1924: A Critical History

Book by Julie Tetel Andresen; Routledge, 1990

Subjects:

Linguistics--United States--History

Collections: Entire Library

Throughout this analytical book the idea is developed that theories of language do not transcend the language in which they are written, and ways are uncovered that are peculiar to the American-language linguistic tradition.
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Rethinking Linguistics

Book by Hayley G. Davis, Talbot J. Taylor; Routledge/Curzon, 2002

Subjects:

Linguistics--Methodology, Linguistics--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to this basic problem within general ...
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This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to this basic problem within general linguistics. The book is aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, comprising those engaged in study, teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, philosophy, sociology and psychology.
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Journal Articles on: saussure linguistics

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The History of Faunal Terms in Austronesian Languages

Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 41, 2002

Subjects:

Austronesian languages--Research, Historical linguistics--Research, Language and languages--Word frequency, Linguistic paleontology--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a fairly long history in linguistics, particularly in connection...linguistic reconstruction. Saussure (1959) credits the Celticist...tradition in Indo European linguistics is seen in the more recent...the evidence of comparative linguistics may help to resolve not only...
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Qieyun and Yunjing: The Essential Foundation for Chinese Historical Linguistics

Journal article by Edwin G. Pulleyblank; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998

Subjects:

China--Languages, Chinese language--Research, Chinese--Languages, Historical linguistics--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...advocated in the structural linguistics of Saussure and Bloomfield. His work was...China and the world history of linguistics. Apart from the insight...August 15-17, 1980, Section on Linguistics and Paleography, 121-83...
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Valentinus et Nomina: Saussure, Plato, and Signification

Journal article by Rondo Keele; Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2004

Subjects:

Names--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy--Criticism and interpretation, Valentinus--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...sympathetic to both Valentinian theology and Saussurean linguistics. One such reading of name-talk in the Gospel...Foucault. It would be hard to underestimate Saussures short-term impact on linguistics, social sciences, literary theory, and...
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Constitutive Elements of the Discourse of Natural Instruction in Rousseau's Emile: Situations and Implications

Journal article by Guillemette Johnston; The Romanic Review, Vol. 92, 2001

Subjects:

Education--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Emile (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Linguistics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Metaphor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--Criticism, interpretation, etc., de Saussure, Ferdinand--Influence

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...acoustic phenomenon. If Saussure identifies sender, message...speech, Roman Jakobson, in "Linguistics and Poetics," describes operant...below. (5.) Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique generale...mine. (6.) Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics," Language in...
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In Memoriam, Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck, 1913-2003

Journal article by Mark Janse; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 43, 2004

Subjects:

Leiden University, Linguistic Society of America, Uhlenbeck, Eugenius Marius

Collections: Entire Library

...formal training in linguistics, he was introduced...of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Edward...sign-based theory of Saussure and its applications in Prague School linguistics. Linguistic signs...Leyden studies in Linguistics...Ferdinand de Saussure 26:179-86 = 1973...

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Magazine Articles on: saussure linguistics

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The End of Linguistics

Magazine article by Mark Halpern; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Language awareness--Social aspects, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Linguistic change--Analysis, Linguistics--Methods, Vocabulary--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...turn for assistance to the findings of what is now called linguistics, if we judge such information to be relevant to our own objectives...will of course have access to the OED and to the works of Saussure and Humboldt and Jakobson and Chomsky and all the rest, but...
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Vim and Rigor

Magazine article by W.J.T. Mitchell; Artforum International, Vol. 37, May 1999

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Goodman, Nelson--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Intellectuals--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...strategically away from it. In his bracketing of history and value, perhaps Goodman put himself on the road to being a kind of Saussure of aesthetics (a comparison I am pretty sure he would not appreciate). In any case, it was Goodman who, strangely enough, helped...
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Critical Reflections

Magazine article by Rosalind Kraus; Artforum International, Vol. 33, January 1995

Subjects:

Artists--Philosophy, Didi-Huberman, Georges--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...New York, 1994. 18. The epigraph Morris chose for "Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making," borrowed from Ferdinand de Saussure, could in a certain way be considered a heuristic injunction par excellence: "Between the two extremes--a minimum of organization...
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New Fowler's Modern English Usage

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, December 1996

Subjects:

English language--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...gifted amateur, not a trained linguist. He ignored much of the revolution in linguistics that scholars such as Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Otto Jespersen were creating, instead basing his opinions on the grammars...
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Christ and Critical Theory

Magazine article by Paul J. Griffiths; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2004

Subjects:

Catholic Church--Influence, Critical theory--Religious aspects, Eagleton, Terry--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Lyotard, Jean-Francois--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religion--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...They began in grand style, growing out of (and in part rejecting) the formalistic structuralism of Ferdinand de Saussure (in linguistics), Claude Levi-Strauss (in anthropology), and Roman Jakobson (in literary theory). To this they married the new...

Encyclopedia Articles on: saussure linguistics

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Saussure, Ferdinand De

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE...founders of modern linguistics , he established...which it signifies. Saussure distinguished synchronic linguistics (studying language...an individual). Saussures most influential...Course in General Linguistics (1916), a compilation...
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Linguistics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...diachronic). The father of modern structural linguistics was Ferdinand de Saussure , who believed in language as a systematic...importance. Bibliography See F. de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (tr. 1966); J. Lyons, Introduction...
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Structuralism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...This method found wide use from the early 20th cent. in a variety of fields, especially linguistics , particularly as formulated by Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson . Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss used structuralism to study...
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Semiotics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. Saussures key notion of the arbitrary nature of the sign means that...itself (see structuralism ). Semiotics is not limited to linguistics, however, since virtually anything (e.g., gesture, clothing...
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Derrida, Jacques

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Derrida contended that Western metaphysics (e.g., the work of Saussure , whose theories he rejected) had judged writing to be inferior...of arts and social sciences including such disciplines as linguistics, anthropology, and political science. Derridas writings include...

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