Joan Casser

Structures of Language

Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation
Herausgeber: Mishra, Deepak K

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Produktbeschreibung

This annotated commentary delineating Michel Pêcheux's materialist discourse theory anticipates the formation of a real social science to supersede the metaphysical meanings 'always-already-there' instituted by empirical ideology. Structures of Language presents Pêcheux's consequential work in respect to Ferdinand de Saussure's epistemological breakthrough that founded the science of linguistics: the theoretical separation of sound from meaning. Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, John Searle"s philosophy of language, B.F. Skinner's indwelling agents, J.L. Austin's speech situations, Jacques Lacan's symbolic order, and the influential theories of other linguistic researchers, are cited to explain imaginary semantic systems. The broader implications for structural metaphysics in language use are tacitly conveyed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9798888900147
• Artikelnr.: 67408761

Autorenporträt

Joan Casser is a New Zealand sociologist. His Ph.D. was completed at the University of Waikato, Hamilton (2020). Ideology, linguistics, epistemology and the history of social formations are his principal research interests. Dr. Casser is currently preparing a succedent text for publication to further corporeal logic in the social sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Michel Pêcheux (1938–1983)
Semantic scientificity – linguistic phenomena – domain of linguistics –
sentence formation – epistemological obstacles – everyday language –
ideological phenomena – realization of the real – self-evident meaning –
social science – non-subjective theory of subjectivity – semantic
self-evidence – syntactic recognition – philosophical hermeneutics –
scientific practice – co-reference
2 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913)
Theoretical ideologies – Saussure’s rupture – speech sounds – linguistic
co-ordination – social psychology – language and speech – ideological
mis/recognition – institutional discourse – discourse analysis – contextual
cues – base/superstructure – value and meaning – acceptability – imaginary
associations – Althusserian principles – scientific history – analogy
3 Noam Chomsky (1928–)
Problem of meaning – linguistic idealism – generative grammar – competence
and performance – sentential transformations – universal grammar –
Port-Royal logic – propaganda model of meaning – linguistic value –
pre-Saussurian ideology – state discourse – Saussurian double structure –
transcoding – formatives – state apparatus – dogma of meaning
4 John Searle (1932–)
Philosophy of language – spontaneous ideology – reading codes – contextual
rules – ideology of context – illocutionary acts – context-utterance
relation – expressibility – brute/institutional facts – intentionality –
social reality – performative utterances – the Background – speaker
position – structural elements – social commitment – tied information.
5 B.F. Skinner (1904–1990)
 S-O-R model – illusion of spontaneous subjectivity – indwelling agents –
Munchausen effect – introspection – verbal behavior – operant conditioning
– discursive contingencies – colloquial communication – verbal faculty –
social control – forms of reinforcement – inner man – technology of
behavior – autonomous subjection – subject of speech
6 J.L. Austin (1911–1960)
 Subjective self-evidence – predictable speech – speech situations –
conventional mis/recognition – verbal contexts – performative assumptions –
meaningless speech – ideologies of agency – responsible subject – plea for
excuses – imaginary associations – ideology of ordinary language –
institutionalized speech acts – rituals of performativity – performative
success – ideological speech activity
7 Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)
Mental automatism – repetition automatism – letter of meaning – automatic
ideation – discursive automatism – subject of enunciation – site of speech
– ideological automaticity – symbolic order – derealization – transference
– structures of identification – psychogenic interpretations – the echo –
ideo-verbal subjection – symbolic agencies
8 Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
Pre-Saussurian regression – mythical systems – discursive discrepancies –
mythemes – meaning and myth – muthos – novel mythology – accepted stories –
politics and myth – noble lie – rhetoric – mythological beliefs – personal
agency – mythological freedom – rhetoric of freedom – myths of subjectivity
– rhetorical practice – meaningful narratives
9 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
Philosophy as ideology – meaningless nonsense – propositional logic –
Saussurian principles – useless signs – ideological practice – everyday
language – non-subjective theory of language – mechanical protocols –
misunderstood meaning – unconscious subjection – meaning as use – socially
accepted signs – ideological problems – language games – linguistic
behavior
10 Zellig Harris (1909–1992)
  Non-subjective theory of language – meaning as frequency – institutional
ideologies – ideology of meaning – distribution – recurring sequences –
normative social conditions – architecture of meaning – social sub-systems
– distributed meaning effects – forms of language – ideological basis of
ordinary language – language and situation
11 Roman Jakobson (1909–1992)
  Meaningful ideology – sound and meaning – phonemes – semantic effects –
code recognition – double structure – Saussure’s break – shifters – subject
positions – imaginary representation – discourse structure – subject as
shifter – preconstructed social relations – self-subjection – ordinary
language – literal subjection – literary discourses
12 Jacques Derrida (1930–2004)
  Semantic deconstruction – Saussurian break – illusory forms of control –
metaphysics of meaning – ideology and belief – ideological superstructure –
phonocentric discourse – subjective interiority – textual transparency –
meaning and soliloquy – symbolic linearity – psychographism – repression –
ideological structure of subjectivity – logic of the supplement
13 Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975)
  Author function – individualistic subjectivism – normative inculcation –
transverse discourse – semantic and metonymic dominance – identificatory
obviousness – official/unofficial ideology – illusion of subjectivity –
social psychology – hierarchies of discourse – addressivity and
answerability – relative autonomy of meaning – social science as ideology
14 Jürgen Habermas (1929–)
  Universal pragmatics – observation and understanding – critical theory of
subjection – background consensus – normative structures – subject
positions – spirit of capitalism – socially situated speech – legitimate
rule – ideological subjection – non-coercive coercion – liberal state –
state apparatus – legitimation problem – psychoanalysis and self-reflection
– unconscious ideology – consensus and meaning
15 Émile Benveniste (1902–1976)
 Self-generating subjectivity – materialist theory of discourse – symbolic
interaction – linguistic immediacy – ideological conditions of enunciation
– individual agency – psychological subjectivity – structures of verbal
interaction – non-subjective theory of language – epistemological rupture –
social domination – state authority – symbolic control – institutional
materiality – subjectivity and speech
16 Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
 Discourse analysis – non-subjective theory of subjectivity – discursive
formations – language and ideology – linguistic base – disciplines –
archaeology of knowledge – modern soul – objective conditions of discursive
practice – institutional materiality – accepted forms of subjection –
ideology of freedom – writing systems – epistemic panopticon – disciplinary
norms – Munchausen effect
Conclusion
References
Index