Paul J. Thibault

Re-reading Saussure (eBook, PDF)

The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus our theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate from our individual and social practices of making meaning. In this challenging book, Thibault presents a different view of Saussure. Paying close attention to the original texts, including the Cours de Linguistic Generale he demonstrates that Saussure was centrally concerned with trying to formulate a theory of how meanings are made.Re-reading Saussure does more than simply engage with Saussure's theory in a new and up-to-date way, however. In addition to demonstrating the continuing viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples, it makes an important intervention in contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135093082
• Artikelnr.: 42828553

Autorenporträt

Paul J. Thibault

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Constructing a science of signs
Chapter 1: Defining the object of study
Chapter 2: Saussure's social-semiological metatheory
Part II: Langue as social-semiological system
Chapter 3: Saussure's three conceptions of the language system
Chapter 4: The time-dependent nature of langue
Part III: Langue and parole: re-articulating the links
Chapter 5: Parole and the individual
Chapter 6: The speech circuit
Part IV: Linguistic value
Chapter 7: Linguistic value and how language construes the world
Chapter 8: Linguistic and economic value
Part V: Sign and signification
Chapter 9: The linguistic sign
Chapter 10: The symbolic character of the sign
Part VI: Sign, discourse and social meaning-making
Chapter 11: Dimensions of contextualization
Chapter 12: Arbitrariness and motivation in the sign
Chapter 13: Making and motivating signs in discourse
Postscript