Course in General Linguistics - Couverture souple

Saussure, Ferdinand De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231157274 ISBN 13 : 9780231157278

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, thus enabling the development of French feminism, gender studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism. Based on Saussure's lectures, Course in General Linguistics (1916) traces the rise and fall of the historical linguistics in which Saussure was trained, the synchronic or structural linguistics with which he replaced it, and the new look of diachronic linguistics that followed this change. Most important, Saussure presents the principles of a new linguistic science that includes the invention of semiology, or the theory of the "signifier," the "signified," and the "sign" that they combine to produce.

This is the first critical edition of Course in General Linguistics to appear in English and restores Wade Baskin's original translation of 1959, in which the terms "signifier" and "signified" are introduced into English in this precise way. Baskin renders Saussure clearly and accessibly, allowing readers to experience his shift of the theory of reference from mimesis to performance and his expansion of poetics to include all media, including the life sciences and environmentalism. An introduction situates Saussure within the history of ideas and describes the history of scholarship that made Course in General Linguistics legendary. New endnotes enlarge Saussure's contexts to include literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Haun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016) A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2017) .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231157274
• ISBN 13: 9780231157278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Meisel Perry, Saussy Haun
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible