Re-Reading Saussure: The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life
Routledge (1997)
| Abstract | Through a detailed re-reading of Saussure'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. In addition to demonstrating the continuing viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples, Re-reading Saussure makes an important intervention in contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Semiotics Social aspects Language and languages Philosophy Linguistics | |||||||||
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| Call number | P85.S18.T48 1997 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0415104106 9780415104104 | |||||||||
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