Beyond Pure Reason : : Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents / / Boris Gasparov.
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinet...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Saussure, "Saussurism," and "Saussurology"
- PART 1. Voluble Silence: Saussure and His Legacy
- PART 2. Postulates About Language and Their Demise
- PART 3. Language in Discourse
- Conclusion: Freedom and Mystery-the Peripathetic Nature of Language
- Works Cited
- Index