Language and the Subject.

• Superior document: Critical Studies
• VerfasserIn: Simms, Karl,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : BRILL,, 1997.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Questioning the Subject of Linguistics -- Introduction -- "La chose de tout le monde": Langue and masse parlante in Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale -- Semiotic Synthesis in Natural Language: Dialectical Way through Speech Act to Lexical and Grammatical Patterning -- Gustave Guillaume's Psychomechanics, Marking Theory, and the Semiotic Subject of Natural Language -- Aspects of Ousia and Transitive Verb Form in Fenollosa's The Chinese Written Character and Pound's Cantos -- Indexicality and the Social Semiotic -- The Shifting Origo and the Deictic Centre of Orientation -- Do We Need a Subject in Linguistics? -- The Subject in Linguistics -- Against Constructionism (and Essentialism) -- Part II: Reading, Textuality, Intertextuality -- Introduction -- Animals as People - People as Animals: The Beast Story with Special Reference to Henryson's The Two Mice and The Preaching of the Swallow -- From Ekphrasis to Concrete Poetry: The Final Synthesis of Image and Word -- Semiotic Approach to Arabic Short Poems -- The Semiotics of Economics in Committed Drama -- Disinterring the "Dead Father": Literary Efforts to Map the Postmodern Psyche -- Read Only Memories -- In Parenthesis: The Subject at War -- The Death of the Author and the Life of the Subject -- The Ethics of Signature -- The Discourse's Disappearing (and Reappearing) Subject: An Exploration of the Extent of Intertextual Interference in the Production of Texts -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.