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.