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Beyond pure reason : Ferdinand de Saussure's philosophy of language and its early romantic antecedents /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gasparov, B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Colección:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Saussure, "Saussurism," and "Saussurology"
  • 1. The person
  • 2. The writings
  • 3. Antinomies of the sign
  • 4. Fragmentation and progressivity : Saussure's semiotics in the mirror of early romantic epistemology
  • 5. Diachrony and history
  • 6. The anagram
  • 7. Linguistics of speech : an unrealizable promise?
  • Conclusion : freedom and mystery : the peripathetic nature of language.