Re-reading Saussure : the dynamics of signs in social life /
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| Author / Creator: | Thibault, Paul J. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. |
| Description: | xxii, 360 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2583982 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Defining the object of study
- 2. Saussure's social-semiological metatheory
- 3. Saussure's three conceptions of the language system
- 4. The time-dependent nature of langue: the dialectic of synchrony and diachrony
- 5. Parole and the individual
- 6. The speech circuit: cross-coupling the individual with the system
- 7. Linguistic value and how language construes the world
- 8. Linguistic and economic value: a homology
- 9. The linguistic sign
- 10. The symbolic character of the sign
- 11. Dimensions of contextualization: the mechanism of langue
- 12. Arbitrariness and motivation in the sign
- 13. Making and motivating signs in discourse.