Language and the Subject

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-420-0015-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 317 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 23 mm

Reihe: Critical Studies

This volume contains nineteen essays — eighteen here presented for the first time — exploring the question of subjectivity as seen from a linguistic perspective. Part I concerns the relationship between the linguistic subject, particularly the grammatical first person, and the subject in more general sense of ‘person'. Topics covered include deixis, verbal marking and temporalisation, and performatives. Part II concerns the relationship of subjectivity to the experience of reading, and as such considers the semiotics of both literary and non-literary texts, inter-modal representation, authorship and intertextuality. The essays in the volume are principally influenced by the thinking of Saussure, Jakobson, Guillaume, Benveniste, Wittgenstein, Barthes and Deleuze, and the book will appeal to scholars with an interest in theoretical linguistics, semiotics, discourse, analysis and philosophy of language. Karl Simms provides comprehensive introductions to each of the parts, making the book accessible to inform general readers with an interest in cultural and communication studies.

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Simms, Karl

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: QUESTIONING THE SUBJECT OF LINGUISTICS. Karl SIMMS: Introduction. Céline SURPRENANT: La chose de tout le monde: Langue and masse parlante in Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale. Maya MACHAVARIANI: Semiotic synthesis in natural language: Dialectical way from eidos through speech act to lexical and grammatical patterning. Madonna SAKHOKIA and Maya MACHAVARIANI: Gustave Guillaume's psychomechanics, marking theory, and the semiotic subject of natural language. D.S. MARRIOTT: Aspects of ousia and transitive verb form in Fenollosa's The Chinese Written Character and Pound's Cantos. Karl SIMMS: Indexicality and the social semiotic. Keith GREEN: The shifting origo and the deictic centre of orientation. Jean-Jacques LECERCLE: Do we need a subject in linguistics? Helen FRASER: The subject in linguistics. Wil COLEMAN: Against constructionism (essentialism). PART II: READING, TEXTUALITY, INTERTEXTUALITY. Karl SIMMS: Introduction. Malcolm PITTOCK: Animals as people — people as animals: The beast story with special reference to Henryson's The Two Mice and The Preaching of the Swallow. Thomas WEST GREGORY: From ekphrasis to concrete poetry: The final synthesis of image and word. Elham AL-BASSAM: Semiotic approach to Arabic short poems. Mark HUTCHINGS: The semiotics of economics in committed drama. John C. KELLY: Disinterring the dead father: Literary efforts to map the postmodern psyche. Sean CUBITT: Read only memories. Rainer EMIG: In parenthesis: The subject at war. Martin GOUGH: The death of the author and the life of the subject. Sean BURKE: The ethics of signature. Michael HOEY: The discourse's disappearing (and reappearing) subject: An exploration of the extent of intertextual interference in the production of texts. Biblio-graphy. Name Index. Subject Index.