The Dialogic Species: A Linguistic Contribution to the Social Sciences (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) - Hardcover

Hagege, Claude

 
9780231067607: The Dialogic Species: A Linguistic Contribution to the Social Sciences (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231067607 ISBN 13: 9780231067607
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Hagege, Claude; Tr. By Sharon L. Shelly, Dialogic Species, The: A Linguistic Contribution To The Social Sc

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Reviews

Surveying linguistics from a somewhat unusual perspective, Hagege, a professor of linguistics in Paris, castigates "structural linguistics," in which he includes generative grammar, for a too-narrow focus on phonology, morphology, and syntax. He argues that linguists should consider not only morphosyntactic but also semantico-referential aspects (the real world about which we talk) and the psychosocial relationship of speaker and hearer. "We speak to transmit meaning," he insists. The translation is excellent. Many of the examples are in French, but English translations are given for most of them. There are also examples from a wide variety of other languages. Not an easy book for the nonlinguist, but recommended for academic collections.
- Catherine V. von Schon, SUNY at Stony Brook
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Publisher
Columbia Univ Pr
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231067607
ISBN 13 
9780231067607
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288