About the Author:
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford.
Review:
In the same way that most people have access to a canonised version of a religious text, so it is with Cours de Linguistique Generale; however, the interpreters, to call them that, each impose their own perspective. Harris describes this process wonderfully - his chronological presentation allows the reader to follow the evolution of images receuved from de Saussure 'Harris demonstrates with his customary academic rigour and stylistic panache that you can't talk or write about art, science or history without also havig a theory of language! Harris's wickedly subversive account of comparative philology is an intellectual tour de force. This readable and witty book is nothing less than a landmark for anyone interested in the history of ideas, the study of language and the problem of knowledge formation in interdisciplinary research. -- Language and Literature 'Harris demonstrates with his customary academic rigour and stylistic panache that you can't talk or write about art, science or history without also havig a theory of language! Harris's wickedly subversive account of comparative philology is an intellectual tour de force.' - The use of English, vol 58, no 1, Autumn 2006 In the same way that most people have access to a canonised version of a religious text, so it is with Cours de Linguistique Generale; however, the interpreters, to call them that, each impose their own perspective. Harris describes this process wonderfully - his chronological presentation allows the reader to follow the evolution of images receuved from de Saussure 'Harris demonstrates with his customary academic rigour and stylistic panache that you can't talk or write about art, science or history without also havig a theory of language! Harris's wickedly subversive account of comparative philology is an intellectual tour de force. This readable and witty book is nothing less than a landmark for anyone interested in the history of ideas, the study of language and the problem of knowledge formation in interdisciplinary research. 'Harris demonstrates with his customary academic rigour and stylistic panache that you can't talk or write about art, science or history without also havig a theory of language! Harris's wickedly subversive account of comparative philology is an intellectual tour de force.' - The use of English, vol 58, no 1, Autumn 2006
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