Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) - Softcover

Casser, Joan

 
9798888900147: Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
Softcover
ISBN 13: 9798888900147
Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2023

Synopsis

This annotated commentary delineating Michel Pêcheux's materialist discourse theory anticipates the formation of a real social science to supersede the metaphysical meanings 'always-already-there' instituted by empirical ideology. Structures of Language presents Pêcheux's consequential work in respect to Ferdinand de Saussure's epistemological breakthrough that founded the science of linguistics: the theoretical separation of sound from meaning.

Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, John Searle"s philosophy of language, B.F. Skinner's indwelling agents, J.L. Austin's speech situations, Jacques Lacan's symbolic order, and the influential theories of other linguistic researchers, are cited to explain imaginary semantic systems. The broader implications for structural metaphysics in language use are tacitly conveyed.

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About the Authors

Joan Casser studies inter-individual behavior to cognize how stimulus-response activity is enculturated. He received a doctorate for research on interpellation from the University of Waikato, New Zealand (2020). He is the author of Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation (Brill, 2022).



Deepak K. Mishra is Professor at Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His work focuses on the political economy of agrarian change, rural development, and labour migration in India.

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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 13 
9798888900147
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
302
Editor
Mishra Deepak K.