Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

Voloshinov, V. N

ISBN 10: 0129301507 / ISBN 13: 9780129301509

Published by Seminar Press, 1973

About this Item

Ownership signature of American literary critic J. Hillis Miller in pencil on the first free end page. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Binding is study. Covers show some wear around the corners and at the head and base of the spine. Dust jacket is edge worn, with small closed tears and tiny chips missing from both the top and bottom edges. The spine of the dust jacket is a little faded. 205pp.

Seller Inventory # 065297

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
• Publisher: Seminar Press
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0129301507
• ISBN 13: 9780129301509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science

About this title

Synopsis

Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.

Volosinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to construct a new kind of field: semiotics or textual theory. Matejka and Titunik have provided a new preface to discuss Volosinov in relation to the great resurgence of interest in all the writing of the circle of Mikhail Bakhtin.

From the Back Cover

'This book is a masterpiece of theoretical thought. It anticipates the actual achievements of much of what we now call sociolinguistics. The 'dialectic of the sign' and of the verbal sign in particular as it presented in the book acquires great suggestive value in the light of today's debates about semiotics.'--Roman Jakobson