Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 231)

Casser, Joan

ISBN 10: 9004520775 / ISBN 13: 9789004520776

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 231)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004520775
• ISBN 13: 9789004520776
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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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 of 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 other influential linguistic researchers, are cited to explain imaginary semantic systems. The broader implications for structural metaphysics in language use are tacitly conveyed.

About the Author

Joan Casser is a New Zealand-born sociologist. His Ph.D. was completed at the University of Waikato, Hamilton (2020). Ideology, linguistics, epistemology and the history of social formations are his principal research interests. Dr. Casser is currently preparing a succedent text for publication with Brill to further corporeal logic in the social sciences.