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Language: The Unknown

An Initiation Into Linguistics

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvJulia Kristeva

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In this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics. For Kristeva, the object of linguistic investigation is not “What is language?” but rather “How can language be thought?” In a series of carefully documented analyses, she examines the links between philosophical speculation and linguistic practice. She traces postmodern linguistic theory back to its roots, using sources that range from Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mayan and Phoenician writings, and the Hebrew Bible to the Prague School of Structuralism. Thorough and far-reaching in its analysis, Language: The Unknown provides fascinating insights into the history of graphic cultures, philosophy, anthropology, and semiotics.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-14
Mått140 x 216 x 30 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor408
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231216791

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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

PrefacePart I. Introduction to LinguisticsIntroduction1. Language, La Langue, Speech, and Discourse2. The Linguistic Sign3. The Materiality of LanguagePart II. Language in HistoryIntroduction4. Anthropology and Linguistics: The Knowledge of Language in So-Called Primitive Societies5. The Egyptians: Their Writing6. Mesopotamian Civilization: The Sumerians and Akkadians7. China: Writing as Science8. Indian Linguistics9. The Phoenician Alphabet10. The Hebrews: The Bible and the Cabala11. Logical Greece12. Rome: The Transmission of Greek Grammar13. Arab Grammar14. Medieval Speculations15. Humanists and Grammarians of the Renaissance16. The Grammar of Port-Royal17. The Encyclopédie: La Langue and Nature18. Language as History19. Structural LinguisticsPart III. Language and Languages20. Psychoanalysis and Language21. The Practice of Language22. SemioticsConclusionNotesWorks Principally Relied OnIndex