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Auteur(s) : Hirschkop, Ken
Titre(s) : Linguistic turns, 1890-1950 [Texte imprimé] : writing on language as social theory / Ken Hirschkop
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x-323 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [285]-314. Notes bibliogr. Index
Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century
Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin,
Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel,
Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest 'language'
with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent
was itself in question. By examining linguistic turns in concert rather than in isolation,
the volume changes the way we see them-no longer simply as moves in individual disciplines,
but as elements of a larger constellation, held together by common concerns and anxieties.
In a series of detailed readings, the volume reveals how each0linguistic turn invested
'language as such' with powers that could redeem not just individual disciplines but
Europe itself. It shows how, in the hands of different writers, language becomes a
model of social and political order, a tool guaranteeing analytical precision, a vehicle
of dynamic change, a storehouse of mythical collective energy, a template for civil
society, and an image of justice itself. By detailing the force linguistic turns attribute
to language, and the way in which they contrast 'language as such' with actual language,
the volume dissects the investments made in words and sentences and the visions behind
them. The constellation of linguistic turns is explored as an intellectual event in
its own right and as the pursuit of social theory by other means
Sujet(s) : Sociolinguistique -- Philosophie -- Histoire
Langues -- Aspect politique -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
401 (23e éd.) = Langues - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 019874577X. - ISBN 9780198745778
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45628115v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45628115
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