Talking Heads – Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
Autor Benjamin Leeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 dec 1997
Talking Heads synthesises the views and works of a breathtaking range of the most influential modern theorists of the humanities and social sciences, including Austin, Searle, Derrida, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Frege, Kripke, Donnellan, Putnam, Saussure, and Whorf. After illuminating these many rays of thought, Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds within the context of the public sphere the questions of subjectivity and language raised by this variety of theorists. In his examination of how subjectivity relates not just to grammatical patterns but also to the specific social institutions in which these patterns develop and are sustained, Lee discusses topics such as the concept of public opinion and the emergence of Western nation-states.
With its remarkably comprehensive synthesis of this multitude of relevant theories of subjectivity, Talking Heads will be a welcome addition to investigations unfolding across a wide spectrum of the human and social sciences.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822320159
ISBN-10: 0822320150
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822320150
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Recenzii
Benjamin Lee situates himself at the convergence of multiple disciplines; philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory. He offers a nuanced exploration of the central questions shared by these disciplines during the modern era. . . . Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds, within the context of the public sphere, the questions of subjectivity and language raised by these theorists. Social SemioticsThis book has much to offer linguists. It provides a good discussion of contemporary work on indexicality in linguistics and the philosophy of language, and of the relationship of this work to debates in the first half of the twentieth century. It also offers a detailed discussion of the discovery of indexicality by Peirce and its application to linguistic analysis in the work of Jakobson and Silverstein. Asif Agha, Anthropological LinguisticsLees scholarship is top-notch, and the remarkable ease with which he moves across disciplinary boundaries enables him to address old and vexing questions in an illuminating way. Daniel F. Suslak, American EthnologistThe particular virtue of Talking Heads is its treatment of several Western forms of discourse as objects of ethnographic inquiry. Deconstructionists, psychological anthropologists, political anthropologists, and all those concerned with language and subjectivity will gain much from this masterful book. James M. Wilce, American Anthropology
*Benjamin Lee situates himself at the convergence of multiple disciplines; philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory. He offers a nuanced exploration of the central questions shared by these disciplines during the modern era... Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds, within the context of the public sphere, the questions of subjectivity and language raised by these theorists." Social Semiotics "This book has much to offer linguists. It provides a good discussion of contemporary work on indexicality in linguistics and the philosophy of language, and of the relationship of this work to debates in the first half of the twentieth century. It also offers a detailed discussion of the discovery of indexicality by Peirce and its application to linguistic analysis in the work of Jakobson and Silverstein." Asif Agha, Anthropological Linguistics "Lee's scholarship is top-notch, and the remarkable ease with which he moves across disciplinary boundaries enables him to address old and vexing questions in an illuminating way." Daniel F. Suslak, American Ethnologist "The particular virtue of Talking Heads is its treatment of several Western forms of discourse as objects of ethnographic inquiry. Deconstructionists, psychological anthropologists, political anthropologists, and all those concerned with language and subjectivity will gain much from this masterful book." James M. Wilce, American Anthropology
*Benjamin Lee situates himself at the convergence of multiple disciplines; philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory. He offers a nuanced exploration of the central questions shared by these disciplines during the modern era... Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds, within the context of the public sphere, the questions of subjectivity and language raised by these theorists." Social Semiotics "This book has much to offer linguists. It provides a good discussion of contemporary work on indexicality in linguistics and the philosophy of language, and of the relationship of this work to debates in the first half of the twentieth century. It also offers a detailed discussion of the discovery of indexicality by Peirce and its application to linguistic analysis in the work of Jakobson and Silverstein." Asif Agha, Anthropological Linguistics "Lee's scholarship is top-notch, and the remarkable ease with which he moves across disciplinary boundaries enables him to address old and vexing questions in an illuminating way." Daniel F. Suslak, American Ethnologist "The particular virtue of Talking Heads is its treatment of several Western forms of discourse as objects of ethnographic inquiry. Deconstructionists, psychological anthropologists, political anthropologists, and all those concerned with language and subjectivity will gain much from this masterful book." James M. Wilce, American Anthropology
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"Lee's extraordinary mastery of so many different domains enables him to cross back and forth over the usual borders and boundaries, and to demonstrate to us that each domain of specialized knowledge has important things to say about the issues he focuses on, things which cannot be ignored if we hope to achieve a full understanding of them."--Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University
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Anthropologist Benjamin Lee explores various questions regarding the relationship between language, subjectivity, community, and the external world. TALKING HEADS synthesizes the views and works of a breathtaking range of the most influential modern theorists of the humanities and social sciences.