Language, Saussure, and Wittgenstein

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Language, Saussure, and Wittgenstein
Roy Harris, Roy Harris
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Language, Saussure, and Wittgenstein

how to play games with words

Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. This book points out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from different intellectual sources, this study breaks new ground. It also raises challenging questions about the radical break which the work of Saussure and Wittgenstein provoked with traditional assumptions about the role of language in human affairs. It is a book which will be of interest to linguists, philosophers, historians, social anthropologists and students of literature.

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
136

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Edition Notes

Published in
London, New York
Series
Routledge history of linguistic thought series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
401
Library of Congress
P106 .H3335 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 136 p. ;
Number of pages
136

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2240987M
ISBN 10
041500084X
LCCN
89112837
LibraryThing
1267306
Goodreads
4757998

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Work ID
OL506694W

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