{"title":"Ferdinand de Saussure","description":"\u003cp\u003eFerdinand de Saussure's works explore the foundational ideas of linguistics and semiotics, offering profound insights into the structure and function of language. His \u003cem\u003eCourse in General Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e remains essential reading for those interested in the theoretical underpinnings of language as a system of signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect meticulous analyses that have shaped modern understanding of language and communication. These texts provide a rich intellectual framework for students and scholars in education and reference fields seeking to deepen their grasp of linguistic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"course-in-general-linguistics-by-ferdinand-de-saussure-9781472512055","title":"Course in General Linguistics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFerdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the \u003ci\u003eCourse in General Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e, ushered in the structuralist mode which marked a key turning point in modern thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes, psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguists such as Noam Chomsky all found an important influence for their work in the pages of Saussure's text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 100 years after Saussure's death, this new edition of Roy Harris's authoritative translation is now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a substantial new introduction exploring Saussure's contemporary influence and importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383603118316,"sku":"9781472512055","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7258073482712.jpg?v=1773378515"},{"product_id":"course-in-general-linguistics-by-ferdinand-de-saussure-9780231157278","title":"Course in General Linguistics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, thus enabling the development of French feminism, gender studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on Saussure's lectures, \u003cem\u003eCourse in General Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e (1916) traces the rise and fall of the historical linguistics in which Saussure was trained, the synchronic or structural linguistics with which he replaced it, and the new look of diachronic linguistics that followed this change. Most important, Saussure presents the principles of a new linguistic science that includes the invention of semiology, or the theory of the \"signifier,\" the \"signified,\" and the \"sign\" that they combine to produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first critical edition of \u003cem\u003eCourse in General Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e to appear in English and restores Wade Baskin's original translation of 1959, in which the terms \"signifier\" and \"signified\" are introduced into English in this precise way. Baskin renders Saussure clearly and accessibly, allowing readers to experience his shift of the theory of reference from mimesis to performance and his expansion of poetics to include all media, including the life sciences and environmentalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn introduction situates Saussure within the history of ideas and describes the history of scholarship that made \u003cem\u003eCourse in General Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e legendary. New endnotes enlarge Saussure's contexts to include literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995368669420,"sku":"9780231157278","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231157278-course-in-general-linguistics.jpg?v=1784895229"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/ferdinand-de-saussure.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}