Course in General Linguistics

Informationen zum Autor Haun Saussy, born in 1960, is University Professor at the University of Chicago, where his courses range among classical Chinese literature, comparative poetics, translation, and the history of knowledge. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1993), Great Walls of Discourse (2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm (2016), and Translation as Citation (2018) for which he received the American Comparative Literature Association's Wellek Prize in 2018. Klappentext Translation of Cours de linguistique generale. Zusammenfassung This is the first critical edition of Course in General Linguistics 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.

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• Authors: Ferdinand De Saussure, Ferdinand de Saussure
• Assisted by: Perry Meisel (Editor), Meisel Perry (Editor), Jeremy Rosen (Editor), Haun Saussy (Editor), Saussy Haun (Editor), Wade Baskin (Translation), Baskin Wade (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9780231157261
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15726-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Linguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literary theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism