CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Ferdinand de Saussure Inside and Outside Linguistics
| Dates: | 24 February 2016 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students |
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This seminar is part of CIDRAL's Theory Intensives series.
Professor Nigel Vincent (Linguistics, University of Manchester) will lead a Theory Intensive seminar on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is commonly described as one of the founders of structuralism based on the ideas contained in the book Cours de linguistique structurale which bears his name though it was in fact written by his students and published posthumously in 1916. In this class we will look at three things:
- the way those ideas have been taken up and developed or challenged within linguistics
- the wider discussion and development of these ideas within the humanities and social science disciplines
- the relation between the Cours and Saussure’s other writings, many of which remained unpublished in his lifetime
Readings are available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k2ezeh1z8q3spgf/AADavVrvw_40J1iV6LoZZa0Xa?dl=0
(From Ferdinand de Saussure, 'Course in General Linguistics', trans. Roy Harris (London: Bloomsbury, 2013 or in French, bibliographic detail available in the scan):
Professor Vincent also suggests the following as secondary reading:
Beata Stawarska, 'Saussure's Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology' (Oxford University Press, 2015)
John E. Joseph, 'Saussure' (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Carol Sanders (ed.), 'Cambridge Companion to Saussure' (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Jonathan Culler, 'Saussure' (1976)
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