LINGUIST List 22.846 Sat Feb 19 2011 Books: General Ling/Ling Theories/Philosophy of Lang: Daylight Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Anna Glazier , What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure?: Daylight Message 1: What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure?: Daylight Date: 15-Feb-2011 From: Anna Glazier <Anna.Glaziereup.ed.ac.uk> Subject: What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure?: Daylight E-mail this message to a friend Title: What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure? Published: 2011 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press                 http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748641970 Author: Russell Daylight Hardback: ISBN: 9780748641970 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 65 Abstract: "Daylight's fine book on Derrida and Saussure is the first critique to seek to understand Derrida's philosophical project while testing his reading of Saussure and exploring how the argument of the Course may, despite Derrida's influential critique, contain resources for resisting his project and thinking differently about language and meaning." Jonathan Culler, Cornell University Between 1907 and 1911, Ferdinand de Saussure gave three series of lectures on the topic of general linguistics. After his death, these lecture notes were gathered together by his students and published as the Course in General Linguistics. And in the past one hundred years, there has been no more influential and divisive reading of Saussure than that of Jacques Derrida. This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today. Despite the importance of Derrida's critique of Saussure for cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory, no comprehensive analysis has before been written. The magnitude of the task undertaken here makes this book an invaluable resource for those wishing to interrogate the encounter beyond appearances or received wisdom. In this process of a close reading, the following themes become sites of debate between Derrida and Saussure: *the originality of Saussure within the history of Western metaphysics *the relationship between speech and writing *the relationship between difference and difference *the intervention of time in structuralism *linguistic relativism and the role of the language user. This long-overdue commentary also poses new questions to structuralism and post-structuralism, and opens up exciting new terrain in linguistic and political thought. Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics                             Linguistic Theories                             Philosophy of Language Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=53106 New! 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