Ferdinand de Saussure

The idea of discourse in poststructuralism: Derrida, Lacan and Foucault

by Lotar Rasiński

Rasiński L., The idea of discourse in poststructuralism: Derrida, Lacan and Foucault, „Contemporary–Learning–Society. A Quarterly of Social and Educational Ideas” („Człowiek–Teraźniejszość–Edukacja” wyd. specjalne w j. ang.) 2011, s. 7-22.

Grappling with Saussurean Linguistics in Ulysses

by Jonathan Fleck

Thinking Where I Am (K)not: Resistance, Language and the Unconscious in Freud and Lacan

by Ian McCausland

Masters Thesis, 2011

In this work I discuss the relevance of the psychoanalytic concepts of resistance and transference for an... more In this work I discuss the relevance of the psychoanalytic concepts of resistance and transference for an understanding of language from a psychoanalytic point of view, in particular how it is that human beings relate to language and whether or not we can conceive of a relation of reference between word and thing from the point of view of Jacques Lacan’s notion of the subject of the unconscious. This investigation takes us through the notion of reference and how it is possible (or not) for language to even refer to anything outside of itself from a psychoanalytic point of view. How does psychoanalysis force us to confront our prejudices about language? How might we understand the status of knowledge differently (and productively) after Lacan, taking into account the concept of the unconscious as “structured like a language”? We are concerned throughout with understanding the unconscious in material terms. 

I Saw the Sign and it [Could Have] Opened up my Eyes: A Semiotic Analysis of 200 Cigarettes Reveals How not to Shoot an Eventual Cult Favourite

by Parnick Musick

Said by one of the great professors at Guilford College to be the "most professional and in-depth look at the Semiotics of the Cult Film in College History." I would venture to say that Semiotics are not too popular with kids my age, but there you go. This is not my historical work, but ain't nobody can say that this is not some serious critical thought. Even you historians, read! Oh, and see the Movie!

This essay is a hybrid semiotic and linguistic contextualist analysis of "200 Cigarettes," a failed become... more This essay is a hybrid semiotic and linguistic contextualist analysis of "200 Cigarettes," a failed become to becomes a cult film after it was released in 1996. This film contained the correct ingredients to become a cult classic. But it did not do so. After establishing a set of a set of internal and external and related them as a matrix of signifying activities characteristic of Cult films in general. It operates its textual analysis by placing ultimate significance on the audience’s role as interpret ant of the film in the same way the readers interpret texts through the semiotic model of the Pierian Triangle. “200’s” audience was not persuaded by the sings they encountered, they were overwhelmed. They were bombarded by modality cues for referentiality was either external (relating to the 1990s) or internal to sings that ultimately diverted audience attention to the numerous empty signifiers within the film like the 200 some odd smoke breaks. But sadly, key moments of poignancy and interpretive significance for the viewing subjects were lost because of this paradigmatic overdrive. The cultural anxieties which invade this film, which its audience would see as moments of release had they not been distracted, do so at moments far removed from the crucial pragmatic sign systems to which they refer and thus the meanings and audience responses which this film could have achieved never materialized.

Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia Entries

by Tim Morton

“Bakhtin,” “Bataille,” “Benjamin,” “Deconstruction,” “Saussure,” “Foucault,” “Jakobson,” “Kristeva,” “Postmodernism,” in Benet's Readers' Encyclopedia, 4th edn. (Harper Collins, 1996), 73, 83, 95, 259, 915, 360, 518, 566–7, 823.

Short entries on nine topics. Short entries on nine topics.

Internal Reconstruction vs. External Comparison: The Case of the Indo-Uralic Laryngeals

by Adam Hyllested

K jednomu aspektu de Saussurovy a Jakobsonovy teorie znaku

by Vít Gvoždiak

Bohemica Olomucensia 3, 2010

Saussure et l'origine du langage. Un interdit à dépasser par la philosophie linguistique.

by Thomas Robert

published in 'Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio', 2010

Nerlich, B. (1999). Identity, Similarity and Continuity: Saussure and Wittgenstein on the constitution of linguistic units. In: The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences, ed. by John E. Joseph, Hans-Josef Niederehe, & Sheila Embleton. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 151-169.

by Brigitte Nerlich

Nerlich, B. (1998). Saussure and Wittgenstein: The arbitrariness and autonomy of grammar, In: Et multum et multa: Festschrift für Peter Wunderli zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Edeltraud Werner, R. Liver, Y. Stork, & M. Nicklaus. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 143-157.

by Brigitte Nerlich

“Wert, linguistisch II.”

by Hans Adler

Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie. Eds. Joachim Ritter, Karlfried Gründer, Gottfried Gabriel. Vol. 12, 2004) col. 583-586.

Uma breve análise das teorias linguísticas

by Alex Campos

Co-authored with Ana Clara G. A. de Meira e Arlete R. Nepomuceno.

Os estudos da linguagem, sobretudo em sua fase estruturalista e gerativista,
apresentaram a língua, entendida... more Os estudos da linguagem, sobretudo em sua fase estruturalista e gerativista,
apresentaram a língua, entendida como sistema. Propomo-nos a fazer um estudo sucinto
sobre o estruturalismo, o gerativismo e o funcionalismo, no qual a estrutura não existe pura
e simplesmente pela estrutura. Evidenciamos os estudos de Saussure, Chomsky bem como
os modelos teóricos de Halliday, Dik e Thompson os quais enfatizam a existência de
diferentes tipos de Funcionalismo. Concluímos que a teoria funcionalista percebe a língua
como um fenômeno social, cuja estrutura se adapta a pressões provenientes das diversas
situações comunicativas em que é utilizada.

“How an Empiricist Founds a New Science: An Epistemological Inquiry in Ferdinand de Saussure’s Linguistic Theory”

by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

in Arrivé Michel (ed.), Du côté de chez Saussure, A l'occasion de ses anniversaires (1857: naissance, 1907: premier Cours de linguistique générale), Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2008: 23-38

Structure, Sense and Territory

by Michael Austin

Published in Speculations Vol. II.

This paper attempts to show the importance of 'communication' for contemporary continental metaphysics. In opposition... more This paper attempts to show the importance of 'communication' for contemporary continental metaphysics. In opposition to the metaphysical descendants of structuralism (notably Badiou and Žižek), the author presents a "semiotic" metaphysical tradition. Through an examination of the work of C.S. Peirce and Michel Serres, the author proposes a new direction for contemporary metaphysicians which takes seriously the concepts of communication and structure.

La langue, "jardin clos, source scellée". Saussure et le Cours de Linguistique Générale, cent ans après.

by christophe rico

Acta Philosophica, 2005, vol. 14/1, p. 35-58

Simbolicità e scrittura. CS Peirce e F. de Saussure, logiche e limiti

by Silvia Redente

Separating Speech in Saussure and Sibbes: the Differentiating Function of Language

by David Parry

The Glass, 20 (2008), 27-36.

A Note on M. Barbieri's "Scientific Biosemiotics"

by Marc Champagne

Published in The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2 (2009), pp. 155-161.

A densely-packed critique of some current trends in semiotics.

[In an exceptional move, the journal has... more A densely-packed critique of some current trends in semiotics.

[In an exceptional move, the journal has included responses to my piece by major figures in the field.]