A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

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A Marxist Philosophy of Language ...

Historical Materialism Book Series Editorial Board Paul Blackledge, Leeds – Sebastian Budgen, Paris – Stathis Kouvelakis, Paris ...

A Marxist Philosophy of Language by Jean-Jacques Lecercle Translated by Gregory Elliott BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2006 ...

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LC Control Number: 2006047542 ISSN 1 ...

In memory of my father, active Communist ...

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Contents Chapter One ‘Chirac est un ver’ Chapter Two Critique of Linguistics Chapter Three Critique of the Philosophy of Langua ...

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Chapter One ‘Chirac est un ver’ A not so bright Sun In the run-up to the war of imperialist aggression against Iraq, theSun– a n ...

earthworms are a different matter: in French, they are neither obviously harmful, nor even altogether repugnant. People do say l ...

accompanying the headline is written in correct French. We must therefore look further or deeper for an explanation – to a philo ...

things are said in both languages) completely ignores what a natural language is: the fact that, named thus in order to distingu ...

and knowledge, without depth or past. This emerges even more clearly when we consider a second aspect of British national educat ...

of empire, whose practices are ever more explicitly imperialist. To those who doubt the relevance of the old Marxist concept of ...

of this extinction, which is not only that of an idiom, but of a culture, a specific way of conceiving the world: a voice has fa ...

and so on; and, finally, at the periphery, we find the speakers of English as a living language learnt at school (English as a f ...

have been through school sometimes write a more ‘correct’ English – i.e. one closer to standard English – than the mass of nativ ...

Readers can see that what interests me in the study of the English language is a much broader range of phenomena than the existe ...

the Hegelian ‘essential section’ criticised by Althusser, ignores, in favour of the system whose construction it makes possible, ...