A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

It will be understood why this philosophy must be a Marxist philosophy. Not only because its definition, as an instrument of cla ...

defeats of the workers’ movement on a world scale have in no small measure been due to the fact that the class enemy has always ...

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Chapter Two Critique of Linguistics ‘Linguistics has done a lot of harm’ Abécédaireis a series of cassettes containing eight hou ...

equilibrium, of which one can construct the science. The remainder, the variations, are assigned not to langue, but to parole. W ...

the influence of Guattari, he had read and used a number of linguists, from Hjelmslev to Benveniste and Gustave Guillaume. But t ...

anything to intervene in the scientific study of languethat is not derived from langueitself (Milner’s first, third and fourth a ...

aware that there is no good linguistics not only without a methodology of science, but without a philosophy of language. That hi ...

to a minimum of experience at the requisite age, do not speak at all. Accordingly, experience plays a necessary but limited role ...

alike. Otherwise you couldn’t learn any of them. The basic structure of them, including the meaning of words and the nature of s ...

changed since its appearance at the dawn of humanity. Any historical phenomenon, any linguistic change is superficial, and irrel ...

theory of language thus constructed enables us to explain, even if abstractly and indirectly, the grammatical phenomena of natur ...

tabula rasaor bearer of a programme that merely needs to be unfolded, social interaction plays only a secondary role (certainly ...

(1) He painted the house brown. And he concludes his analysis as follows: The fact that a brown house has a brown exterior, not ...

of metaphor accounts for this phenomenon in a more simple and convincing fashion: it links perceptual schemata and metaphors of ...

However, this is not exactly true. For Chomsky naturally constructs his I- language on the basis of phenomena that interest me. ...

it without ever making a mistake, even if they would be at a loss to formulate it. This state of affairs inspires the following ...

phenomena is more complex than Chomsky allows, this universal grammar is threatened with assuming a Byzantine complexity and hen ...

But this takes us back to the monad and its complexity: the human brain is effectively too complex a watch to do without a watch ...

sense; ‘they looked at each other’ a reciprocal sense). Out of context, sentence (14) has a reflexive sense, while (15) has a re ...