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Structures of Language Joan Casser

Structures of Language By Joan Casser

Structures of Language by Joan Casser


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Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation by Joan Casser

This annotated commentary delineating Michel Pecheux's materialist discourse theory anticipates the formation of a real social science to supersede the metaphysical meanings 'always-already-there' instituted by empirical ideology. Structures of Language presents Pecheux's consequential work in respect to Ferdinand de Saussure's epistemological breakthrough that founded the science of linguistics: the theoretical separation of sound from meaning.

Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, John Searle"s philosophy of language, B.F. Skinner's indwelling agents, J.L. Austin's speech situations, Jacques Lacan's symbolic order, and the influential theories of other linguistic researchers, are cited to explain imaginary semantic systems. The broader implications for structural metaphysics in language use are tacitly conveyed.

About Joan Casser

Joan Casser is a New Zealand sociologist. His Ph.D. was completed at the University of Waikato, Hamilton (2020). Ideology, linguistics, epistemology and the history of social formations are his principal research interests. Dr. Casser is currently preparing a succedent text for publication to further corporeal logic in the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1Michel Pecheux (19381983)
Semantic scientificity linguistic phenomena domain of linguistics sentence formation epistemological obstacles everyday language ideological phenomena realization of the real self-evident meaning social science non-subjective theory of subjectivity semantic self-evidence syntactic recognition philosophical hermeneutics scientific practice co-reference

2Ferdinand de Saussure (18571913)
Theoretical ideologies Saussures rupture speech sounds linguistic co-ordination social psychology language and speech ideological mis/recognition institutional discourse discourse analysis contextual cues base/superstructure value and meaning acceptability imaginary associations Althusserian principles scientific history analogy

3Noam Chomsky (1928)
Problem of meaning linguistic idealism generative grammar competence and performance sentential transformations universal grammar Port-Royal logic propaganda model of meaning linguistic value pre-Saussurian ideology state discourse Saussurian double structure transcoding formatives state apparatus dogma of meaning

4John Searle (1932)
Philosophy of language spontaneous ideology reading codes contextual rules ideology of context illocutionary acts context-utterance relation expressibility brute/institutional facts intentionality social reality performative utterances the Background speaker position structural elements social commitment tied information.

5B.F. Skinner (19041990)
S-O-R model illusion of spontaneous subjectivity indwelling agents Munchausen effect introspection verbal behavior operant conditioning discursive contingencies colloquial communication verbal faculty social control forms of reinforcement inner man technology of behavior autonomous subjection subject of speech

6J.L. Austin (19111960)
Subjective self-evidence predictable speech speech situations conventional mis/recognition verbal contexts performative assumptions meaningless speech ideologies of agency responsible subject plea for excuses imaginary associations ideology of ordinary language institutionalized speech acts rituals of performativity performative success ideological speech activity

7Jacques Lacan (19011981)
Mental automatism repetition automatism letter of meaning automatic ideation discursive automatism subject of enunciation site of speech ideological automaticity symbolic order derealization transference structures of identification psychogenic interpretations the echo ideo-verbal subjection symbolic agencies

8Roland Barthes (19151980)
Pre-Saussurian regression mythical systems discursive discrepancies mythemes meaning and myth muthos novel mythology accepted stories politics and myth noble lie rhetoric mythological beliefs personal agency mythological freedom rhetoric of freedom myths of subjectivity rhetorical practice meaningful narratives

9Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
Philosophy as ideology meaningless nonsense propositional logic Saussurian principles useless signs ideological practice everyday language non-subjective theory of language mechanical protocols misunderstood meaning unconscious subjection meaning as use socially accepted signs ideological problems language games linguistic behavior

10Zellig Harris (19091992)
Non-subjective theory of language meaning as frequency institutional ideologies ideology of meaning distribution recurring sequences normative social conditions architecture of meaning social sub-systems distributed meaning effects forms of language ideological basis of ordinary language language and situation

11Roman Jakobson (19091992)
Meaningful ideology sound and meaning phonemes semantic effects code recognition double structure Saussures break shifters subject positions imaginary representation discourse structure subject as shifter preconstructed social relations self-subjection ordinary language literal subjection literary discourses

12Jacques Derrida (19302004)
Semantic deconstruction Saussurian break illusory forms of control metaphysics of meaning ideology and belief ideological superstructure phonocentric discourse subjective interiority textual transparency meaning and soliloquy symbolic linearity psychographism repression ideological structure of subjectivity logic of the supplement

13Mikhail Bakhtin (18951975)
Author function individualistic subjectivism normative inculcation transverse discourse semantic and metonymic dominance identificatory obviousness official/unofficial ideology illusion of subjectivity social psychology hierarchies of discourse addressivity and answerability relative autonomy of meaning social science as ideology

14Jurgen Habermas (1929)
Universal pragmatics observation and understanding critical theory of subjection background consensus normative structures subject positions spirit of capitalism socially situated speech legitimate rule ideological subjection non-coercive coercion liberal state state apparatus legitimation problem psychoanalysis and self-reflection unconscious ideology consensus and meaning

15Emile Benveniste (19021976)
Self-generating subjectivity materialist theory of discourse symbolic interaction linguistic immediacy ideological conditions of enunciation individual agency psychological subjectivity structures of verbal interaction non-subjective theory of language epistemological rupture social domination state authority symbolic control institutional materiality subjectivity and speech

16Michel Foucault (19261984)
Discourse analysis non-subjective theory of subjectivity discursive formations language and ideology linguistic base disciplines archaeology of knowledge modern soul objective conditions of discursive practice institutional materiality accepted forms of subjection ideology of freedom writing systems epistemic panopticon disciplinary norms Munchausen effect

Conclusion

References

Index

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Structures of Language: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation by Joan Casser
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