Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology

Beata Stawarska is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is an author of Saussure’s Philosophy of Language (2015), Between You and I (2009), and numerous essays in contemporary Continental and feminist philosophy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Recent developments in Saussurean linguistics.- Chapter 3. Making the Course: book-writing and reviewing.- Chapter 4. La langue, the proper object of linguistics.- Chapter 5. The linguistic sign and the language system.- Chapter 6. A sociohistorical view of cultural signification.- Chapter 7. Derrida and Saussure: entrainment and contamination.- Chapter 8. The principle of duality: synchrony and diachrony.- Chapter 9. Beyond the doctrine: linguistic innovation.- Chapter 10.  Language and languages.- Chapter 11. The structuralist legacy: a modern human science. Chapter 12.  Post-structuralism: the end of the book and the beginning of writing.- Chapter 13.   The phenomenological legacy: speaking subjects.