Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

by Volosinov, V. N.

• ISBN13: 9780674550988
• ISBN10: 0674550986
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-07-21
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others. Volosinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to construct a new kind of field: semiotics or textual theory. Matejka and Titunik have provided a new preface to discuss Volosinov in relation to the great resurgence of interest in all the writing of the circle of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Table of Contents

Translators' Preface, 1986 Author's Introduction, 1929 Guide to Translation Translators' Introduction

The Philosophy of Language and its Significance for Marxism

The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language

Concerning the Relation of the Basis and Superstructures

Philosophy of Language and Objective Psychology

Toward a Marxist Philosophy of Language

Two Trends of Thought in Philosophy of Language

Language, Speech. And Utterance

Verbal Interaction

Theme and Meaning in Language

Toward a History of Forms of Utterance in Language Constructors (Study in the Application of the Sociological Method to Problems of Syntax)

Theory of Utterance and the Problems of Syntax

Exposition of the Problems of Reported Speech

Indirect Discourse, Direct Discourse, and Their Modification

Quasi-Direct Discourse in French, German, and Russian Appendix

On the First Russian Prolegomena to Semiotics Ladislav Matejka Appendix

The Formal Method and the Sociological Method

Index

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