29.3261, Books: Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius: Seuren

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Subject: 29.3261, Books: Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius: Seuren

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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:49:14
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius: Seuren

 


Title: Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius 
Subtitle: A Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/38947 


Author: Pieter A.M. Seuren

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004378155 Pages: 279 Price: Europe EURO 105
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004378148 Pages: 279 Price: Europe EURO 116


Abstract:

In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly
overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert
Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great
innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing
many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and
works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural,
intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to
the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of
structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic
theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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