36.2058, Books: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure: Joseph (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 03-Jul-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [Lucy.Trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure: Joseph (ed.) (2025)


Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure
Series Title: Bloomsbury Handbooks
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-handbook-of-saussure-9781350379787/

Editor(s): John E. Joseph

Hardback 9781350379787
Price: £130.00

Abstract:

For linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure is the defining figure of its
modern period. For semiotics too he is the founding figure within
Europe, alongside Peirce in America. Yet Saussure's influence reaches
far beyond linguistics and semiotics, through the structuralism which
his teaching inspired in the decades following his death, and even the
post-structuralism which followed it. With chapters written by leading
scholars from across the world, this detailed and comprehensive volume
charts the significance of Saussure's work across the wide range of
fields in which it had an impact, providing a thorough understanding,
and the definitive guide to, his ideas and legacy.
Divided into four parts, the book first explores Saussure's life and
career, including his published and unpublished work. Part Two is
devoted to the Course in General Linguistics, which is dissected
across five chapters to offer a highly detailed account of the most
important book within modern linguistics. Part Three traces the Course
and its leading ideas across the ensuing decades, as Saussure became
the acknowledged founding figure not just of modern linguistics and
semiotics, but of a structuralism which was not limited by academic
field. Lastly, Part Four highlights key themes and topics for close
attention, offering an even greater depth of insight into the life,
work and reception of Saussure.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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