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This book explores various attempts throughout the history of linguistics to explain language in terms of the body, and how these attempts contribute to, and challenge, the more mainstream, mind-based accounts of language. Covering linguistics, philosophy, psychology and medicine, as well as literary and religious dimensions, it explores the question: where is language?

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In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John E. Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences.

Language and Politics brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language is political, revealing how politics permeates language (and vice-versa), the link between language and nation, the social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness, the significance of language taboos, the role of rhetoric, propaganda, and interpretation, and the power of hegemony and choices. John E. Joseph's previous book, Language and Identity has earned...

Language and Politics brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language is political, revealing how politics permeates language (and vice-versa), the link between language and nation, the social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness, the significance of language taboos, the role of rhetoric, propaganda, and interpretation, and the power of hegemony and choices. John E. Joseph's previous book, Language and Identity has earned...

Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language counters these claims and assumptions by demonstrating not only their...

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical manner.The book summarizes the contribution of ...

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical manner.The book summarizes the contribution of ...