My "To-Read" stack is about 26 books high right now. I had previously ordered myself not to buy any more books until I catch up, but the primary thesis of this text was just irresistible. If the argument of this text holds up, it will have profound implications.

What if Derrida Was Wrong About Saussure? by Russell Daylight

https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/19084?login=false

#books #bookstodon #academicchatter #Derrida #Saussure #poststructuralism #bookwyrm #theory #philosophy #linguistics

@ceperez

I'll always be talking about Peircean semiotics here.

Up until 15 or 20 years ago folks observed the distinction between #Peirce's #Semiotics or #Semeiotics and #Saussure's #Semiology, but then some European schools decided the latter term was not sexy enough and they switched. More confusion than fusion ensued. Today we have as much pop semiotics as pop psychology, which is a good when it draws people into the fold but less good when it leaves the field spindled and mutilated.

I used to be a structural linguist, but now I’m not Saussure.

#linguistics #Saussure