Harris 1990

Reference:

Under construction

Review

Excerpts

'The basic contention of the present paper is that the fundamental error in contemporary linguistics is still the fundamental error of Saussure's original thesis. It involves a crude process of abstraction by which certain phenomena are segregated from the continuum of human communication, and these segregated phenomena are then, rather capriciously, set up for academic purposes as constituting the linguistic part of communication' (22).

Domains: Under construction |

Key Terms: | communication | contention | linguistics | thesis |



'Modern linguistics proceeded to demonstrate its indebtedness to Saussure by remaining profoundly segregationalist both in its methodology and in its attitude to neighboring disciplines' (22).

Domains: Under construction |

Key Terms: | linguistics |



'For purposes of an integrational analysis, however, the concept of meaning may be dispensed with and replaced by that of communicational function. The crucial difference is that the communicational function of a sign is always contextually determined and derives from the network of integrational relations which obtain in a particular situation' (49).

Domains: Under construction |

Key Terms: | analysis | concept | difference | function | meaning | network | sign | situation |



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