- by Paul J Thibault
- 1996
- All 8 lectures online
- Course Overview
- Speech and Writing: Two Distinct Systems of Signs
- The Problematic of Écriture
- The Phoneme: Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Dimensions of Contextualization
- The Sounds of Language
- Speech Sounds, The Speech Circuit, and Embodied Meaning-Making Activity: An Ecosocial Perspective
- The Brain in Social Semiosis
- Mental Activity, Memory, and Context
- Embodiment, Perception, Consciousness, Personhood
Saussure And Beyond: Renewing Semiotic Foundations
Course Description Contents Course Description Course Outline Preliminary Reading: Lectures In this course I argue that a renovated Saussurean theory of the dynamics of signs in social life is possible. I re-examine many of the key concepts in Saussure’s theory and call into question the standard readings of Saussure. In so doing, I attempt to [...]
