A Marxist philosophy of language.9789004147515 A Marxist philosophy
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are terms which cover work in philosophy which is strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory or which is written by Marxists. of language. Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. Trans. by Gregory Elliott. Brill Academic Publishers 2006 236 pages $147.00 Hardcover Historical materialism historical materialism: see dialectical materialism. book series; v.12 P107 Lecercle (English, U. of Nanterre, France) seeks to construct a Marxist philosophy of language. He first critiques the linguistics of Noam Chomsky Noun 1. Noam Chomsky - United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) A. Noam Chomsky, Chomsky as being intentionalist and methodologically individualist and Jurgen Habermas's philosophy of language as being structured on liberal conceptions. He also reviews the fragmentary and sketchy tradition of Marxist thinking about language, eventually proposing a Marxist conceptualization con·cep·tu·al·ize v. con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing, con·cep·tu·al·iz·es v.tr. To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: of language as a cultural construct and making the case that English is the language of imperialism. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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