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The Material Word (Routledge Revivals)
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ABSTRACT
First published in 1980, this reissue is a study of the sociology of language, which aims to bridge the gap between textbook and monograph by alternating chapters of explication and analysis. A chapter outlining a particular theory and suggesting general criticisms is followed by a chapter offering an original application of that theory. The aim of the authors is to treat text and talk as the site of specific practices which sustain or subvert particular relations between appearance and reality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: Introduction: The language of mastery
part |2 pages
Part II: The limits of language
part |2 pages
Part III: Language and thought
chapter 6|17 pages
Heidegger: from letters to being, or from being to letters? Heidegger’s interpreters; Idle talk; Idealism and materialism; Talk and understanding; Appendix
part |2 pages
Part IV: Language and society
chapter 7|21 pages
The essentialism of ethnomethodology Life versus thought in Schutz; Multiple realities; The solitary scientist; Ethnomethodological sociology; Sacks and Sacksism; Structured speech; Sexism
chapter 8|20 pages
Codes in conversation: the speech of Bernstein and Labov Universalism and particularism; Interview talk as restricted speech; Interpreting restricted speech; Interrupting restricted speech; Telling the code; Interview talk as elaborated speech; Interpreting elaborated speech; Interrupting elaborated speech
part |2 pages
Part V: The practice of ordinary language
chapter 9|18 pages
What Austin does with words Austin’s interpreters; Austin as philosopher; Austin as investigator; Austin at reflection—the rule of Austin’s self
chapter 10|14 pages
Locke’s text of property The intelligibility of the text; Sophistry and mastery; Interpreting Locke; The text ‘Of Property’
part |2 pages
Part VI: Language, sign and text
chapter 11|20 pages
The significance of Barthes ‘The demon of analogy’; Saussure’s semiology; Barthes’s ‘signifiance’; Historical specifics—systems of connotation; The productivity of the text; An ‘infinite thematics’?
chapter 12|21 pages
The blood of dreams: Robbe-Grillet’s project A fiction ruptured by its narration; The collapse of the narrative voice; Writing/reading; Black and white—and red; The play of the text; Interrupting the code
part |2 pages
Part VII Conclusion: The mastery of language
