The Partially Examined Life
This is an excerpt from a prior episode of The Partially Examined Life podcast, discussing Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss’s “The Structural Study of Myth” (1955), and Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1966). You can find the entire unabridged Semiotics and Structuralism podcast, along with dozens of others discussing philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, at the Partially Examined Life website: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com
About PEL: The podcasters were all graduate students in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin back in the Clinton years. They all left the program at some point before getting their doctorates and have consequently since had time to get outside that whole weird world of academia and reflect on it and the various philosophical topics with a different, and probably much more lazy, perspective. .
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At first I thought he said… "Human beings and 'trains'…" And I freaked. In a good way. But he said, trees–so on and so forth.
there's "une langue", which means "a language"; there's "la langue", which means "languages in general", the human faculty of speaking, etc; finally there's "langage", which is the meta of all that, of which "langue" is merely the realization. "langue" is pronounced a lot like "long"; "langage" is pronounced like "long gash". source: I speak french.
Good try kids…
Please stop.
The example Saussure uses for the difference between symbol and signifier is the balance being used for justice, since any given object has a function not determined by the language, and another object couldn't simply replace the balance
Grammar Identity and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive (Phuc Tran at TedX:Dirigo)
yeah….ummm…bullshit
My thoughts exactly.