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<p>The fashionable disavowal of structural semiology as logocentric is easily countered by a review of the important innovations of second-generation semiology, spearheaded by Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan. The scope of Saussurean semiology is hampered only by its reliance upon alphabetic language and presence grounded in the voice; the assertion that semiology is a part of linguistics, rather than the reverse, does not reject the existence of nonlinguistic meaning; wordplay and textual experimentation are no mere stylistic ornamentation, but are on the contrary the key strategy of second-generation semiology for exposing the limitations of language. All three of these writers rely upon the glossematics of Louis Hjelmslev for the articulation of the concrete, non-logocentric object of general linguistics — his stratification of the Saussurean sign provides the centerpiece for the synthetic theoretical model introduced here.</p>
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The fashionable disavowal of structural semiology as logocentric is easily countered by a review of the important innovations of second-generation semiology, spearheaded by Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan. The scope of Saussurean semiology is hampered only by its reliance upon alphabetic language and presence grounded in the voice; the assertion that semiology is a part of linguistics, rather than the reverse, does not reject the existence of nonlinguistic meaning; wordplay and textual experimentation are no mere stylistic ornamentation, but are on the contrary the key strategy of second-generation semiology for exposing the limitations of language. All three of these writers rely upon the glossematics of Louis Hjelmslev for the articulation of the concrete, non-logocentric object of general linguistics — his stratification of the Saussurean sign provides the centerpiece for the synthetic theoretical model introduced here.

Second-Generation Semiology and Detotalization

Linguistic Frontiers

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The fashionable disavowal of structural semiology as logocentric is easily countered by a review of the important innovations of second-generation semiology,...

Second-Generation Semiology and Detotalization

Pubblicato online: 14 ott 2021

Pagine: 44 - 53

Ricevuto: 01 apr 2021

Accettato: 01 mag 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0010

Parole chiave
logocentrism, black pyramid schema, Peirce-Hjelmslev hybrid

© 2021 Tyler James Bennett, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Second-Generation Semiology and Detotalization

Pubblicato online: 14 ott 2021

Pagine: 44 - 53

Ricevuto: 01 apr 2021

Accettato: 01 mag 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0010

Parole chiavelogocentrism, black pyramid schema, Peirce-Hjelmslev hybrid

© 2021 Tyler James Bennett, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
logocentrism, black pyramid schema, Peirce-Hjelmslev hybrid