September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
987 pages
39h 11m
German
1.“Culture” as part of “language”
2.Peirce: the incursion of the present participle in the process of semiosis
3.Saussure: from “signifier” to “signifying” (signifiant)
To speak of “concepts of culture and language” it is helpful to begin by recalling that both “culture” and “language” themselves are “concepts”, which as such require something like “language” in order to be articulated meaningfully. It is clear that language, however defined, presupposes a cultural milieu in order to develop. But the notion that language either constitutes merely a part of “culture”, or that it can be clearly ...
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