Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)
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Aesthetics
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Cheshire Cat
creative language use
Dead Metaphor
Double Syntax
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False Synthesis
Galilean Science
Genitive Link
Gu Age
Hardy's Style
Hardy’s Style
Lalangue
language constraints
Linguistic Fantasy
linguistic remainder
linguistic theory
Live Metaphor
metaphor analysis
MIT Press
Pelican Freud Library
Philosophy
Portmanteau Words
PUF
Riddley Walker
Roderick Spode
Saussure's Langue
Saussure’s Langue
Semantic Series
social forces shaping language
sociolinguistics
Subsidiary Thesis
Syntactic Frames
Unholy Mixture
Unterwegs Zur Sprache
Vice Versa
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138200340
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’ from ‘irrelevant’ phenomena — excluding the latter. This leaves a ‘remainder’ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used — the essence of poetry and metaphor. Although this remainder can never be completely formalised, it must be fully recognised by any true account of language and thus this book attempts the first ‘theory of the remainder’. As such, whether it is language or the speaker who speaks is dealt with, leading to an analysis of how all speakers are ‘violently’ constrained in their use of language by social and psychological realties.
