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The Seventh Function of Language
Author | : Laurent Binet |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780374715083 |
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From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered? In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva—as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of Roland Barthes for Dummies). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.” A brilliantly erudite comedy that recalls Flaubert’s Parrot and The Name of the Rose—with more than a dash of TheDa Vinci Code—The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.
The 7th Function of Language
Author | : Laurent Binet |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781473524637 |
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'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.
The Seventh Function of Language
Author | : Laurent Binet |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780374261566 |
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The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
Society and Language Use
Author | : Jürgen Jaspers,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010-09-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027289162 |
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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.
Civilisations
Author | : Laurent Binet |
Publsiher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-04-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1529112818 |
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Language Conflict and Language Rights
Author | : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2018-08-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107022096 |
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An overview of language rights issues and language conflicts with detailed examination of many cases past and present around the world.
Directors Duties in Canada
Author | : Barry J. Reiter |
Publsiher | : CCH Canadian Limited |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1553676939 |
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The Physiology of the Novel
Author | : Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Nicholas Dames,Nicholas Dames |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199208968 |
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How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novelcritics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, andsoothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.