TY - BOOK
T1 - Models of the Human in Twentieth-Century Linguistic Theories : System, Order, Creativity
AU - ZHOU, Feifei
N1 - This book grows out of my PhD thesis which was completed in 2014 at School of English, University of Hong Kong.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human. It presents a close reading of major linguistic theories in the twentieth century with a focus on three main themes: linguistic system and the individual speaker; social order; and linguistic creativity. The examination of these three fundamental themes concerning language and human nature, on the one hand, provides a fine-textured exposition on the implicit and explicit models of human nature endorsed by major theorists; on the other, it reveals the methodological dilemmas faced by linguistics. In light of the fact that the importance of considering posthumanist ideas is increasingly being underscored today, both within and outside linguistics, this focus on the human makes the book highly topical.
AB - This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human. It presents a close reading of major linguistic theories in the twentieth century with a focus on three main themes: linguistic system and the individual speaker; social order; and linguistic creativity. The examination of these three fundamental themes concerning language and human nature, on the one hand, provides a fine-textured exposition on the implicit and explicit models of human nature endorsed by major theorists; on the other, it reveals the methodological dilemmas faced by linguistics. In light of the fact that the importance of considering posthumanist ideas is increasingly being underscored today, both within and outside linguistics, this focus on the human makes the book highly topical.
KW - History of linguistics
KW - conversational order
KW - human communication
KW - language and human nature
KW - linguistic creativity
KW - linguistic memory
KW - linguistic system
KW - linguistic theories
KW - machine-mediated communication
KW - post-humanism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101820624&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-1255-1
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-1255-1
M3 - Book (Author)
SN - 9789811512544
BT - Models of the Human in Twentieth-Century Linguistic Theories : System, Order, Creativity
PB - Springer Singapore
CY - Singapore
ER -