Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Karl Simms -- Acknowledgements / Karl Simms -- Introduction / Karl Simms -- “La chose de tout le monde”: Langue and masse parlante in Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale / Céline Surprenant -- Semiotic Synthesis in Natural Language: Dialectical Way from Eidos through Speech Act to Lexical and Grammatical Patterning / Maya Machavariani -- Gustave Guillaume’s Psychomechanics, Marking Theory, and the Semiotic Subject of Natural Language / Madonna Sakhokia and Maya Machavariani -- Aspects of Ousia and Transitive Verb Form in Fenollosa’s The Chinese Written Character and Pound’s Cantos / David Marriott -- Indexicality and the Social Semiotic / Karl Simms -- The Shifting Origo and the Deictic Centre of Orientation / Keith Green -- Do We Need a Subject in Linguistics? / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- The Subject in Linguistics / Helen Fraser -- Against Constructionism (and Essentialism) / Wil Coleman -- Introduction / Karl Simms -- Animals as People – People as Animals: The Beast Story with Special Reference to Henryson’s The Two Mice and The Preaching of the Swallow / Malcolm Pittock -- From Ekphrasis to Concrete Poetry: The Final Synthesis of Image and Word / Thomas West Gregory -- Semiotic Approach to Arabic Short Poems / Elham Al-Bassam -- The Semiotics of Economics in Committed Drama / Mark Hutchings -- Disinterring the “Dead Father”: Literary Efforts To Map the Postmodern Psyche / John C. Kelly -- Read Only Memories / Sean Cubitt -- In Parenthesis: The Subject at War / Rainer Emig -- The Death of the Author and the Life of the Subject / Martin Gough -- The Ethics of Signature / Sean Burke -- The Discourse’s Disappearing (and Reappearing) Subject: An Exploration of the Extent of Intertextual Interference in the Production of Texts / Michael Hoey -- Bibliography / Editor: Karl Simms -- Name Index / Editor: Karl Simms -- Subject Index / Editor: Karl Simms.

This volume contains nineteen essays — eighteen here presented for the first time — exploring the question of subjectivity as seen from a linguistic perspective. Part I concerns the relationship between the linguistic subject, particularly the grammatical first person, and the subject in more general sense of ‘person'. Topics covered include deixis, verbal marking and temporalisation, and performatives. Part II concerns the relationship of subjectivity to the experience of reading, and as such considers the semiotics of both literary and non-literary texts, inter-modal representation, authorship and intertextuality. The essays in the volume are principally influenced by the thinking of Saussure, Jakobson, Guillaume, Benveniste, Wittgenstein, Barthes and Deleuze, and the book will appeal to scholars with an interest in theoretical linguistics, semiotics, discourse, analysis and philosophy of language. Karl Simms provides comprehensive introductions to each of the parts, making the book accessible to inform general readers with an interest in cultural and communication studies.

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