Publication details
La linguistique textuelle et le programme de philologie englobante
| Title in English | Text linguistics and the programme of encompassing philology |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Verbum |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | structuralism; functional structuralism; text linguistics; encompassing philology; binarist conception of linguistic sign |
| Description | The programme of encompassing philology is a consciously structuralist one, based on the polarity between language as an abstract sign system and concrete texts, be they written or spoken, as sign formations. The meaning of a sign is described only by differences to other signs that are systeme-allowed. Linguistic signs of different size are recognised and taken into consideration, even a sentence is a sign. The sentence, central explanatory unit of the abstract system of language, is defined in full independence from then utterance, central explanatory unit of concrete texts. |