80,000+ Books in-stock in NZ 📚

Winter Reads Sale! Enjoy up to 20% off 1,700 books! 🚀

Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

By V. N. Vološinov
0.0 (0 reviews)
4.21 goodreads logo

Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.

Check link for latest rating. ( 326 ratings, 24 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Summary
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by V. N. Vološinov, originally published in 1929, breaks down traditional boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics to create a new field of semiotics or textual theory. This work offers a critical exploration of language as a social interaction, challenging abstract individualistic views and laying theoretical foundations that resonate with modern sociolinguistics and semiotics.
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$7599
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

Ideal for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and students interested in semiotics, sociolinguistics, and Marxist approaches to language.

Book Hero thinking about your next read

Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.

This book is a masterpiece of theoretical thought. It anticipates the actual achievements of much of what we now call sociolinguistics. The 'dialectic of the sign' and of the verbal sign in particular as it is presented in the book acquires great suggestive value in the light of today's debates about semiotics. -- Roman Jakobson In this one book a reader can discover the ideas of Bakhtin and his circle about language, not as a conceptual metaphor, but as that aspect of human life which is in fact the subject matter of a cumulative science. Its critical account of the state of linguistic thought in the first decades of the century is all that a sociological or Marxist critique can and should be: not a stereotyped application of received categories, but an attempt to think through from the foundation the consequence of taking social interaction; not the abstract individual speaker, as starting point...Brilliant. -- Dell Hymes

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

V. N. Vološinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.

Vološinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to construct a new kind of field: semiotics or textual theory. Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik have provided a new preface to discuss Vološinov in relation to the great resurgence of interest in all the writing of the circle of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Fredric Jameson describes it as one of the best general introductions to linguistics. Roman Jakobson praises the book as a masterpiece anticipating sociolinguistic achievements, highlighting its dialectic of the verbal sign. Dell Hymes commends its critical and foundational approach to language theory from a Marxist and sociological perspective, calling it brilliant and as valuable today as ever.

Book Hero reading reviews

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674550988

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 1986

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Ladislav Matejka
  • Translated by I. R. Titunik
  • Translated by Ladislav Matejka
  • Translated by I. R. Titunik
  • Translated by Ladislav Matejka
  • Translated by I. R. Titunik

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 295g

Pages: 224

Collections

Education & Reference Non-Fiction V. N. Vološinov

More from Education & Reference

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.

The Latest at Book Hero

View all