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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
'This is an absorbing and brilliant book, original in its form and far-reaching in its theoretical ambition. Writing in counter-point, Riley and Lecercle propose another philosophy of language, one that displaces the familiar but increasingly unproductive dichotomy between language as inner speech (subjectivity) and language as external system (langue). In erudite, witty, and cunning prose, the authors elegantly put flesh on the bones of the claim that language is a social praxis, specifically, a praxis of affect and force. The radical challenge their arguments present to the stale theoretical consensus on what language is will resonate through linguistics, the philosophy of language and cultural studies.' - Professor Ellen Rooney, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, USA
About the authors
JEAN-JACQUES LECERCLE is Professor of English in the University of Paris at Nanterre, France. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy of language and literary theory, and is the author of The Violence of Language, Philosophy of Nonsense, Interpretations of Pragmatics and Deleuze and Language.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Force of Language
Authors: Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Denise Riley
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503793
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4248-7Published: 20 October 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52139-5Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50379-3Published: 20 October 2004
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 186
Topics: English, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Language