Écriture and language reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J P Delaporte (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 26-31 |
| Publication date | 1986-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718608529801 |
| OpenAlex | W2119856666 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Often misread as a document of semiotics, Barthes’ S/Z rejects every concern with a generalisation of semantics in favour of a novel theory of syntax. This latter is construed as a rewriting of a text in order to foreground syntactical rather than semantical referential devices. The result is an implicit contrast between a manifest and a latent level of syntactic organisation, showing realism to be the corrigible result of a semantic/referential organisation designed to deny its overdetermination by a syntactic order. Barthes’ attempt to elucidate latent syntactic order is compared to identical procedures in the writers associated with the critique of metaphysics in the name of formal logic. Every attempt to deploy reading to the end of foregrounding latent syntactical devices is argued to be inescapably imbricated in an idealisation of the object language. The syntax thus elaborated is won at the expense of effacing the material coordinates of the signifier which it organises. An alternative mode of investigating latent syntactical properties which is neither semiological nor reconstructionistic is required. Such a procedure may be found outlined in the work of Quine and of Foucault
Epistemology · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Metalanguage · Metaphysics · Overdetermination · Philosophy of language · Quine · Realism · Semiotics · Sociology · Syntax · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 1990 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |