Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950: Writing on Language as Social Theory

Cover\nLinguistic Turns, 1890–1950: Writing on Language as Social Theory\nCopyright\nDedication\nPreface and Acknowledgements\nContents\nNote on Translations and References\n1: Introduction: Linguistic Turns as Social Theory\n	LANGUAGE AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY\n	LANGUAGE AND THE PEOPLE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY\n	‘LANGUAGE IN GENERAL’ IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY\n	THE SHAPE OF THE BOOK: THREE CLAIMS\nPART I: ORDER\n	2: ‘Grammar, for example, can only be studied in the crowd’: Reason, Analogy, and the Nature of Social Consent\n		ANALOGY: A STICKING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS\n		ANALOGY AND SOCIAL ORDER\n		ANALOGY AND THE COLLECTIVE WILL: WHETHER SPEAKERS THINK\n	3: The Ship of Logic on the High Seas of Discourse\n		HUNTING THE SNARK: THE PROPOSITION WITHIN THE SENTENCE\n		WITTGENSTEIN TURNS THE PROBLEM ON ITS HEAD\n		CLARITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY\n		A CULTURE OF SCIENCE\n		‘NEW WITTGENSTEINIANS’ TAKE A LITERARY SLANT\n		MODERNIST IRONY\n		AN AESTHETIC OF CLARIFICATION\n		ANALOGY, THE ALTERNATIVE\n		LANGUAGE ALWAYS WORKS\n	4: Saussure and the Soviets\n		SAUSSURE OPENS PANDORA’S BOX: THE SOCIAL SIDE OF LANGUAGE\n		KARTSEVSKII TRIES TO CLOSE THE BOX: LANGUAGE AND REVOLUTION\n		VINOKUR: SAUSSURE AND LINGUISTIC POLITICS\n	5: On the Diversity—and Productivity—of Language\n		BAKHTIN: DIVERSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE NOVEL\n		SAUSSURE: THE PRODUCTIVITY OF SOCIAL LIFE\n		BENJAMIN: FROM PURE LANGUAGE TO THE CITY\n		SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS OF A PROVISIONAL SORT\nPART II: MYTH\n	6: Do They Believe in Magic? The Word as Myth, Name, and Art\n		WORD MAGIC, SCIENCE OF SYMBOLISM\n		FREGE GRAPPLES WITH THE PUBLIC\n		INVENTED LANGUAGES: THEIR PLUSES AND MINUSES\n		BAKHTIN, MODERNITY AND MYTH\n	7: Myth You Can Believe In\n		CASSIRER’S STRUGGLE WITH MYTH\n		MAKING STRANGE AS DEMOCRATIZED MYTH: FUTURISTS AND FORMALISTS IN RUSSIA\n		BENJAMIN, THE DIVINE AND THE MYTHIC\n	Excursus: Reversing Out—Sorel’s Heroic Myth, Gramsci’s Slow Magic\n	8: High Anxiety, Becalmed Language: Ordinary Language Philosophy\n		AN ART OF SEEING SENTENCES\n		GESTURES, MUSIC, AND A SIGNIFICANT COMPLICATION\n		MEANWHILE, IN OXFORD\n	Conclusion: Motorways and Cul-de-Sacs—What the Linguistic Turns Turned To\n		SOME FINAL REFLECTIONS\nBibliography\nIndex