CFP: Voyages of Signs: Language, Ideology, and the Human (10/15/06; collection)

VOYAGES OF SIGNS: LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND THE HUMAN
eds. Sanja Bahun and Dusan Radunovic
 
The phenomenon of language has never ceased to captivate the human imagination. In a wide span from the controversy of its ontological status (the debate over ‘words and things’) to the paradoxes of the language-thought correlation and the ideological (mis)use of language, the multiple ways in which language structures the human have provoked systematic and oftentimes socially radical theoretical articulations. The editors invite contributions for a collection of essays that aims to reassess and reposition the study of language in its intricate relation to ideology and the apprehension of the human subject.
 
We welcome proposals that deal with, but are not limited to, the issue of the human and the following concerns and authors:
 
-"semanticizing" Saussure’s linguistics in the light of Bouquet-Engler’s 2002 edition of Ecrits de linguistic generale;
-language and symbolic power structures: Bourdieu, Latour, Habermas;
-heteroglotic liberation of the human: Bakhtin, Gramsci, and others;
-the socio-linguistic and psychoanalytic subject: Freud, Lacan;
-from philosophy of language to philosophy as language—from Plato to Derrida.
 
Please submit 500 word abstracts to the editors, Dusan Radunovic (d.radunovic_at_sheffield.ac.uk) and Sanja Bahun (sanjislava_at_yahoo.com) by 15 October 2006. The decisions will be reached in November 2006 and the book is scheduled to appear in print in 2008.

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