Brill Academic Publishers | 236 pages | 2006-08-15 | ISBN: 9004147519 | 1,7 MB
The purpose of this book is to give a
precise meaning to the formula. English is the language of imperialism.
Understanding that statement involves a critique of the dominant views
of language, both in the field of linguistics (the book has a chapter
criticising Chomsky’s research programme) and of the philosophy of
language (the book has a chapter assessing Habermas’s philosophy of
communicative action). The book aims at constructing a Marxist
philosophy of language, embodying a view of language as a social,
historical, material and political phenomenon. Since there has never
been a strong tradition of thinking about language in Marxism, the book
provides an overview of the question of Marxism in language (from
Stalin’s pamphlet to Volosinov book, taking in an essay by Pasolini),
and it seeks to construct a number of concepts for a Marxist philosophy
of language. The book belongs to the tradition of Marxist critique of
dominant ideologies. It should be particularly useful to those who, in
the fields of language study, literature and communication studies,
have decided that language is not merely an instrument of communication.
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