Flashcards in ENGL 4P15 Exam Review Deck (27)
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What is the name of Ferdinand de Saussure's text?
Course in General Linguistics
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What was Saussure's goal?
To establish linguistics as a mode of scientific study by determining the nature of the object it is studying (language)
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What is Saussure's theory of language, i.e. what is language according to Saussure?
Language is a system of signs
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What does Saussure's scientific study that he names "semiology" consist of?
A science that studies the life of signs within a society - what constitutes signs and what are the laws that govern signs
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Why does Saussure oppose a nomenclaturist view on language?
Signs do not simply name pre-existing categories in the material world, but forms these categories and distinct concepts
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What is Saussure's other name for the components that make up the sign (signifier and signified)?
sound-image and concept
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What is the title of Langer's text?
Language and Thought
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What is Langer's full name?
Susanne K. Langer
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Who wrote Cratylus?
Plato
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Who wrote the poem "Plum"?
Helen Chasin
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What text did Aristotle write?
De Interpretatione
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What was the title of St. Augustine's text?
On Christian Doctrine
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What was the title of John Wilkins' text?
An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language
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What is Borges' full name?
Jorge Luis Borges
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What are Borges' two texts?
The Library of Babel
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius
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What was the title of Locke's text?
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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What is the title of Herder's text?
Essay On the Origin of Language
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What is Herder's full name?
Johann Gottfried Herder
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What is the name of von Humboldt's text?
“Introduction” to Concerning the Variety of Human Language and its Influence on the Intellectual Development of the Mind
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What is the title of Friedrich Nietzsche's essay?
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
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What is Austin's full name?
J.L. Austin
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What is the title of J.L. Austin's text?
How to Do Things with Words (an excerpt, so this would be written in italics)
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What is Derrida's first name?
Jacques
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What is the title of Derrida's text?
Signature Event Context
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What is the title of Foucault's text?
The Discourse on Language
OR The Order of Discourse
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What is the title of Kristeva's text?
Revolution in Poetic Language
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