Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein
How to Play Games with Words
By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris
- Price: $49.95
- Binding/Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-415-05225-2
- Publish Date: October 25th 1990
- Imprint: Routledge
- Pages: 152 pages
Series: History of Linguistic Thought
Description
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from very different intellectual sources, this study breaks new ground.