Deleuze and Language [Hardcover]

In the field of philosophy of language, is there life beyond Chomsky? Deleuze's deep distrust for, and fascination with language provide a positive answer - nothing less than a brand new philosophy of language, where pragmatics replaces structural linguistics, and where the literary text and the concept of style have pride of place. This should be good news not only for philosophers, but for linguistics and literary critics as well.Acknowledgements Introduction: Deleuze, Beckett, M?me Combat The Problem of Language Interlude I: Images of Trains, Trans of Images; Dickens, Deleuze, Representation Linguistics Has Done a Lot of Harm Events, Sense and the Genesis of Language Interlude 2: Making Sense of Literature: Joyce, Commings, Woolf Another Philosophy of Language: The New Pragmatics Another Philosophy of Language: Machines, Assemblages, Minority Interlude 3: A Reading of Kipling's Wireless Another Philosophy of Language: Style and Stuttering Conclusion Notes Index

'Of great interest to those interested in literary theory, French philosophy, and linguistics, this useful study is without peer.' - M. Uebel, Choice

JEAN-LACQUES LECERCLE is Professor of English at the Universities of Cardiff and Nanterre where he teaches literature, linguistics and the philosophy of language. He is the author of The Violence of Language, Philosophy of Nonsense and Interpretation as Pragmatics.