Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)

Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Acknowledgements; Introduction; A letter The linguist tries The linguist fails The reminder; 1 Linguistics and the Remainder; A corpus of texts Inferences from the corpus Non-Saussurean linguistics? A first approach to the remainder: L’Amour de la langue A second approach to the remainder: A Thousand Plateaux The Courbet view of language; 2 The Rag-Bag; Gathering the rag-bag The remainder as excess Multiple analysis, or Brissetizing language False synthesis, or Wolfsonizing language Overview conclusion; 3 A Theory of the Remainder; Language speaks, I speak language Die Sprache spricht and codice di avviamento fantastico Rules for the remainder? The remainder, the dictionary, and the encyclopedia; 4 Metaphor; Hints about metaphor Metaphor and the remainder Two poems The effect of metaphor Metaphor and sense; 5 Corruption; Corruption Etymology Linguistic conjuncture Linguistic intervention Corruption revisited: Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker Flowers; 6 The Violence of Language; The non-autonomy of language The material violence of language: language and the body The social violence of language :anguage, truth, and fiction; Conclusion; Index