Language: The Unknown

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Preface
Part I. Introduction to Linguistics
Introduction
1. Language, La Langue, Speech, and Discourse
2. The Linguistic Sign
3. The Materiality of Language
Part II. Language in History
Introduction
4. Anthropology and Linguistics: The Knowledge of Language in So-Called Primitive Societies
5. The Egyptians: Their Writing
6. Mesopotamian Civilization: The Sumerians and Akkadians
7. China: Writing as Science
8. Indian Linguistics
9. The Phoenician Alphabet
10. The Hebrews: The Bible and the Cabala
11. Logical Greece
12. Rome: The Transmission of Greek Grammar
13. Arab Grammar
14. Medieval Speculations
15. Humanists and Grammarians of the Renaissance
16. The Grammar of Port-Royal
17. The Encyclopédie: La Langue and Nature
18. Language as History
19. Structural Linguistics
Part III. Language and Languages
20. Psychoanalysis and Language
21. The Practice of Language
22. Semiotics
Conclusion
Notes
Works Principally Relied On
Index