Mutations in linguistics during Modernism and Postmodernism

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Mutations in linguistics during Modernism and
Postmodernism

• Migliore Riccardo
• Olivato Federico
• Olivato Riccardo
• Tiberio Marco

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What linguistics is

• Each human language is a complex of knowledge and
  abilities enabling speakers of the language to
  communicate with each other, to express ideas,
  hypotheses, emotions, desires, and all the other
  things that need expressing. Linguistics is the
  study of these knowledge systems in all their
  aspects how is such a knowledge system
  structured, how is it acquired, how is it used in
  the production and comprehension of messages and
  how does it change over time.

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Characteristics of linguistics during the
Victorian Age

• The myth of progress and the idea of a self-made
  man
• Religious crisis man felt lost, no reference
  points
• Philosophical crisis (F. Nietzsche) necessity of
  meaning after the loss of God

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Characteristics of linguistics during the
Modernism

• The discovery of the unconscious by Sigmund
  Freud
• Meaning is the object of a quest
• Linguistics tries to find out the true nature
  of meaning using the arbitrary relationship
  between signifier and signified

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Characteristics of linguistics during the
Postmodernism

• The crisis of the principle of authority
• There is no absolute truth
• Crisis of Capitalism and the idea of a finite
  unique self
• According to Derrida there is no meaning because
  it is always differed

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Jacques Derrida

• Derridas work, which would come to be called
  deconstructionist, suggests that worlds have a
  multiplicity of meaning. Every individual comes
  to a text with personal experience and
  backgrounds that color interpretation, and
  therefore no reading of a text should be
  preferred over any other. When expanded beyond
  literature, the theory of deconstruction comes in
  direct conflict with all systems that judge some
  things as correct and some as incorrect. The
  deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida are
  said to have been an influence on the French
  student uprising of May 1968.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

• Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose
  ideas laid a foundation for many significant
  developments in linguistics in the 20th century.
  According to him, the signifier and the signified
  cant be separated, but as theyre inseparable
  theres an arbitrary relationship between them.
  It is demonstrated when different languages use
  different signifiers to express the same meaning.