《索绪尔语言学、结构主义和现象学——〈普通语言学教程〉问世一个世纪后》评介

A Review of Saussure’s Linguistics,Structuralism,and Phenomenology—The Course in General Linguistics after a Century

1916年出版的《普通语言学教程》是对语言学家费尔迪南·德·索绪尔思想的系统阐释,是20世纪以来一部具有里程碑意义的著作。美国俄勒冈大学哲学系的Beata Stawarska于2020年出版的这本《索绪尔语言学、结构主义和现象学——〈普通语言学教程〉问世一个世纪后》是第一本面向广大跨学科受众,探究《普通语言学教程》合理性的学术著作。该书强调了索绪尔语言学知识的复杂性,并阐述了索绪尔语言学与两个当代哲学思想——结构主义和现象学的相关性。

The Course in General Linguistics,published in 1916,is a systematic interpretation of the thoughts of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure,and a landmark work since the 20th century.Saussure’s Linguistics,Structuralism,and Phenomenology—The Course in General Linguistics after a Century,written by Beata Stawarska in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon in 2020,is the first scholarly work to explore the plausiveness of The Course in General Linguistics for a broad interdisciplinary audience.The book emphasizes the complexity of Saussure’s linguistic expertise and expounds the relevance between Saussure’s linguistics and two contemporary philosophical thoughts:structuralism and phenomenology.