- Roy Harris (linguist)
Roy Harris (born
1931 ) is Emeritus Professor ofGeneral Linguistics in theUniversity of Oxford and Honorary Fellow ofSt Edmund Hall . He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston and Paris and visiting fellowships at universities in South Africa and Australia, and at theIndian Institute of Advanced Study .His books on integrationism, theory of communication,
semiology and thehistory of linguistic thought include 'The Language Myth', 'Rethinking Writing', 'Saussure and his Interpreters' and 'The Necessity of Artspeak'.He is a founding member of the
International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) and co-editor of the journal Language & Communication.Integrationism
The main focus of Harris'
research has been the development of an integrational approach to signs and semiological systems, and hence to allhuman communication . His approach, called integrationism orintegrational linguistics , involves looking at current educational practice, together with the wholehistory of linguistic thought fromPlato down to the present day, in a perspective that differs radically from traditional views. Integrationism has important implications for our understanding of interpersonal relations, as well as of modern society and its communicational resources, including the entire range of arts and sciences.Books
*"Synonymy and Linguistic Analysis", 1973, Oxford, Blackwell.
*"The Language-Makers", 1980, London, Duckworth.
*"The Language Myth", 1981, London, Duckworth.
*"F. de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics", 1983, London, Duckworth.
*"The Origin of Writing", 1986, London, Duckworth.
*"Reading Saussure", 1987, London, Duckworth.
*"The Language Machine", 1987, London, Duckworth.
*"Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein", 1988, London, Routledge.
*"La Sémiologie de l'écriture", 1994, Paris, CNRS.
*"Signs of Writing', 1996, London, Routledge.
*"The Language Connection", 1996, Bristol, Thoemmes.
*"Signs, Language and Communication", 1996, London, Routledge.
*"Introduction to Integrational Linguistics", 1998, Oxford, Pergamon.
*"Rethinking Writing", 2000, London, Athlone.
*"Saussure and his Interpreters", 2001, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP.
*"The Necessity of Artspeak", 2003,London, Continuum.
*"The Linguistics of History", 2004, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP.
*"The Semantics of Science", 2005, London, Continuum.
*"Integrationist Notes and Papers 2003-2005", 2006, Crediton, Tree Tongue.
*"Mindboggling", 2008, Luton, The Pantaneto Press.External links
* [http://www.royharrisonline.com/ Roy Harris and Integrational Linguistics]
* [http://www.integrationists.com/ The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) website]
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