“Language is worth a thousand pounds a word”
This paper studies the following axiom: ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ through a series of 11 theses and 16 propositions. It takes as proof an extract from Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956). The author suggests that if brevity is the source of wit thanks to a process of interpellation, this ope...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_2087 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.2087 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.2087 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2087 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n0s https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Language is worth a thousand pounds a word” Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Lecercle, Jean-Jacques language pragmatics philosophy of language Selvon Sam brevity agon interpellation Trinidad pragmatique philosophie du langage Selvon Sam brièveté agon interpellation langage Trinidad This paper studies the following axiom: ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ through a series of 11 theses and 16 propositions. It takes as proof an extract from Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956). The author suggests that if brevity is the source of wit thanks to a process of interpellation, this opens the way to a novel philosophy of language, one which centers on the linguistic agon, in which the primary function of language is not to communicate information but to exert a force that interpellates subjects in the respective positions in which they find themselves. Cette contribution examine l'axiome suivant : « brevity is the soul of wit », au travers de 11 thèses et 16 propositions qui s'appuient sur une analyse d'un extrait du roman de Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956). L'auteur montre que si brevity entraîne wit par une opération d’interpellation, cela engage une autre philosophie du langage que l’habituelle ou la dominante — une philosophie du langage centrée sur l’agonistique, dans laquelle la première fonction du langage n’est pas de communiquer de l’information mais d’impulser une force pour interpeller des sujets à leurs places respectives. |
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This paper studies the following axiom: ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ through a series of 11 theses and 16 propositions. It takes as proof an extract from Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956). The author suggests that if brevity is the source of wit thanks to a process of interpellation, this opens the way to a novel philosophy of language, one which centers on the linguistic agon, in which the primary function of language is not to communicate information but to exert a force that interpellates subjects in the respective positions in which they find themselves. |
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