NearbySaussure

Type:	Dataset
Source(s):	aaaaarg.fail
Developed by:	Ferdinand de Saussure, Carol Sanders (editor), Beata Stawarska, Robert M. Strozier, Algolit

nearbySaussure is a compiled dataset that arose out of an interest in structuralist linguistics and the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). Saussure's interest manifested in what he called semiology: “a science which would study the life of signs within society”[]

The dataset consist of the following three books that are secondary literature. The texts are not written by Saussure himself but are rather reflection on his thinking:

• The Cambridge Companion to Saussure, by Carol Sanders (editor), Anna Morpurgo Davies, Rudolf Engler, John E. Joseph, W. Terrence Gordon, Claudine Normand, Julia S. Falk, Christian Puech, Stephen C. Hutchings, Steven Ungar, Peter Wunderli, Geoffrey Bennington, Simon Bouquet, Christopher Norris, Paul Bouissac
• Saussure's Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics, by Beata Stawarska
• Saussure, Derrida, and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity, by Robert M. Strozier

The selection of these books are driven by an interest to work with a dataset that is constructed by a range of different voices around a single topic.