Roland Barthes: La Chambre claire

Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ri...

Claire Walczak

favourite plants. Linnaeus’s affection for it has been well documented: he used it as a mattress and cover when he slept in woods during his journeys across Sweden. This month also sees the opening of a new exhibition to celebrate Linnaeus at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, exploring the unseen wildlife in London from a number of sites. Created by the US artist, Mark Dion, it re...

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Roland Bluhm

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential benefit of corpus analysis, a (partly) empirical method from linguistics, for philosophy� ‘Corpus analysis’ is not only the name of the method, but also a rough description of it, because the method consists in analysing data taken from linguistic text corpora� In linguistics, using such text corpora is an established practice� A fair number of ...