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"Actually the book on disc that I'm listening to write now (Kafka, Metamorphosis) has a super long intro about the fact that he is Jewish, but using the Prague version of German (the hegemonic language). In countries where German was not an imposed language, i.e. where German was a native language, idiom is necessary for expression. But since it ( Read more... )

Saussure believed that language constructs rather than reflects reality. For example, time passes in all cultures but, unless and until a community agrees signifiers for "yesterday, "today", and "tomorrow", there is no conceptual framework within which to discuss the passage of time. Further, even though measurement systems based on diurnal and ( Read more... )