Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
About the Book Series
Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory presents an integrationist approach to problems of language and communication. Integrationism has emerged in recent years as a radically innovative theoretical position. It challenges the most basic assumptions underlying orthodox twentieth-century linguistics, including those taken for granted by leading structuralists, post-structuralists and generativists. According to integrationists, human communication is an essentially creative enterprise: it relies very little on the 'codes', 'systems', 'habits' and 'rules' postulated by orthodox theorists. Instead, integrationists see the communicative life of each individual as part of a continuous attempt to integrate the present with the past and the future. The success of this attempt depends crucially on the ability to contextualise on-going events rather than on any mastery of established conventions.
The books in this series are aimed at a multidisciplinary readership comprising those engaged in study, teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, the arts, education, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and psychology.
Translation in Signs: An Integrational Approach
1st Edition
By Sinead Kwok
December 29, 2025
What is translation? What is a sign? This book answers these questions and gives a critical review of how the West has been theorizing translation, in terms of theorizing the sign, a ‘unit’ of our communication. From the promotion of servitude to the craving for creativity, the suspicious conceit ...
Fundamentals of Integrationism and Foundations of Meaning
1st Edition
By Xuan Fang
November 03, 2025
This book looks at a long-standing question about "meaning" and the human experience — specifically, why meaning seems easy to recognize but hard to fully explain, especially from the perspective of integrationism. Fang’s book pins down the fundamentals of Roy Harris’s integrational linguistics and...
Signs in Activities: New Directions for Integrational Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorthe Duncker, Adrian Pablé
March 27, 2024
This book is a collective volume bringing together scholars who share an interest in linguistics from an integrational point of view and in developing new directions for future scholarship. Integrational linguistics invites us to rethink the theoretical and methodological premises of general ...
Integrational Linguistics and Philosophy of Language in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Sinfree B. Makoni, Deryn P. Verity, Anna Kaiper-Marquez
January 09, 2023
Exploring the nature of possible relationships between Integrational Linguistics and Southern Epistemologies, this volume examines various ways in which Integrational Linguistics can be used to support the decolonizing interests of Southern Epistemologies, particularly the lay-oriented nature of ...
Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume II: Co-articulating Self and World
1st Edition
By Paul J. Thibault
August 01, 2022
Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term "language" as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked volumes of Thibault’s study articulate ...
Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume I: The Sense-making Body
1st Edition
By Paul J. Thibault
May 30, 2022
Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term ‘language’ as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably, limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked volumes of Thibault’s study articulate ...
Rethinking Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Hayley G. Davis, Talbot J. Taylor
March 31, 2015
This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to this basic problem within general ...
Words - An Integrational Approach
1st Edition
By Hayley G. Davis
March 31, 2015
Aims to reorient the study of language by taking into serious consideration the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers themselves, as a response to the now inescapable conclusion that traditional linguistic theory, with its focus on revealing 'the facts of language in general', ...
The Language Myth in Western Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Harris
October 23, 2013
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from...
Language and History: Integrationist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Love
June 03, 2013
When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be treated as historical objects, evolving through gradual but constant processes of change over long periods of time. In recent years, ...
Rationality and the Literate Mind
1st Edition
By Roy Harris
May 23, 2013
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations
1st Edition
By Per Linell
November 25, 2011
Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and...