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 Sinéad Kwok
February 11, 2026
What is translation? What is a sign? This book answers these questions and gives a critical review of how the West has been theorising translation, in terms of theorising 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
July 31, 2025
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 ...
Integrationism and the Self: Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals
1st Edition
By Christopher Hutton
June 30, 2021
In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book draws from integrational semiology to ...
The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry: Integrational Linguistics in Practice
1st Edition
By Dorthe Duncker
June 30, 2020
This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not be able to make sense of everyday linguistic ...
Critical Humanist Perspectives: The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Pablé
September 25, 2019
The present book is a collection of scholarly reflections on the theme of humanism from an integrational linguistic perspective. It studies humanist thought in relation to the philosophy of language and communication underpinning it and considers the question whether being a ‘humanist’ binds one to...
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...