Few Books & Good

Dr Garry Williams is fond of quoting Revd Professor O'Donnovan's advice to him: "few books and good".

Feeling that there are far too many books to read about words, language and speech acts, I'm going to look for a few important ones. Maybe:

Derrida, Jacques, Of Grammatology (trans. Spivak) (Baltimore, John Hopkins Univeristy Press, 1975)

- , Limited Inc. (ed. Graff) (Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1988)

Fish, Stanley, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1980)

Ricoeur, Paul, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning (Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Press, 1976)

Saussure, Ferdinand de, Course in General Linguistics (London, Owen, 1960)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford, Blackwell, 1967 / 1953)