Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston and Paris and visiting fellowships at universities in South Africa and Australia, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study

Indian Institute of Advanced Study

The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is a prestigious research institute based in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and it started functioning from October 20, 1965....

.

His books on integrationism

Integrational linguistics

Integrational linguistics or integrationism is an approach in the theory of communication that emphasizes the importance of context and rejects rule-based models of language...

, theory of communication, semiology and the history of linguistic thought include 'The Language Myth', 'Rethinking Writing', 'Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics...

 and his Interpreters' and 'The Necessity of Artspeak'.

He is a founding member of the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) and co-editor of the journal Language & Communication.

Integrationism

The main focus of Harris' research

Research

Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

 has been the development of an integrational approach to signs

Sign (semiotics)

A sign is understood as a discrete unit of meaning in semiotics. It is defined as "something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity" It includes words, images, gestures, scents, tastes, textures, sounds – essentially all of the ways in which information can be...

 and semiological systems, and hence to all human communication

Human communication

Human communication, or Anthroposemiotics, is the field dedicated to understanding how people communicate:* with themselves: intrapersonal communication** expression: body language* another person: interpersonal communication...

. His approach, called integrationism

Integrational linguistics

Integrational linguistics or integrationism is an approach in the theory of communication that emphasizes the importance of context and rejects rule-based models of language...

 or integrational linguistics

Integrational linguistics

Integrational linguistics or integrationism is an approach in the theory of communication that emphasizes the importance of context and rejects rule-based models of language...

, involves looking at current educational practice, together with the whole history of linguistic thought from Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

 down to the present day, in a perspective that differs radically from traditional views. Integrationism

Integrational linguistics

Integrational linguistics or integrationism is an approach in the theory of communication that emphasizes the importance of context and rejects rule-based models of language...

has important implications for our understanding of interpersonal relations, as well as of modern society and its communicational resources, including the entire range of arts and sciences.

Books

• "Synonymy and Linguistic Analysis", 1973, Oxford, Blackwell.
• "The Language-Makers", 1980, London, Duckworth.
• "The Language Myth", 1981, London, Duckworth.
• "F. de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics", 1983, London, Duckworth.
• "The Origin of Writing", 1986, London, Duckworth.
• "Reading Saussure", 1987, London, Duckworth.
• "The Language Machine", 1987, London, Duckworth.
• "Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein", 1988, London, Routledge.
• "La Sémiologie de l'écriture", 1994, Paris, CNRS.
• "Signs of Writing', 1996, London, Routledge.
• "The Language Connection", 1996, Bristol, Thoemmes.
• "Signs, Language and Communication", 1996, London, Routledge.
• "Introduction to Integrational Linguistics", 1998, Oxford, Pergamon.
• "Rethinking Writing", 2000, London, Athlone.
• "Saussure and his Interpreters", 2001, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP.
• "The Necessity of Artspeak", 2003, London, Continuum.
• "The Linguistics of History", 2004, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP.
• "The Semantics of Science", 2005, London, Continuum.
• "Integrationist Notes and Papers 2003-2005", 2006, Crediton, Tree Tongue.
• "Mindboggling", 2008, Luton, The Pantaneto Press.
• "Rationality and the Literate Mind", 2009, London, Taylor & Francis.
• "After Epistemology", 2009, Gamlingay, Bright Pen.
• "The Great Debate About Art", 2010, Prickly Paradigm Press.

External links

• Roy Harris and Integrational Linguistics
• The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) website