Harris, Roy
HARRIS, Roy
HARRIS, Roy. British, b. 1931. Genres: Language/Linguistics. Career: Lecturer, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1956-57; Assistant Lecturer, 1957-58, and Lecturer, 1958-60, University of Leicester. Oxford University, Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty, 1961-76, Fellow and Tutor, Keble College, 1967-76, Professor of the Romance Languages, 1976-77, Professor of General Linguistics and Fellow, Worcester College, 1978-88, Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics, 1988-. Ed., Language & Communication, 1980-. Directeur d'etudes associe, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1991-92. Publications: Synonymy and Linguistic Analysis, 1973; Communication and Language, 1978; The Language-Makers, 1980; The Language Myth, 1981; (trans.) Course in General Linguistics, by de Saussure, 1983; The Origin of Writing, 1986; Reading Saussure, 1987; Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein, 1988; (ed.) Linguistic Thought in England, 1914-1945, 1988; Signs of Writing, 1996; The Language Connection, 1996; Introduction to Integrational Linguistics, 1998; Rethinking Writing, 2000; Saussure and His Interpreters, 2001. Address: 2 Paddox Close, Oxford OX2 7LR, England.