Valentin Voloshinov
Valentin Voloshinov (1895–1936) was a Soviet-Russian linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology. Written in the late 1920s in the USSR, Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (tr. of Marksizm i Filosofiya Yazyka) developed a counter-Saussurean linguistics, which situated language use in social process rather than in an entirely decontexualized Saussurean langue.
Books
- Marksizm i Filosofiya Yazyka, 1929.
- Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, trans. Paul Lamplugh, Harvard U Press, 1973, Excerpts.
