The construction of a Marxist theory of language as a social, material and political phenomenon .
This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. It argues that this shadey side of language is more important in our everyday speech than linguists and philosophers recognize.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle's amusing yet rigorous account of how the genre of nonsense was constructed, and why such writers as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are of enduring significance to both philosophy and linguistics.