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William Faulkner

An Economy of Complex Words

Introduction

MY TITLE intends no metaphor in its linking of language and economy. Words, as social instruments, exemplifying what Marx calls "practical consciousness," act upon a reality which they make as much as find. If the real is in a real sense made through words, those words needs must tend to complexity, not least because speakers inherit a language always "already occupied" by prior and unknown users and usage. Since verbal instrumentalists work with a partially known instrument, and in circumstances not of their own design, they, to adapt Marx, are practically unconscious concerning large portions of their practice. Yet that practice, so much incomplete matter made from words, materializes within an economy whose historical conditions form, and take formal complexity from, linguistic work. Five sentences built upon begged questions, compound assumptions, and parabolic bids which it will take an entire study partially to answer, justify, and elucidate. But introductions may perhaps take liberties and should not give the game away. ... read full excerpt from William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words ebook