The Body in Language - Horst Ruthrof

The Body in Language

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
1999
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-304-70580-1 (ISBN)
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The primary object of this book is to introduce an alternative approach - heterosemiotic semantics - to the typical ways in which meaning has been theorized. The author attempts to show that any semantics contains unacknowledged political and ideological motivations and convictions. Empiricist assumptions of meaning, as a linkage between language and world, and formal assumptions of meaning, as ruled by definitions, are rejected. Instead, the book offers a semiotic picture in which non-verbal and verbal signs are combined to constitute the world by way of interpretive acts. In such a semantics, metaphor plays a central role because it brings to the surface the intersemiotic and heterosemiotic labour which we perform in the processes of making meaning.

Part 1 Introduction: meaning - a survey. Part 2 The heterosemantic position: meaning and the missing body; meaning as intersemantic corroboration; meaning as heterosemantic negotiation; the heterosemantics of metaphor. Part 3 Debunking orthodoxies: the failure of Saussurean semantics; meaning as definition - a post factum illusion; meaning as language and world - an empirical fallacy; the politics of semantics. Part 4 Conclusion: pedagogic implications.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.1999
Zusatzinfo 21 figures, bibliogr
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 379 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-304-70580-2 / 0304705802
ISBN-13 978-0-304-70580-1 / 9780304705801
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