The Body in Language

Horst Ruthrof (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

1999
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-304-33805-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.1999
• Zusatzinfo: 21 figures, bibliogr
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 380 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-304-33805-2 / 0304338052
• ISBN-13: 978-0-304-33805-4 / 9780304338054
• Zustand: Neuware