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OverviewThis book opposes the position that meanings can be explained by way of intralinguistic relations, as in structural linguistics and its successors, and rejects definitional descriptions of meaning as well as naturalistic accounts. The idea that we are able to live by strings of mere signifiers is shown to rest on a misconception. Ruthrof also attempts an explanation of why arguments grounded in a post-Saussurean view of language, as for instance certain feminist theories, find it so difficult to show how precisely the body can be reclaimed as an integral part of linguistic signs. In reinstating the body in language, Ruthrof draws on Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Derrida, cognitive linguistics and rhetoric, as well as on the writings of Helen Keller. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Horst Ruthrof (Murdoch University, Australia)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781474247290ISBN 10: 1474247296 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 17 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Corporeal Tune 2 There is No Meaning in Language 3 Meaning as Quasi-Perceptual 4 The Body in Deixis and Reference 5 Sign Rapport: Meaning as Intersemiotic 6 Sign Conflict: Meaning as Heterosemiotic 7 The Disembodiment of the Signifier 8 The Corporeality of the Signified 9 Social Traces in Abstract Expressions 10 The Role of the Community 11 Sufficient Semiosis 12 Semantic Assumptions 13 Meaning, Metaphysics and Representation Afterword: Corporeal Semantics and the Obsolete Body Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationHorst Ruthrof is Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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