Semantics and the Body : : Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern / / Horst Ruthrof.
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run into...
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