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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Missing Body in Semantics
- 1. Towards a Corporeal Semantics
- 2. Natural Language and Meaning as Definition
- 3. The Semantics of Negation and Metaphor
- 4. Meaning and Poststructuralism
- 5. Semantics and the Postmodern
- Conclusion: The Corporeal Turn
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index