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Beyond the symbol model : reflections on the representational nature of language / edited by John Stewart. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in speech communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Semiotics.
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 343 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
- Summary:
- Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact. Three chapters extend this argument, two frame it historically, three disagree, and one contextualizes the "beyond enterprise" itself.
- Contents:
- 1. The Symbol Model vs. Language as Constitutive Articulate Contact / John Stewart
- 2. Being and Speaking / Gary Madison
- 3. Before Theory and After Representationalism: Understanding Meaning 'from Within' a Dialogical Practice / John Shotter
- 4. The Communicative Dictionary: A Collaborative Theory of Meaning / Gillian L. Roberts and Janet Beavin Bavelas
- 5. Friedrich Nietzsche's Theory of Language and Its Reception in Contemporary Thought / Ernst Behler
- 6. Simple Signs, Indeterminate Events: Lyotard on Sophists and Semiotics / Andrew R. Smith
- 7. Semiotic and Transactional Aspects of Language / D.S. Clarke
- 8. A Social Account of Symbols / Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
- 9. Discourse Worlds and Representation / John Wilson
- 10. The Beyond Enterprise / Marcelo Dascal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2121-4
- 0-585-06042-8
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