The Body in Language
(Part of the Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections Series)
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This 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1474247296
ISBN13:9781474247290
Release Date:December 2015
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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