Meaning and Reading: A Philosophical Essay on Language and Literature

by Michel Meyer

According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity of rewriting it? Instead of retaining a double-standard theory of meaning, one for sentences and another for texts, that would allow for an ad hoc gap,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902722515X
• ISBN13: 9789027225153
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 176 Pages