The Body in Language

by Horst Ruthrof

Book Overview

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"