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The Body in Language

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Body in Language

By Horst Ruthrof

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About the book

The primary object of this book is to introduce an alternative approach - heterosemiotic semantics - to the typical ways in which meaning has been theorized. The author attempts to show that any semantics contains unacknowledged political and ideological motivations and convictions. Empiricist assumptions of meaning, as a linkage between language and world, and formal assumptions of meaning, as ruled by definitions, are rejected. Instead, the book offers a semiotic picture in which non-verbal an...Show more

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9780304705801

Publisher

Cassell

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Body in Language

Format

Paperback

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