Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation

by Talbot J. Taylor

Book Overview

Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822312492
• ISBN13: 9780822312499
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"