The Body in Language

by Horst Ruthrof

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304338052
• ISBN13: 9780304338054
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cassell
• Length: 193 Pages