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The idea of a text and the nature of textual meaning /
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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| Colección: | FILLM studies in languages and literatures ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I theory explained
- ch. 1 ordinary conception of a text and the cluster conception
- Two conceptions of what a text is
- ordinary conception of the text in practical use
- Reddy on the metaphors structuring the ordinary understanding of communication
- Cruse on words that allow for facets
- complementarity of the ordinary conception of the text and the cluster conception
- Ontological considerations and the question of how texts exist
- Rudner and Cameron on what a text is
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 2 Exemplars of texts and complexes of signs
- Physical utterances and physical exemplars of texts
- Sounds, marks, and signs
- cryptomental nature of linguistic entities
- complex of signs associated with a text
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 3 Textual meaning
- Sender's textual meaning, receiver's textual meaning, and the question of a higher court of appeal
- Sender's textual meaning
- Receiver's textual meaning
- Commentator's textual meaning
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 4 News Story and A Work of Electronic Literature
- Soble's "Japan Quake Victims ̀Tour' Damaged Homes via Google"
- Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales by Falco and associates
- ch. 5 Poem: "Dickinson 591"
- sender's meaning of "Dickinson 591"
- "Dickinson 591" and receivers' meanings
- Receivers' meanings in literary contexts
- Critics on the theme of "Dickinson 591"
- Two critical cruxes in "Dickinson 591"
- On commentators' meanings
- "Dickinson 591" and the nature of texts
- pt. II theory compared with other theories
- ch. 6 standard linguistic perspective on text and textual meaning
- idea that textual meaning is sender's meaning
- idea that meaning cannot be something mental
- Standard linguistics and language in use
- Limitations in the standard linguistic approach to textual meaning
- Texts as conceived by linguists
- idea that physical utterances are also linguistic expressions
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 7 Analytic-aesthetic views of textual meaning
- Beardsley's conventionalism
- Hirsch's intentionalism
- Tolhurst on textual meaning
- Levinson on textual meaning
- Stecker on textual meaning
- Stecker on what a text does mean
- Levinson and Livingston on truth about what texts mean
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 8 Text and textual meaning as conceived by standard literary theory
- poststructuralist view of textual meaning
- idea that language generates meaning
- idea that context co-determines meaning
- On references to psychological states and human agency
- Derrida on the iterability of signs
- idea that in language there are only differences
- Standard literary theory on what a text is
- Concluding remarks
- ch. 9 idea that texts are unitary objects
- fundamental problem with realism about texts
- idea that a text is an abstract object
- Levinson on the creation of texts
- Wolterstorff on the physical attributes of abstract objects
- On the realists' deeper motives for realism about texts
- Wetzel's principal arguments against eliminativism
- Allegedly non-eliminable references to texts as unitary objects.