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1 online resource. |
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FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; volume 7
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FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 7.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 many practical purposes, but inadequate in discussions of a theoretically more demanding nature. Having clearly demonstrated its intellectual drawbacks, he develops an alternative, boldly revisionary way of thinking about text and textual meaning. His careful argument is in challenging dialogue with assumptions about language-in-use to be found in a wide range of present-day literary theory, linguistics, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of language. |
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Machine generated contents note: 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. |
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Discourse analysis, Literary.
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Discourse analysis, Literary. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Linguistics -- Philosophy.
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Linguistics -- Philosophy. |
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Criticism, Textual.
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Criticism, Textual. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Pettersson, Anders, 1946- Idea of a text and the nature of textual meaning. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027201348 (DLC) 2016057189 |
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9789027266019 (pdf) |
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9027266018 (pdf) |
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9789027201348 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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