Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern (Toronto Studies in - Softcover
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Semantics and the Body has been described as 'a tacit indictment of the slovenliness which characterises some of the fashionable discourse about "the body"' and praised as a 'first-rate contribution to its field'. Ruthrof reviews and analyses various 'orthodox' theories of meaning from the views of Gottlob Frege at the beginning of the twentieth century to the postmodern period, and then offers an alternative approach of his own. His theory features 'corporeal semantics' and holds that meaning has ultimately to do with the body and that linguistic expressions cannot mean anything unless they are activated by visual, tactile, and other non-verbal signs.
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Horst Ruthrof teaches in English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, where he holds a personal chair. His research interests are in a theoretical pluralism, with emphases on narrative, phenomenology, semiotics and a critique of theories of meaning.
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Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern (Toronto Studies in
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Melbourne University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0522848125
ISBN 13: 9780522848120
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