Snow
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru
(An Autonomous institute Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.)

Library and Information Center

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Meaning and reading : a philosophical essay on language and literature / Michel Meyer.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; IV:3Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1983.Description: viii, 176 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 902722515X :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.43 MEY 19
LOC classification:
  • P325 .M44 1983
Contents:
1. Acknowledgments; 2. 0. Introduction; 3. 1. The Classical Conception of Meaning and its Shortcomings; 4. 1.1. Meaning in a literary setting; 5. 1.2. The arguments for the defense; 6. 1.3. More about the propositional theory of language and its semantic consequences: the Xerox theory of meaning; 7. 1.4. Context matters; 8. 2. Toward an Integrated Theory of Meaning; 9. 2.1. The question of the validity of the substitution view; 10. 2.2. The problematological view of language; 11. 2.3. The problematological theory of reference; 12. 2.4. Reference and meaning; 13. 2.5. From substitutions to questions; 14. 2.6. Is meaning really substitutional?; 15. 2.7. Conclusion; 16. 3. The Rhetoric of Textuality; 17. 3.1. Textual meaning is rhetorical; 18. 3.2. Rhetoric and argumentation; 19. 3.3. Why should rhetoric (argumentation) be problematologically conceptualized?; 20. 3.4. Literary versus non-literary discourse; 21. 3.5 What is literature?; 22. 4. Ideas and Ideology; 23. 4.1. The nature of ideas; 24. 4.2. Ideas and questions in Plato's theory; 25. 4.3. Ideas and political ideologies; 26. 4.4. The logic of ideology; 27. 5. The Nature of Literariness; 28. 5.1. Ideas and textuality; 29. 5.2. Literature and political ideology; 30. 5.3. The dialectics of fiction; 31. 5.4. Fiction and reality; 32. 5.5. Literary forms as means of materializing the problematological difference; 33. 5.6. The birth of the novel: Don Quixote as an illustration; 34. 5.7. Conclusion; 35. 6. The Interpretative Process; 36. 6.1. Beyond traditions and omissions; 37. 6.2. Answerhood as meaning; 38. 6.3. The hermeneutic question and its answer; 39. 6.4. Textuality as the meeting point of poetics and hermeneutics; 40. 6.5. Where do we find the questions answered by a text?; 41. 6.6. Textual dialectics; 42. Footnotes; 43. References
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Cover image Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Vol info URL Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds Item hold queue priority Course reserves
Stack text books All India Institute of Speech and Hearing 29/2 401.43 MEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 8136
Total holds: 0

Bibliography: p. [173]-176.

1. Acknowledgments; 2. 0. Introduction; 3. 1. The Classical Conception of Meaning and its Shortcomings; 4. 1.1. Meaning in a literary setting; 5. 1.2. The arguments for the defense; 6. 1.3. More about the propositional theory of language and its semantic consequences: the Xerox theory of meaning; 7. 1.4. Context matters; 8. 2. Toward an Integrated Theory of Meaning; 9. 2.1. The question of the validity of the substitution view; 10. 2.2. The problematological view of language; 11. 2.3. The problematological theory of reference; 12. 2.4. Reference and meaning; 13. 2.5. From substitutions to questions; 14. 2.6. Is meaning really substitutional?; 15. 2.7. Conclusion; 16. 3. The Rhetoric of Textuality; 17. 3.1. Textual meaning is rhetorical; 18. 3.2. Rhetoric and argumentation; 19. 3.3. Why should rhetoric (argumentation) be problematologically conceptualized?; 20. 3.4. Literary versus non-literary discourse; 21. 3.5 What is literature?; 22. 4. Ideas and Ideology; 23. 4.1. The nature of ideas; 24. 4.2. Ideas and questions in Plato's theory; 25. 4.3. Ideas and political ideologies; 26. 4.4. The logic of ideology; 27. 5. The Nature of Literariness; 28. 5.1. Ideas and textuality; 29. 5.2. Literature and political ideology; 30. 5.3. The dialectics of fiction; 31. 5.4. Fiction and reality; 32. 5.5. Literary forms as means of materializing the problematological difference; 33. 5.6. The birth of the novel: Don Quixote as an illustration; 34. 5.7. Conclusion; 35. 6. The Interpretative Process; 36. 6.1. Beyond traditions and omissions; 37. 6.2. Answerhood as meaning; 38. 6.3. The hermeneutic question and its answer; 39. 6.4. Textuality as the meeting point of poetics and hermeneutics; 40. 6.5. Where do we find the questions answered by a text?; 41. 6.6. Textual dialectics; 42. Footnotes; 43. References

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.