The Idea Of A Text And The Nature Of Textual Meaning

Author : Anders Pettersson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266019

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The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning by Anders Pettersson Pdf

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.

Author : James L. Battersby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512809367

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Reason and the Nature of Texts by James L. Battersby Pdf

Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of literature insist on the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the social construction of meaning and thought. Against these markers of current critical theory, James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts. Propelling Battersby's argument is his use of principles and arguments drawn from current philosophical literature on language and mind. Battersby reveals the philosophical shortcomings and argumentative weaknesses of some of the most prominent and influential doctrines in critical theory today—especially, and principally, those that inform and define postmodernism in both its linguistic and historicist/materialist modes. As he argues for a fresh conception of our understanding of language, mind, and meaning, Battersby probes the critical positions of, among others, Stanley Fish, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. Making room for an alternative and, Battersby asserts, more intellectually appealing framework requires a skeptical dissection of the linguistic and historicist tenets that form the foundation of poststructuralism. The striking outcome of his effort is a book as lively, erudite, theoretically informed—and provocative—as his earlier Paradigms Regained.

Author : Carol Burnell,Jaime Wood,Monique Babin,Susan Pesznecker,Nicole Rosevear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350283

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The Word on College Reading and Writing by Carol Burnell,Jaime Wood,Monique Babin,Susan Pesznecker,Nicole Rosevear Pdf

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Author : Mikko Lehtonen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761965513

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The Cultural Analysis of Texts by Mikko Lehtonen Pdf

Drawing upon a range of perspectives from textual and cultural studies, this book synthesizes textual, contextual and audience analysis into an overall picture of meaning making. Using examples ranging from Balzac to blonde jokes, modernist poetry to pop lyrics, the book discusses the factors that contribute to the fomation of meaning: language, media, texts, contexts and readers. In the cultural study of texts - texts, contexts and practices - are equally important, the author argues. Meaning making takes place in the articulation between these different elements. But how can one examine all three areas at the same time? In The Cultural Analysis of Texts, Mikko Lehtonen develops a model to enable just such an approach.

Author : Olga Valentinova,Vladimir Denisenko,Sergey Preobrazhenskii,Mikhail Rybakov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793647726

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The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought by Olga Valentinova,Vladimir Denisenko,Sergey Preobrazhenskii,Mikhail Rybakov Pdf

In The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought, Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii, andMikhail Rybakov explore the interrelation of language material, structure, and functions in various subjects of philological research, such as grammatical systems of language, semantics, linguistic personality, literary text, and formal aspects of verse. Their systemic approach is rooted in the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his followers, including Russian scholars Alexander Potebnya, Gustav Shpet, and more recently Gennadii Prokop’evichMel’nikov (1928–2000). The authors use the concept of systematicity as an opportunity to see the studied whole in development, to show and explain the functional interaction of linear and supra-linear connections, to explain their interdependence, and to predict further changes within the system. This book displays the scientific potential of the systemic approach to linguistics and related spheres, employing the framework of systematicity to revise the modern trends of philology and to map out an alternative paradigm for linguistic and philological thought that could restore the status of philology as a holistic science.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791429016

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Texts by Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

Provides an ontological characterization of texts, explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts, and presents a view of the function of authors and audiences, and of their relations to texts.

Author : Alsayed M. Aly Ismail
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527500563

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Hermeneutics and the Problem of Translating Traditional Arabic Texts by Alsayed M. Aly Ismail Pdf

This book focuses on the problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious texts. Additionally, the reception of these interpretations and translations not only informs the perception of Muslims and their awareness of the outside world, but also impacts the vision and perception of non-Muslims of Islam and the Muslim world. Consequently, this book reconsiders the concepts of understanding and interpretation, and their nexus in the mechanism of translation, and proposes a novel, hermeneutic method of translating, interpreting, and understanding traditional and classical Arab texts. Handling the issues of understanding from a hermeneutical perspective is shown here to remove the possibility of translation and interpretation rendering a distorted translated text. Drawing on the powerful interpretive theories of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger, the hermeneutic method of translation starts from a premise that the meaning of a classical text cannot be deduced solely by linguistic analysis of its words, but requires in-depth investigation of the invisible, contextual elements that control and shape its meaning. Traditional texts are seen in this model as ‘travelling texts’ whose meaning is transformed across time and space. The hermeneutic method of translation allows the translator to identify those elements from the real-world that informed a classical text at the time of its writing, so that it can be adapted and made relevant to its contemporary context. Traditional texts can enlighten our minds and cultivate our souls; religious texts can elevate our behavior and thinking, and help refine our confused contemporary lives. When texts become isolated from their world, they lose this lofty goal of enlightenment and elevation.

Author : Philip G. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136517006

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Texts and Textuality by Philip G. Cohen Pdf

These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy. What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a different theoretical orientation-New Historicism, Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a different text, such as Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, or hypertext fiction, to explore the dialectical relationship between texts and textuality. The essays bring some of the textual theories that compete with each other today into contact with a broad range of primarily literary textual histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable, frequently consisting of a series of determinate historical versions, has consequences for all students of literature, because different versions of a literary work frequently help shape different readings independently of the interpretations brought to bear upon them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C. Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship inaugurated by these scholars. Index.

Author : Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk,Igor A. Mel'cuk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205964

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Semantics by Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk,Igor A. Mel'cuk Pdf

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct transition from a Semantic Representation of the Meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation —including the semantic structure of utterances, the semantics of Causation in English, and communicative, or information, structure. Based on the author's life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.

Author : Christine Helmer
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589832213

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The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meanings by Christine Helmer Pdf

Author : Rangoon Kapoor
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8171881092

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Canonical Texts Of English Literary Criticism With Selections From Classical Poeticians by Rangoon Kapoor Pdf

Author : Dieter Stein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110881196

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Cooperating with Written Texts by Dieter Stein Pdf

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428477

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Virgil on the Nature of Things by Monica R. Gale Pdf

The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.

Author : Keith E. Whittington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002012875

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Constitutional Interpretation by Keith E. Whittington Pdf

With its detailed and wide-ranging explorations in history, philosophy, and law, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how the Constitution ought to be interpreted and what it means to live under a constitutional government."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eugene Francis Kaelin
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 904200665X

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Texts on Texts and Textuality by Eugene Francis Kaelin Pdf

This book argues the case for an American Phenomenology as applied to works of literary art. The argument is made by ten chapters of aesthetic theory and practical criticism, enclosed in a surrounding frame of Preface and Afterword.