Beyond the symbol model : reflections on the representational nature of language

Author(s)

• Stewart, John Robert

Bibliographic Information

Beyond the symbol model : reflections on the representational nature of language

edited by John Stewart

（SUNY series in speech communication）

State University of New York Press, c1996

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U. S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact. Three chapters extend this argument, two frame it historically, three disagree, and one contextualizes the "beyond enterprise" itself. The book is a companion volume to Language as Articulate Contact: Toward a Post-Semiotic Philosophy of Communication. These two books contribute to the ongoing conversation about the nature of language that is strongly influencing theory and research in virtually all the human studies.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction Part I. Alternatives to Representational Accounts of Language and Meaning 1. The Symbol Model vs. Language as Constitutive Articulate Contact John Stewart 2. Being and Speaking Gary Madison 3. Before Theory and After Representationalism: Understanding Meaning 'from Within' a Dialogical Practice John Shotter 4. The Communicative Dictionary: A Collaborative Theory of Meaning Gillian L. Roberts and Janet Beavin Bavelas Part II. Postmodern Rediscoveries 5. Friedrich Nietzsche's Theory of Language and Its Reception in Contemporary Thought Ernst Behler 6. Simple Signs, Indeterminate Events: Lyotard on Sophists and Semiotics Andrew R. Smith Part III. Resuscitations of Semiotic Dimensions 7. Semiotic and Transactional Aspects of Language D. S. Clarke 8. A Social Account of Symbols Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz 9. Discourse Worlds and Representation John Wilson Part IV. Continuing the Conversation 10. The Beyond Enterprise Marcelo Dascal Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA29287604
• ISBN:
  • 0791430839
  • 0791430847
• LCCN: 95039476
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 343 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P106
  • DC20 : 401
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Semiotics
  • LCSH : Representation (Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12579900