Language As Articulate Contact: Toward a Post-Semiotic Philosophy of Communication

John Robert Stewart

318 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 0791422887

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Language: English

Publish: January 25, 1995

This book analyzes the prominent view that language is basically a system of signs and symbols; outlines an alternative that builds on aspects of the philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, Buber, and Bakhtin; and employs this alternative to criticize accounts of language developed by V. N. Volosinov, Kenneth Burke, and Calvin O. Schrag. From the perspective of communication theory, this book extends some features of the postmodern critique of representationalism to develop a post-semiotic account of the nature of language as dialogic.

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