Linguistic signs do not coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. For Paul de Man, on the contrary, it suggested that language is unstable, random, arbitrary, mechanical, ironic and inhuman. This book seeks to show that relevance theory is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and literary interpretation than the deconstructionist theory de Man elaborated from readings of Rousseau, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
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Ian MacKenzie is Lecturer in English Language, Université de Lausanne.
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The book is a bold attempt to challenge the conventionalized wisdom that has hegamonized our understanding of reading for long now. By articulating a pragmatically oriented approach to reading, the author has presented a stunning array of insights and issues which if used in the context of teaching reading/literacy, will yield countless benefits to the teaching-learning communities around the world and across the cultures.
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Theories of literary meaning all agree on at least one point: that linguistic signs or signifiers never wholly coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak implicatures, inferential recognition, ich nur meine, interpretive representations, maximal relevance, informative intention, optimal relevance, positing power, performative rhetoric, lurid figures, relevance theory, wartime journalism, kann nicht sagen, inferential nature, contextual assumptions, metaphorical origin, figural meaning, cognitive environment, inhuman nature, free indirect speech, processing effort Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul de Man, Norman Holland, Dan Sperber, Ire Man, Stanley Fish, Archie Bunker, Fourth Promenade, Frank Kermode, Hillis Miller, Paradigms of Reading, Wlad Godzich, Allegories of Reading, Lyrical Ballads, Marcel Raymond, Roman Jakobson New!
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Theories of literary meaning all agree on at least one point: that linguistic signs or signifiers never wholly coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak implicatures, inferential recognition, ich nur meine, interpretive representations, maximal relevance, informative intention, optimal relevance, positing power, performative rhetoric, lurid figures, relevance theory, wartime journalism, kann nicht sagen, inferential nature, contextual assumptions, metaphorical origin, figural meaning, cognitive environment, inhuman nature, free indirect speech, processing effort Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul de Man, Norman Holland, Dan Sperber, Ire Man, Stanley Fish, Archie Bunker, Fourth Promenade, Frank Kermode, Hillis Miller, Paradigms of Reading, Wlad Godzich, Allegories of Reading, Lyrical Ballads, Marcel Raymond, Roman Jakobson New!
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- Resistance To Theory (Theory and History of Literature) by Paul De Man on 7 pages
- Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7) by Paul De Man on 5 pages
- A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 4 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics) by I.A. Richards on page 39, page 108, and Back Matter
- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 124, page 127, and page 131
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- Chinese Law: A Language Perspective by Deborah Cao on page 118, and Back Matter
- What Is Narratology?: Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory (Narratologia, 1) by Tom Kindt on page 86
- The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure and Exegesis (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Stephen Pattemore in Back Matter
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