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Author Ruthrof, Horst.

Title The body in language / Horst Ruthrof
Published London ; New York : Cassell, 2000

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Description 880-01 ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm
880-01 ix, 193 σ. : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Chapter 1 The corporeal turn 6 -- Chapter 2 There is no meaning in language 22 -- Chapter 3 Meaning as quasi-perceptual 34 -- Chapter 4 The body in deixis and reference 48 -- Chapter 5 Sign rapport: meaning as intersemiotic 60 -- Chapter 6 Sign conflict: meaning as heterosemiotic 72 -- Chapter 7 The disembodiment of the signifier 85 -- Chapter 8 The corporeality of the signified 98 -- Chapter 9 Social traces in abstract expressions 117 -- Chapter 10 The role of the community 131 -- Chapter 11 Sufficient semiosis 140 -- Chapter 12 Semantic assumptions 151 -- Chapter 13 Meaning, metaphysics and representation 169 -- Afterword: Corporeal semantics and the obsolete body 177
Analysis Nonverbal communication
Semiotics
Semantics
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index
Subject Nonverbal communication.
Semiotics.
Semantics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
LC no. 99019274
ISBN 0304338052
9780304338054
0304705802
9780304705801