1st Edition

Expression and Interpretation in Language

By Susan Petrilli Copyright 2012
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

This book features the full scope of Susan Petrilli's important work on signs, language, communication, and of meaning, interpretation, and understanding. Although readers are likely familiar with otherness, interpretation, identity, embodiment, ecological crisis, and ethical responsibility for the biosphere Petrilli forges new paths where other theorists have not tread. This work of remarkable... Read more
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Communication, Intercorporeity, and Responsibility: For a New Approach to Humanism. 2. Toward a Critique of Identity: On Signs, Bodies, and Values. 3. From Reason to Reasonableness: A Semioethic Approach to Subjectivity. 4. Communication, Language, and Speech from a Global Perspective. 5. Otherness, Dialogism, and Interpretation. 6. Linguistic Production, Ideology, and Otherness: Contributions from Philosophy of Language. 7. Meaning, Metaphor, Interpretation: Modeling New Worlds. 8. Translation, Interpretation, and Communication. Bibliography. Index

Biography

Susan Petrilli