The Idea Of A Text And The Nature Of Textual Meaning
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Author |
: Anders Pettersson |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2017-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027266019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027266018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning by : Anders Pettersson
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for many practical purposes, but inadequate in discussions of a theoretically more demanding nature. Having clearly demonstrated its intellectual drawbacks, he develops an alternative, boldly revisionary way of thinking about text and textual meaning. His careful argument is in challenging dialogue with assumptions about language-in-use to be found in a wide range of present-day literary theory, linguistics, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of language.
Author |
: Carol Burnell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1636350283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781636350288 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Word on College Reading and Writing by : Carol Burnell
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Author |
: Stefan Titscher |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2000-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781446232842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1446232840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis by : Stefan Titscher
′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse Studies Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis. Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others′ methods and procedures.
Author |
: Albert J. Mills |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications |
Total Pages |
: 1699 |
Release |
: 2009-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506320274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506320279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Case Study Research by : Albert J. Mills
Case study research has a long history within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, dating back to the early 1920′s. At first it was a useful way for researchers to make valid inferences from events outside the laboratory in ways consistent with the rigorous practices of investigation inside the lab. Over time, case study approaches garnered interest in multiple disciplines as scholars studied phenomena in context. Despite widespread use, case study research has received little attention among the literature on research strategies. The Encyclopedia of Case Study Research provides a compendium on the important methodological issues in conducting case study research and explores both the strengths and weaknesses of different paradigmatic approaches. These two volumes focus on the distinctive characteristics of case study research and its place within and alongside other research methodologies. Key Features Presents a definition of case study research that can be used in different fields of study Describes case study as a research strategy rather than as a single tool for decision making and inquiry Guides rather than dictates, readers′ understanding and applications of case study research Includes a critical summary in each entry, which raises additional matters for reflection Makes case study relevant to researchers at various stages of their careers, across philosophic divides, and throughout diverse disciplines Key Themes Academic Disciplines Case Study Research Design Conceptual Issues Data Analysis Data Collection Methodological Approaches Theoretical Traditions Theory Development and Contributions From Case Study Research Types of Case Study Research
Author |
: James L. Battersby |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2016-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781512809367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1512809365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reason and the Nature of Texts by : James L. Battersby
Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of literature insist on the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the social construction of meaning and thought. Against these markers of current critical theory, James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts. Propelling Battersby's argument is his use of principles and arguments drawn from current philosophical literature on language and mind. Battersby reveals the philosophical shortcomings and argumentative weaknesses of some of the most prominent and influential doctrines in critical theory today—especially, and principally, those that inform and define postmodernism in both its linguistic and historicist/materialist modes. As he argues for a fresh conception of our understanding of language, mind, and meaning, Battersby probes the critical positions of, among others, Stanley Fish, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. Making room for an alternative and, Battersby asserts, more intellectually appealing framework requires a skeptical dissection of the linguistic and historicist tenets that form the foundation of poststructuralism. The striking outcome of his effort is a book as lively, erudite, theoretically informed—and provocative—as his earlier Paradigms Regained.
Author |
: Tymon Adamczewski |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2016-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476626420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476626421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Following the Textual Revolution by : Tymon Adamczewski
Analysis of literature and culture abounds in modern scholarship, customarily written in the familiar language of literary theory. Though the terminology today seems (more or less) straightforward, this was not always the case. The propositions for a new and active understanding of "text," put forward in the 1960s by theorists like Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, profoundly influenced contemporary critical thought and were unnerving to many. This book examines how a divergent school of literary and cultural studies created French Theory, appropriated its ideas about text and texuality and altered the landscape of debate in mainstream academic discourse. The author traces the standardization of a once "rebellious" poststructuralism and presents contemporary critical thinking that questions the assumptions of "Theory."
Author |
: G. Thomas Tanselle |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 106 |
Release |
: 2010-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812200423 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081220042X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Rationale of Textual Criticism by : G. Thomas Tanselle
Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated. The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be textual errors, inevitably exercises critical judgment and reflects a particular point of view toward the nature of literature. And the literary critic, in interpreting the meaning of a work or passage, needs to be (though rarely is) critical of the makeup of every text of it, including those produced by scholarly editors.
Author |
: Jorge J. E. Gracia |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791429016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791429013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Texts by : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Provides an ontological characterization of texts, explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts, and presents a view of the function of authors and audiences, and of their relations to texts.
Author |
: Michael Burke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 2017-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317747208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317747208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics by : Michael Burke
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience and cover core issues that include: historical perspectives centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism the elements of stylistic analysis that include the linguistic levels of foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech acts, speech and thought presentation and point of view current areas of ‘hot topic’ research, such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics and feminist/critical stylistics emerging and future trends including the stylistics of multimodality, creative writing, hypertext fiction and neuroscience Each of the thirty-two chapters provides: an introduction to the subject; an overview of the history of the topic; an analysis of the main current and critical issues; a section with recommendations for practice, and a discussion of possible future trajectory of the subject. This handbook includes chapters written by some of the leading stylistics scholars in the world today, including Jean Boase-Beier, Joe Bray, Michael Burke, Beatrix Busse, Ronald Carter, Billy Clark, Barbara Dancygier, Catherine Emmott, Charles Forceville, Margaret Freeman, Christiana Gregoriou, Geoff Hall, Patrick Colm Hogan, Lesley Jeffries, Marina Lambrou, Michaela Mahlberg, Rocio Montoro, Nina Nørgaard, Dan Shen, Michael Toolan and Sonia Zyngier. The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.
Author |
: John Barton |
Publisher |
: Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780664225872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 066422587X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of Biblical Criticism by : John Barton
Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments in biblical studies, John Barton demonstrates that these evaluations of biblical criticism fail to do justice to the work that has been done by critical scholars over many generations. Traditional biblical criticism has had as its central concern a semantic interest: a desire to establish the "plain sense" of the biblical text, which in itself requires sensitivity to many literary aspects of texts. Therefore, he argues, biblical criticism already includes many of the methodological approaches now being recommended as alternatives to it and, further, the agenda of biblical studies is far less fragmented than often thought.