| Author | : Michel Meyer |
| File Size | : 45,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 January 1983 |
| ISBN | : 9789027225153 |
| Pages | : 187 pages |
Meaning and Reading by Michel Meyer Book PDF Summary
According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity of rewriting it? Instead of retaining a double-standard theory of meaning, one for sentences and another for texts, that would allow for an ad hoc gap, the author provides a unified conception, called the question view of language he has developed, known as problematology. He pursues a systematic analysis of questioning in literature and shows how questioning makes the understanding process possible.