Mutual misunderstanding : scepticism and the theorizing of language and interpretation
Talbot J. Taylor (Author)
Annotation Mutual Misundertanding thus presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patterns underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Grice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel, and others.
This analysis reveals how, by the combined effect of appeals to "commonsense" and anxieties about implications of relativism, scepticism has a determining role in the discursive development of a number of the intellectual disciplines making up the "human sciences" today, including critical theory, literary hermeneutics, philosophy of language and logic, communication theory, discourse and conversation analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and linguistics. Consequently, this provocative study will be of value to readers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
This analysis reveals how, by the combined effect of appeals to "commonsense" and anxieties about implications of relativism, scepticism has a determining role in the discursive development of a number of the intellectual disciplines making up the "human sciences" today, including critical theory, literary hermeneutics, philosophy of language and logic, communication theory, discourse and conversation analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and linguistics. Consequently, this provocative study will be of value to readers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations
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To Remedy the Abuse of Words: On Addressing Understanding. On How We Ought to Understand
Communicational Codes: On How We Naturally Understand. On What Understanding Must Be. On Knowing What We Understand
Communicational Reasoning: On Reaching an Understanding. On Understanding What to Do
Communicational Practice: On BelievingWe Understand. On Acting like We Understand. On Doing "Understanding"
Denouement: On Whether (We Believe) We Understand Each Other
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010