This book opposes the position that meanings can be explained by
way of intralinguistic relations, as in structural linguistics and
its successors, and rejects definitional descriptions of meaning as
well as naturalistic accounts. The idea that we are able to live by
strings of mere signifiers is shown to rest on a misconception.
Ruthrof also attempts an explanation of why arguments grounded in a
post-Saussurean view of language, as for instance certain feminist
theories, find it so difficult to show how precisely the body can
be reclaimed as an integral part of linguistic signs. In
reinstating the body in language, Ruthrof draws on Peirce, Husserl,
Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Derrida, cognitive linguistics and
rhetoric, as well as on the writings of Helen Keller.
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