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Mutual Misunderstanding - Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation (Paperback, New)
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Mutual Misunderstanding - Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation (Paperback, New)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them?
Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned
with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand,
rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we
understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question
is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual
Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts
about communicational understanding do in fact have a profoundly
important, if as yet unacknowledged, function in the construction
of theories of language and interpretation. 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.
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