Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of
reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as
language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less
discussing the outside world than objects they have created
collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that
meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as
implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning
is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction,
thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon.
Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds,
enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of
themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance
in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part
in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.
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