Language as articulate contact
Subtitle: toward a post-semiotic philosophy of communication
By: John Stewart.
Series: SUNY series in speech communication
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Semiotics; Communication -- Philosophy
Description: This book analyzes the prominent view that language is basically a system of signs and symbols; outlines an alternative that builds on aspects of the philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, Buber, and Bakhtin; and employs this alternative to criticize accounts of language developed by V. N. Volosinov, Kenneth Burke, and Calvin O. Schrag.

From the perspective of communication theory, this book extends some features of the postmodern critique of representationalism to develop a post-semiotic account of the nature of language as dialogic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.