Beyond the Symbol Model
Subtitle: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language (S U N Y Series in Speech Communication)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780791430842
Subjects: Semantics (meaning); Philosophy; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Semiotics & Theory; Representation (Philosophy; Linguistics; General; Language and languages; Semiotics
Description: Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel.

The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact. Three chapters extend this argument, two frame it historically, three disagree, and one contextualizes the "beyond enterprise" itself.