Paradigms of Reading
Subtitle: Relevance Theory and Deconstruction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780333968338
Subjects: Literary theory; Philosophy of language; Pragmatics; Stylistics; Linguistics; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Communication; Hermeneutics; Reference (Linguistics); Relevance; Rhetoric; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Theories of literary meaning all agree on at least one point: that linguistic signs or signifiers never wholly coincide with intended or interpreted meanings.