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100	1		_aMelrose, Robin, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Margins of Meaning : _bArguments for a Postmodern Approach to Language & Text / _cRobin Melrose.
246	3		_aArguments for a Postmodern Approach to Language & Text
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c1996.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCosterus New Series ; _v109
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Chapter 1: The Triumph of Technology, or What Speaks When I Speak -- Chapter 2: Potentiality and Relativity, or Meaning is in the I/Eye of the Beholder -- Chapter 3: Analysing Indeterminacy: the Search for a Quantum Theory of Language -- Chapter 4: A Postmodern Approach to Language and Text: Language as Socio-Neural Semiotic -- Chapter 5: Discourse as Poaching: the Case for a Postmodern Approach to Language and Text -- Bibliography.
520			_aThe title of this book is inspired by Jacques Derrida and by his seminal work, The Margins of Philosophy . The study of meaning in the past thirty years has focused on core meaning, and largely ignored the margins of meaning, where much of the power of language is to be found. The present work seeks to shift this focus by taking a postmodern approach that sees meaning as an accretion of verbal, social, cultural and personal sign systems, with fluid boundaries that shrink or expand with each meaner . Chapter 1 begins with a brief examination of present-day approaches to meaning, and goes on to a deconstruction of four twentieth century linguists. Chapter 2 takes as its starting point two aspects of the 20th century scientific paradigm, non-deterministic causation and relativity, and considers a number of thinkers who have worked within this paradigm. A major aim of this work is to convince students and teachers of literary theory, cultural studies and feminist theory of the validity of a linguistics of indeterminacy , so Chapter 3 focuses on an analytical approach that models indeterminacy in language, and Chapter 4 applies the model to a newspaper editorial, a Wallace Stevens' poem, and an extract from a Patrick White novel.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aDeconstruction.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis.
650		0	_aLanguage and languages _xPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Margins of Meaning : Arguments for a Postmodern Approach to Language & Text. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 1996 _z9789051837049
830		0	_aCosterus New Series ; _v109.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004454934
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