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Paradigms of Reading

Relevance Theory and Deconstruction

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Pragmatic Banality and Honourable Bigotry

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 1-15

  3. Relevance Theory and Spoken Communication

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 16-28

  4. ‘Positive Hermeneutics’: Relevance and Communication

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 29-46

  5. ‘Negative Hermeneutics’: Themes, Figures, Codes and Cognition

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 47-61

  6. Words, Concepts and Tropes

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 62-83

  7. Rhetoric as an Insurmountable Obstacle

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 84-106

  8. Words and the World: The Problem of Reference

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 107-130

  9. Mechanical Performatives

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 131-151

  10. The Madness of Words and the Enunciating Subject

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 152-175

  11. When Lucy ceas’d to be

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 176-195

  12. Relevance and Rhetoric

    • Ian MacKenzie
    Pages 196-198

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 199-237
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About this book

Linguistic signs do not coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. For Paul de Man, on the contrary, it suggested that language is unstable, random, arbitrary, mechanical, ironic and inhuman. This book seeks to show that relevance theory is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and literary interpretation than the deconstructionist theory de Man elaborated from readings of Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche.

About the author

IAN MACKENZIE is an English language teacher, teacher trainer and coursebook writer and the author of numerous articles on linguistics and literary theory. He teaches at the Haute Ecole de Gestion, Lausanne.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Paradigms of Reading

  • Book Subtitle: Relevance Theory and Deconstruction

  • Authors: Ian MacKenzie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503984

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96833-8Published: 06 September 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42841-0Published: 01 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50398-4Published: 06 September 2002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 237

  • Topics: Literary History, Linguistics, general, Literary Theory

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