Paradigms of Reading: Relevance Theory and Deconstruction

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.

Author: I. MacKenzie, Ian MacKenzie
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/06/2002
Pages: 237
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.08w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780333968338

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.

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