In:The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 7] 2017
► pp. 193–196
Index
Published online: 26 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.index
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.index
A
- abstract objects 24, 38, 137–139, 167–168 ; see also cryptomental abstractions; cryptophysical abstractions
- aesthetic objects27n9
- agency, human 144–145
- analytic aesthetics 113, 159, 170
- Anderson, Charles 81–82, 99
- Antos, G.106
- Ariel, Mira 142n6, 143
- Attridge, Derek 79n4, 136, 154–156, 162n3
- Austin, John 101, 105
- Bach, Kent 99, 105, 106, 108
- Baker, Anne 97, 100
- Barry, Peter 135, 136, 151
- Beardsley, Monroe
47, 77, 114–117, 121, 124
- and the New Criticism133
- Belinda
- asking Karen a question46
- saying “Good morning” to Alan 32–33, 50, 53–54, 142–143, 144
- sending a Christmas card to Frank33
- Belsey, Catherine 135, 136, 144, 145, 156–157
- Bennett, Paula 81, 83, 84
- Birner, Betty 94, 101, 102, 106–107, 108
- book, the concept of a 19–21, 173
- brute existence 24, 28, 169
- Bublitz, Wolfram 101, 102n3
- Calligrammes (Apollinaire) 42, 70
- Cameron, Ross 26, 28–29, 169n10
- Cameron, Sharon74
- Candide (Voltaire)Damrosch, David
- Carter, Ronald106
- Castle, Gregory 152–153
- Chafe, Wallace101
- Chaudhuri, Sukanta 33–34, 37, 65, 99
-
Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales (Falco and associates)
5, 66–70
- receiver’s meaning of
69–70
- sender’s meaning of 68–69
- receiver’s meaning of
69–70
- Ciardi, John 83, 85n7
- cluster conception of texts, the
3, 12–13, 87–88, 162, 173–174
- its advantages over the ordinary conception 3, 22
- and change163
- its disadvantages when compared with the ordinary conception 3, 15, 16, 174
- and ontology 25–26
- Collins, Philip21
- communication model, the 3, 12–13
- complexes of signs 3, 25, 39–42, 161–162
- conceptual analysis 121, 123
- conceptual objectivism
25, 43, 44, 51, 99
- in Rudner28
- in Tarski169
- in Wetzel173
- conceptual relativity
24–25, 43–44, 51, 179
- Saussure’s conception of
150, 151
- Searle’s analysis of 24–25
- Saussure’s conception of
150, 151
- conduit metaphor, thesee also minor framework, the, of the conduit metaphorReddy, Michael
- context and its role for meaning 48, 78n3, 102, 133, 134, 142–143
- conventionalism about meaning 47–48, 86–87, 114–117, 125, 133, 182
- copying 31–32, 39
- Corral, Will133
- Cruse, Alan
- on facets
19–21, 160, 168n9, 173
- on meaning97
- on paralinguistic and non-linguistic signs32
- on sentences and the expressing of propositions139
- on ungrammaticality72
- on utterance meaning94
- on facets
19–21, 160, 168n9, 173
- cryptomental abstractions 36, 38, 55, 166–167
- cryptophysical abstractions38
- Culler, Jonathan
- on context and indeterminacy 142, 143
- on human autonomy144
- on the language system and the use of language140
- on linguistic expressions as agents139
- on literary conventions 87, 133
- on textual meaning136
- Currie, Gregory 79n4
- Damrosch, David 14–15, 44, 139
- Dancygier, Barbara106
- David Copperfield (Dickens) 20–21
- Davies, David
118, 121, 131, 170–171
- on texts 161, 163, 164
- Davies, Stephen 167, 174–175
- Daylight, Russell 140n3
- Derrida, Jacques
133, 134
- on the animation of signs 107, 140n5
- on communication
152–153
- on the iterability of signs 145–149
- on marks producing meaning140
- and Saussure150
- on singular and original utterances 32n2
- on speech-act theory 104n6, 149
- on thinking and reality 136, 137n2, 147
- “Dickinson 591”
5, 11–12, 34–35, 41, 70
- facsimile of manuscript of 35 fig. 5
- receiver’s meaning of 76–77
- sender’s meaning of 71–76
- text rendered11
- theme of 80–82
- Dickinson, Emily“Dickinson 591”
- Dickinson Bianchi, Martha41
- difference 150–152
- Dufrenne, Mikel155
- Düwel, Klaus 5, 36
- Eddins, Dwight133
- Effingham, Nikk169
- “1887” (Housman) 116–117
- eliminativism concerning texts 26, 159, 168, 171–172
- Enfield, N.J. 43, 103
- existencebrute existence; mentally constructed existence
- facets20
- Falco, Edward66see also Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales [Falco and associates])
- form 49n6
- Franklin, R.W. 11, 34, 41
- Frawley, William106
- Friedrich, Gerhard 81, 83, 84–85
- Fromkin, Victoria 100
- Gaskin, Richard 47, 79n4, 106
- Gebühr, Michael 5, 36
- Goodman, Nelson34
- Greetham, D.C. 33, 65
- Greimas, Algirdas Julien133
- Grice, Paul 31, 50–51, 101
- Griffith, Clarke 82n6
- Habegger, Alfred41
- Hale, Bob 38n4, 169
- Hansson, Gunnar 47n3, 63n4, 76
- Harnish, Robert 99, 105, 106, 108
- Harris, Roy 6, 46–47, 103n5, 181–182
- Hengeveld, Kees 97, 100
- Hirsch, E.D. 117–119, 120, 121, 124
- Holland, Norman 76, 79
- Housman, A.E.116
- Hyams, Nina 100
- idea that language creates meaning, the 93, 133, 134, 137–141
- idea that all meaning in connection with language is something abstract, the 93, 96–99
- idea that physical utterances are also linguistic expressions, the 93, 107–110
- idea that texts are single unitary objects, therealism concerning texts
- idea that textual meaning is indeterminate, the 93, 117, 133–134, 134–136
- idea that there are truths about what texts mean, the 93 113, 126–130
- idea that utterance meaning is sender’s meaning, the 93, 94–95
- intentionalism about meaning 77–78, 117–119, 121–123
- interpretation theory
56, 86, 113
- analytic-aesthetic
130–132
- constructionist 126, 131–132
- as a normative enterprise 114–115, 118–119, 120, 122–123
- analytic-aesthetic
130–132
- Iseminger, Gary121
- Iser, Wolfgang 88–89, 183
- Jakobson, Roman 79n4
- “Japan Quake Victims ‘Tour’ Damaged Homes Via Google” (Soble)
5, 59–66, 70
- facsimile of61 fig. 8
- receiver’s meaning of
63–65
- sender’s meaning of 62–63
- text rendered 59–60
- Johnson, Barbara133
- Johnson, Thomas 11n1, 41
- Jucker, Andreas 101
- Katz, Jerrold101
- Kramer, Susanne79
- language
- as an abstraction137
- and brute existence141
- according to Saussure 100, 150
- system, the 100, 140–141
- Lanser, Susan 71n1
- Levinson, Jerrold
124, 130
- on complexes of signs161
- on interpretation 121–123, 131
- on texts
161, 165–167
- on truth about textual meaning 127–129
- on complexes of signs161
- Lewis, David 103n4
- linguistics, standard
100, 103–105, 111
- and other types of linguistics106
- Livingston, Paisley
- on the history of the ontology of art 26, 159, 164, 171
- on Levinson’s theory of interpretation 122n5
- on truth about textual meaning 129–130
- loose truths 128–129, 143
- Louwerse, Max104
- Lycan, William 37, 97–98, 99, 120
- Lyons, John 31
- Mag Uidhir, Christy 38n4, 162n3, 167n8
- Malmkjær, Kirsten106
- marksphysical marks or sounds vs. non-physical signs
- Mayr, Ernst174
- McGregor, William102
- meaning in language 4, 12–13, 65, 99–100, 105 ; see also textual meaning
- Meldorf fibula 5, 36–37
- mentally constructed existence 24, 28, 169
- minor framework, the, of the conduit metaphor 17–18, 154
- Moati, Raoul 140n5
- New Criticism133
- Newmeyer, Frederick100
- Norrick, Neal 101, 102n3
- Nöth, Winfried 94, 95
- Odenstedt, Bengt36
- ontology 23–24, 137, 138
- ordinary conception of texts, the
1–3, 12–16, 21, 56–57, 164
- its eliminability
174–177
- the illocigal character of14
- its intellectual consequences
2, 48, 110–111, 130–131, 147, 183–184
- as marking a problem area180
- and ontology 25–26
- practical advantages of 14–16, 22, 23, 174
- and Reddy’s conduit metaphor18
- its eliminability
174–177
- Pamuk, OrhanDamrosch, David
- Patai, Daphne133
- van Peer, W. 104, 106
- Peregrin, Jaroslav 97, 98, 120
- Pette, Corinna 76, 79
- phenomenological fallacy, the 89, 156
- physical exemplars 2–3, 25, 32, 34, 42
- physical marks or sounds vs. non-physical signs 1–2, 19, 34–37, 110–111 ; see also idea that physical utterances are also linguistic expressions, the
- physical utterances 31–33, 60 ; see also idea that physical utterances are also linguistic expressions, the
- Pinto, Mary66
- poststructuralism 134, 141, 144–145
- pragmatics 101–102
- Quine, Willard Van Orman 103n4
- Radloff, Bernhard 152n16, 153n19
- Radway, Janice79
- Ransom, John Crowe 80, 82–83
- realism concerning texts 26, 93, 159–162, 163, 168–171
- Reddy, Michael 6, 17–19, 51n8, 102, 168n9, 180
- representations49
- Richards, I.A.76
- Rodman, Robert100
- Rosenblatt, Louise 75, 76–77, 155
- Rudner, Richard 6, 26–28, 171–172, 174–175, 181
- Saussure, Ferdinand de 36n3, 100, 139n3, 150–152
- Searle, John
6,
- on brute and institutional facts
24, 181
- on conceptual relativity 24–25
- on Derrida 147n10
- on the duality of physical utterances 107–108
- on speech acts 50–51, 101, 104
- on brute and institutional facts
24, 181
- sentences
- and the expressing of propositions 101, 139
- as opposed to utterances 101, 176
- Shusterman, Richard 48n5, 131–132, 155
- signs
35–36
see also complexes of signs; physical marks or sounds vs. non-physical signs
- linguistic
35–36, 38
- non-linguistic 32–33, 40n6
- paralinguistic 32–33, 40n6
- Saussurean notion of 36n3, 150
- linguistic
35–36, 38
- Soames, Scott139
- Soble, Jonathan“Japan Quake Victims ‘Tour’ Damaged Homes Via Google” (Soble)
- soundsphysical marks or sounds vs. non-physical signs
- speaker meaning94
- Stauffer-Norris, Will66
- Stecker, Robert 47n4, 124–127, 130, 131, 148, 161
- Steinhauser, Paul16
- Strawson, P.F. 103n4
- structuralism133
- text
- as an abstract object
163–164
- analytic-aesthetic conception of 131n8, 160–161
- as conceived by standard linguistics 106–107
- as conceived by standard literary theory 152–155
- as a created object 165–167
- defined 1, 31n1
- as an elusive object 88–90
- the term
3–4, 33, 106
- as a type161
- as a unitary object 3, 13–14, 26
- as a verbal structure161
- as an abstract object
163–164
- textual criticism 33–34, 39, 42
- textual meaning
3, 4, 45, 53–54
- commentator’s 54–56, 85–87, 96
- as conceived by standard linguistics 94–96, 183
- as conceived by standard literary theory 134–136, 156–157
- consensus 48, 95, 182, 182–183
- and material aspects of a physical exemplar 33–34
- objective 4, 46, 48, 55, 85–86, 182–183
- not possible to capture in words 69–70
- receiver’s 4, 45, 46–47, 52–53, 54
- receiver’s, in literary contexts 77–80
- sender’s 4, 45, 46, 49–52, 54
- Thagard, Paul 24n6, 170n11
- Todd, Mabel Loomis 41, 80
- Tolhurst, William 119–121, 124
- types and tokens 108–109, 163–164, 167
- utterance meaning 94, 101–102
- utterances 1–2, 52, 127, 106–107, 180–181 ; see also physical utterances
- Vendler, Helen
- on “Dickinson 591” 72, 73, 74, 75, 81, 83–84
- on Dickinson’s orthography 41
- Walters, Lee 165, 175–176
- Weisbuch, Robert 81, 82n6
- Wetzel, Linda 109, 169, 171–174
- Wimsatt, William 77, 114, 117, 133
- Wolff, Cynthia Griffin81
- Wolterstorff, Nicholas 161, 167–168
- Yukman, Claudia82
- Yule, George101
