Michel Meyer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michel Meyer is involved.

Titles

From Logic to Rhetoric: Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982

Michel Meyer

What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.

Meaning and Reading: A philosophical essay on language and literature

Michel Meyer

According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:3] 1983. ix, 176 pp.