Language and Meaning in the Renaissance

Richard Waswo

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Language and Meaning in the Renaissance

Richard Waswo

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Published/Copyright: 1987

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Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning.

Originally published in 1987.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Languages of Asia Semitic Languages Semitic Languages, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
PART I. NOTIONS OF MEANING: THEORY AND HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. From Referential to Relational Semantics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
2. The Renaissance Semantic Shift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
PART II. ARGUMENTS ABOUT WORDS
3. The Challenge from Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
4. The Challenge from Vernaculars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
PART III. ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE WORD
5. The Challenge from Eloquence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
6. The Augustinian Reaction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
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Literature; Rhetoric; Usage; Semantics; Theory; Philosophy; Poetry; Thought; Grammar; Allegory; Metaphor; Awareness; Eloquence; Renaissance philosophy; Linguistics; Renaissance humanism; Semantic change; Renaissance literature; Scholasticism; Polemic; Petrarch; Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Lorenzo Valla; Bembo; Theology; Performative utterance; Contextualism; Philosophy of language; Trivium; Modistae; Medieval Latin; Philosopher; Vocabulary; Ontology; Literary theory; Criticism; Dialectician; De Inventione; Quintilian; Critical philosophy; Nominalism; Sophistication; Philology; Epistemology; Sprezzatura; Art for art's sake; Linguistic system; Theory of Forms; Treatise; High Renaissance; Linguistic prescription; Explanation; Eclecticism; Presupposition; Classical Latin; The Advancement of Learning; The Realist; Explanatory power; Consciousness; Essay; Empiricism; The Philosopher; Exegesis; Protestantism; Linguistic description; Utilitarianism; Metonymy; Figure of speech; Analogy

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