Borders and Language: Hermeneutic-Philosophical Issues
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Giuliana Gregorio
Abstract
This contribution explores the concept of ‘border’ in relation to language and linguisticality from a hermeneutic-philosophical perspective. Starting from the reflections expressed by Hans-Georg Gadamer in an emblematic essay of 1985, Grenzen der Sprache, and in other later writings, the theme will be analysed through a threefold articulation, focusing respectively on: 1) the borders of language (the relationship between language and understanding, communication between human beings and animals, the pre-linguistic, paralinguistic and supralinguistic dimensions, children and language learning, language and poetry); 2) the borders in language (the split between said and unsaid, the quest for the ‘right word’, the relationship between logos endiathetos and logos prophorikos); 3) the borders between languages (the problem of translation).
Abstract
This contribution explores the concept of ‘border’ in relation to language and linguisticality from a hermeneutic-philosophical perspective. Starting from the reflections expressed by Hans-Georg Gadamer in an emblematic essay of 1985, Grenzen der Sprache, and in other later writings, the theme will be analysed through a threefold articulation, focusing respectively on: 1) the borders of language (the relationship between language and understanding, communication between human beings and animals, the pre-linguistic, paralinguistic and supralinguistic dimensions, children and language learning, language and poetry); 2) the borders in language (the split between said and unsaid, the quest for the ‘right word’, the relationship between logos endiathetos and logos prophorikos); 3) the borders between languages (the problem of translation).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
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Part I
- Borders as Translation Spaces 1
- Border Narratives: Crossing Lines and Telling Tales 9
- Geophilosophy of the Border: Beyond Immunitarian Politics 21
- Borders and Neo-Nationalism: A Geophilosophical Approach 37
- We Fight for this Land 51
- Converting the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Infinite in the Act of Difference 63
- Liminal Places and Non-Places 77
- Border Brushstrokes: The Ulster Arts Club and the Post-Partition Nation 91
- Bordering as the Breaking Force of Border Subjects 101
- Frontiers of Sexual Difference: The Phantasm of Gender 115
- Borders and Language: Hermeneutic-Philosophical Issues 129
- ‘Thou wenest Ich be a beggere’: Borders and the Habitus in Middle English Romance 145
- Funes the Arboreous: Borderless Ecologies in Borges’s Ficciones 157
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Part II
- Borders and Barbed Wire: Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from the Argenta Prison Ship 171
- A Residue of Boundary Correspondence 183
- Two Years on an Ulster Prison Ship 189
- Contributors and Editors 307
- Index 311
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
-
Part I
- Borders as Translation Spaces 1
- Border Narratives: Crossing Lines and Telling Tales 9
- Geophilosophy of the Border: Beyond Immunitarian Politics 21
- Borders and Neo-Nationalism: A Geophilosophical Approach 37
- We Fight for this Land 51
- Converting the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Infinite in the Act of Difference 63
- Liminal Places and Non-Places 77
- Border Brushstrokes: The Ulster Arts Club and the Post-Partition Nation 91
- Bordering as the Breaking Force of Border Subjects 101
- Frontiers of Sexual Difference: The Phantasm of Gender 115
- Borders and Language: Hermeneutic-Philosophical Issues 129
- ‘Thou wenest Ich be a beggere’: Borders and the Habitus in Middle English Romance 145
- Funes the Arboreous: Borderless Ecologies in Borges’s Ficciones 157
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Part II
- Borders and Barbed Wire: Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from the Argenta Prison Ship 171
- A Residue of Boundary Correspondence 183
- Two Years on an Ulster Prison Ship 189
- Contributors and Editors 307
- Index 311
