The Death of Meaning

George V. Zito (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

1993
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-94674-6 (ISBN)

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Zito argues that although meanings change with time, at the end of the 20th century we are witnessing not a change in meanings, but the demise of meaning itself. He presents evidence of the ever decreasing use of word language, upon which meaning is predicated, and the increase in iconographic impacts (Macintosh and television, for example); the routinization of ritual; the efforts to control information (as during the Gulf War); and the ideological competition among groups to dominate definitions of social situations by the use of oversimplified rhetorics. Zito pays particular attention to language, employing empirical data with classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives to argue that as the meanings of language change, the relations among persons change, and vice versa. Recommended for scholars of sociology and language.

GEORGE V. ZITO is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University./e He is the author of seven books, including Systems of Discourse (Greenwood, 1984) and The Sociology of Shakespeare (1991).

The Problem The Demise of Holidays Applause! Applause! The Routinization of Ritual Defusing Discourse The Raping of Rape The Rise and Fall of the JAP The Politics of Images Maiming Messages Death and Taxes Controlling Information The Competition for Definitions The Death of Oedipus Is Society Possible? Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.9.1993
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-275-94674-6 / 0275946746
ISBN-13	978-0-275-94674-6 / 9780275946746
Zustand	Neuware