Interpretive Acts: In Search of Meaning
Harris, Wendell V.![Interpretive Acts: In Search of Meaning](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22687342/CHSBZCOP0322687342.jpg)
Over the last twenty years, the humanities and social sciences have become peculiarly preoccupied with the limitations of language--especially what language cannot do. Rather than ask whether communication is possible, this study explores how it occurs. Drawing on a variety of fields that have contributed to literary theory--including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, and rhetorical theory--Harris defines the goal o...