Zito, G: Death of Meaning
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362 g
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222x145x13 mm
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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.
Zito argues that as the meanings of language change, relations among persons change, and as these change, so do the meanings of language. What we are witnessing at the end of the twentieth century, though, is the demise of meaning itself.
The ProblemThe Demise of HolidaysApplause! Applause! The Routinization of RitualDefusing DiscourseThe Raping of RapeThe Rise and Fall of the JAPThe Politics of ImagesMaiming MessagesDeath and TaxesControlling InformationThe Competition for DefinitionsThe Death of OedipusIs Society Possible?BibliographyIndex
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