Mutual Misunderstanding

by Taylor, Talbot J.

• ISBN13: 9780822312383
• ISBN10: 0822312387
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Mutual Misunderstanding presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patters underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Crice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel, and others.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
To Remedy the Abuse of Words	p. 1
On Addressing Understanding	p. 3
On How We Ought to Understand	p. 27
Communicational Codes	p. 47
On How We Naturally Understand	p. 49
On What Understanding Must Be	p. 71
On Knowing What We Understand	p. 95
Communicational Reasoning	p. 115
On Reaching an Understanding	p. 117
On Understanding What to Do	p. 139
Communicational Practice	p. 155
On Believing We Understand	p. 157
On Acting like We Understand	p. 186
On Doing "Understanding"	p. 201
Denouement	p. 231
On Whether (we Believe) We Understand Each Other	p. 233
References	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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