Language and beyond: actuality and virtuality in the relations between word, image and sound

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Paul Joret, Aline Remael
Rodopi, 1998 - Art - 498 pages
The title of this book, Language and Beyond, suggests a dynamic relationship between two poles in which language is confronted with an otherness that is apparently fundamental to it, and towards which it is seen to be reaching. But what is the beyond of language? Is it an object or an image? Do images, visual or aural, actually constitute a beyond of language? The interdependence of words might appear to perpetuate an absence instead, and yet signs can also be seen to establish a presence by their very materiality. The articles in this collection investigate and therefore postulate some form of dialogue between word and image, but they also test semiotic borders, examining the various shades of the interdependence, conflict or dominance, and the orientation of the relationship.

Ce livre s'adresse aux spécialistes, chercheurs et étudiants, ainsi qu'à un public plus large, aux lecteurs ouverts aux théories, méthodes et pratiques de la recherche interdisciplinaire. Son titre suggère un rapport dynamique entre le langage et ses au-delàs: une bipolarité tour à tour assumée et transgressée, voire intériorisée. Mais quels sont ces au-delàs? Et comment les objets, images, sons ou représentations mentales sont-ils investis ou réinvestis par le langage? Dès lors que la nature séquentielle de ce dernier semble souligner le caractère dérivé et marginal de ses au-delàs, il suffit au contraire de la matérialité même des signes, pour les projeter au coeur de l'expression verbale.
Les articles de ce recueil postulent un dialogue entre le mot et l'image, mais scrutent également les confins des systèmes de signes, les modes et degrés de leurs interdépendances et de leurs oppositions.

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Contents

Maruška Švašek
37
AnneMarie Christin
59
Nadia StangéZhirovova
83
Giselle de
97
Archibald L H M van Wieringen
123
Word and image in a group of seventeenthcentury protestant prints
141
Terry Royce
157
Helga KohrsKegel
177
Bernard Vouilloux
255
Philiep Bossier
271
Paul Joret
287
Jeremy Thurlow
309
Àron Kibédi Varga
341
Lieven Dhulst
383
Peter Janssens
415
Bernard Bosredon
449

Aline Remael
203
Yves Gambier
219
Walter Weyns
241
Four songs Quatre chants by par Jeremy Thurlow
465
Index
485
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