{"product_id":"the-lightning-flash-language-longing-and-the-facts-of-life-9783631597149","title":"The Lightning Flash: Language, longing and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe don’t say what we mean. We don’t mean what we say. No-one can tell the truth – especially when we stick to the facts.\u003cbr\u003e Language isn’t about words, or information, or things. It’s always about us. As with music and painting, we use language to express what we are not able to say. And we can all do it. We all create our own poetry.\u003cbr\u003e It is not words that we understand, but the myriad meanings of silence that lie beyond them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Bio-systemic basis of human communication – Language as homeostatic adjustment – Denotation as by-product of emotional imperative – Misunderstanding as essential communicative impulse – Translation as resolution of communicative indeterminacy.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48889161613655,"sku":"9783631597149","price":24.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lightning-flash-language-longing-and-the-facts-of-life-9783631597149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}