Seargeant, Philip
(2009).
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Abstract
Ideas about language are a major theme in many of the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, and the way in which language is conceptualized within his fiction plays an important role in the philosophical speculations of his narratives. Analyzing both the implicit linguistic assumptions upon which certain narratives are built, as well as the metalinguistic explication of imaginary languages that occur in these stories, this article examines the ways in which Borges’s philosophy of language contributes to his representation of the paradoxical nature of human experience.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009, The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| ISSN: | 0190-0013 |
| Keywords: | Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 ; Language and languages ; Philosophy. |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) Language & Literacies |
| Item ID: | 18015 |
| Depositing User: | Philip Seargeant |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2009 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:31 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18015 |
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