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Dire et vouloir dire dans les arts du langage anciens et tardo-antiques

Saying and Meaning in Ancient and Late Ancient Arts of Language
Edited by Leone Gazziero

“What is language and what is it used for?”

“What is a linguistic sign and what does its signification / meaning consist in?”

“What are the effects that linguistic expressions produce, the constraints that must be respected in their regard, and the precautions that must be taken when using them?”

This complex of questions, whose origin can be traced back to a certain number of texts from Antiquity, has oriented ever since the fundamental issues for reflecting on the nature and meaning of linguistic expressions, and on the actual conditions of their use. In the course of philosophical, literary, and other genres of debate, this understanding of language has developed in a variety of ways of grasping—for a given linguistic expression or sequence of linguistic expressions—what “to signify / to mean” actually means.

The contributions in this thematic issue focus on linguistic ideas that authors of Greek language and culture developed (having been confronted, more or less explicitly, with the question “how to think about language?”) in order to account for the complex phenomenon of signification / meaning as a property of linguistic signs, or as a correlate to thought content, or even as the product of a regulated practice of exchanges.

Leone Gazziero

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