Friday, February 5, 2010

question of the day?

this question crossed my mind this morning as i was perusing real estate listings.
'does language have meaning or does meaning have language?'
let your mind play with that one a bit, and maybe post what you come up with.

3 comments:

Amy said...

I don't think all language has meaning or that all meaning has language.

Zach said...

hmmm... signs without signifiers and signification without signs. an interesting concept to be sure.

Russ said...

"Does language have meaning or does meaning have language?" Clearly language has meaning at some level and in some way. Even a simple "ga, ga" communicates something very meaningful and profound. Meaning is most definitely expressed in some form of language. The bigger issue is "what is meant by the word "have" in the question?"