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Craig,
The scriptures were sacred texts for Augustine. Yet your use of the
words "for his time" and " we also no longer" excludes those who still
consider the Scriptures to be sacred texts.
Nonetheless, I concur that much of critical theory seems to privilege
a sign's relationship to a range of other signs to determine the value
of that single sign over the study of the rules for the formation of
grammatical sentences in a language.
Diane
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Craig Hancock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Diane,
For Augustine and for his time, the scriptures were sacred texts. We also
no longer know how to value one text over another. It should be pointed out,
too, that this critical theory tradition seems to have pulled us further
away from syntax. For all the interest in theories about language, there
seems to be little interest in the forms it takes.
Craig
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