>Steve Turtell wrote: >This inclusiveness seems only bare-bones common sense to me given the >endless reiteration this century of the Saussurian gap between the >signifier and the signified. ALL words (or symbols, or signs, etc) >are, ultimately, metaphors. Good point with Saussure, but of equal worth to mention in re lang. & symbol: Pierce, Jung, Levi-Strauss, Campbell, Kristeva, and Chomsky. Also, in reference to the very enticing "all languages poetic" idea, might we go two steps further and declare a state of Panpoesis or Omnipoesis--to say, There is poetry in every -one, -thing, -where? Robert J. Tiess NY, USA [end of message ... text also available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=3086704&hilit=CHOMSKY> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&3078521 Score: 78 Subject: Qana Massacre - COME Press Release