Herman Parret
Herman Parret is professor emeritus at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Leuven University (Belgium) where he taught philosophy of language and philosophical aesthetics. He has been invited frequently in various foreign universities in France and Italy, in Latin-American countries and in the United States. His publications concern linguistic and philosophical pragmatics, theoretical and visual semiotics, the epistemology of linguistics and of semiotics, philosophical aesthetics and art theory. His interest aims at generating a dialogue between disciplines, always in search of a global and foundational reflection.
5 Publications
The aesthetics of communication
Herman Parret
Springer - Berlin
1993
AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of Chomsky became dissatisfied with autono mous syntax and later with generative semantics: they decided to break away from their mentor.
5 Publications