A Review of: Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse, by Kevin J. Porter: West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006. x + 411 pp.

Stephen R. Yarbrough

doi:10.1080/02773940903466488

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Mar 2010

A Review of: Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse, by Kevin J. Porter: West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006. x + 411 pp.

Stephen R. Yarbrough University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Kevin Porter's Meaning, Language, and Time is a fine contribution to scholarship, well worth reading, for a number of reasons. It is well worth reading if only because in the fields of rhetoric, communication, and composition, books that explore fundamental concepts and premises—particularly books that put such concepts and premises into historical perspective and into relationships with alternative theories—have become far too rare. But Porter's book is also well worth reading because the concept it explores is arguably the one most fundamental to rhetoric, communication, and composition—the concept of “meaning.”

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 2010-03-26
DOI: 10.1080/02773940903466488
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