Download or read book The Silent Word - Textual Meaning And The Unwritten written by Ban Kah Choon and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on “Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'”, held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.