Language and Beyond / Le langage et ses au-dela : Actuality and Virtuality in the Relations between Word, Image and Sound / Actualite et virtualite dans les rapports entre le verbe, l'image et le son

The title of this book, Language and Beyond, suggests a dynamic relationship between two poles in which language is confronted with an otherness that is apparently fundamental to it, and towards which it is seen to be reaching.

But what is the beyond of language? Is it an object or an image? Do images, visual or aural, actually constitute a beyond of language?

The interdependence of words might appear to perpetuate an absence instead, and yet signs can also be seen to establish a presence by their very materiality.

The articles in this collection investigate and therefore postulate some form of dialogue between word and image, but they also test semiotic borders, examining the various shades of the interdependence, conflict or dominance, and the orientation of the relationship. Ce livre s'adresse aux specialistes, chercheurs et etudiants, ainsi qu'a un public plus large, aux lecteurs ouverts aux theories, methodes et pratiques de la recherche interdisciplinaire.

Son titre suggere un rapport dynamique entre le langage et ses au-delas: une bipolarite tour a tour assumee et transgressee, voire interiorisee.

Mais quels sont ces au-delas? Et comment les objets, images, sons ou representations mentales sont-ils investis ou reinvestis par le langage?

Des lors que la nature sequentielle de ce dernier semble souligner le caractere derive et marginal de ses au-delas, il suffit au contraire de la materialite meme des signes, pour les projeter au coeur de l'expression verbale. Les articles de ce recueil postulent un dialogue entre le mot et l'image, mais scrutent egalement les confins des systemes de signes, les modes et degres de leurs interdependances et de leurs oppositions.