Repeatedly, scholars have demanded that language, due to its materiality and performativity, be understood as a medium. Along these lines, this book provides a systematic foundation of a media theory of communication, which envisions language as cultural practice of understanding. From this, a new, linguistically oriented way of cultural studies originates, which revolves around questions of aesthetics, diversity and cultural memory.

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Thomas Metten, University of Koblenz, Germany.