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Berruto explains what meaning is in language and how it is formed, interpreted, and transmitted. He elaborates on different approaches to semantics, including the relationship between words, concepts, and reality.
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.