Meaning, Mind and Communication: Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

ISBN-13: 9783631657041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 482 str.

Jordan Zlatev;Goran Sonesson;Piotr Konderak

Opis

This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics - the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics - from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters deal with the interaction between language and other semiotic resources, the role of consciousness and concepts, the nature of metaphor, the specificity of human evolution and development, the relation between cognitive semiotics and related fields, and other central topics. They are grouped in four sections: (i) Meta-theoretical perspectives, (ii) Semiotic development and evolution, (iii) Meaning across media, modes and modalities, (iv) Language, blends and metaphors.

Spis treści

phenomenology - concepts - agency - design - semiotics of science - onset of language - symbol grounding - found symbols - mindreading - evolution - protolanguage - mimesis - gestures - impoliteness - symmetrical reasoning - pictorial responses - visual graphics - legal discourse - metaphor - multimodality - vision-language interface - grammar

O autorze

Jordan Zlatev, Professor in Linguistics at Lund University, investigates language in relation to mind and meaning-making.

Göran Sonesson, Professor in Semiotics at Lund University focuses on pictorial and cultural semiotics.

Piotr Konderak, Assistant Professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, works in the philosophy of mind.