..". fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those who teach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." International Philosophical Quarterly
This volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.
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..". fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those w...
At the time of his death Hans Hormann, then Professor of Psy chology at the Ruhr University, Bochum, West Germany, was pre paring an English language version of his Eirifilhrung in die Psycholinguistik. The goal of this book, in both the German and English editions, was to present in compact and readily accessi ble form the essentials of his approach to the psychology of lan guage. Basing his work upon the materials treated at length and in depth in two previous comprehensive and more technical works, Psycholinguistics: An Introduction to Research and Theo ry and To Mean-To Understand,...
At the time of his death Hans Hormann, then Professor of Psy chology at the Ruhr University, Bochum, West Germany, was pre paring an English language ...
Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation--the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and...
Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation--the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently la...
Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was one of American philosophy's most distinctive thinkers. Her philosophy was a deep exploration of human life as a continuous process of meaning-making through symbolic forms. Here, Robert E. Innis brings readers closer to Langer's precise and nuanced account of the symbolic mind. Innis shows how Langer's thought spans the sciences, aesthetics, psychology, religion, education, and music, and where it touches on concerns that were brought forward by American pragmatists such as John Dewey and William James. Innis reveals Langer's intense focus on making meaning...
Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was one of American philosophy's most distinctive thinkers. Her philosophy was a deep exploration of human life as a con...
