A Theory of Meaning from the Integrated Information Theory: Resisting against the Deformation of Meaning
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- YANASE Yosuke
- 広島大学
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 意識の統合情報理論からの基礎的意味理論 ―英語教育における意味の矮小化に抗して―
Abstract
<p>The concept of meaning seems to be diminished in recent trends of TEFL in Japan. The diminishment is buttressed by the combination of objectivist semantics, objective tests, neo-liberalism and one-dimensional objectivism. Against the diminishment, this paper offers a new concept of meaning by introducing Integrated Information Theory by Tononi in neuroscience and supplementing it with the theory of meaning by Luhmann in theoretical sociology. In a sharp contract with objectivist semantics that regards meaning as an objectively describable, static, and determinate object, the new concept states that meaning is (1) a subjective experience on an objective physical mechanism; (2) experienced in unification of determinacy of actuality and indeterminacy of potentiality; and (3) a dynamic process. The paper also offers some practical implications.</p>
Journal
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- CASELE Research Bulletin
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CASELE Research Bulletin 48 (0), 53-62, 2018-03-31
The Chugoku Academic Society of English Language Education
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390845713059951872
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- NII Article ID
- 130007630332
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- ISSN
- 21898103
- 03851192
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
- KAKEN
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- Abstract License Flag
- Allowed