Cognitive semiotics : signs, mind and meaning

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Cognitive semiotics : signs, mind and meaning

Per Aage Brandt

(Bloomsbury advances in semiotics)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Interrogating the relatively new field of cognitive semiotics, this book explores shared issues in cognitive science and semiotics. Building on research from recent decades, Per Aage Brandt investigates the potential of a cognitive semiotic approach to enhance our understanding of language, thought and semiosis in general. Introducing a critical, non-standard approach both to cognitive science and to semiotics, this book discusses the understanding of meaning and mind through four major dimensions; mental architecture, mental spaces, discourse coherence and eco-organization. Encompassing a rich variety of topics and debates, Cognitive Semiotics outlines several bridges between 'continental' and 'analytic' thinking in the study of semantics, pragmatics, discourse and the philosophy of language and mind.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. On the Mind of the Body. Spinoza, Descartes, and the Philosophy of Cognition 3. The Architecture of the Embodied Mind 4. On Consciousness and Semiosis 5. The Dia-logic of Discourse 6. Mental Spaces and Discourse 7. More on Mental Architecture, Spaces, and Blending 8. Blending in the Poetics of Songs. Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah 9. Forces and Spaces. Maupassant, Borges, Hemingway 10. The Meaning of Translation 11. Elements in Poetic Imagination 12. Words in Language and Thought 13. Numbers are Things in Time 14. The Meaning and Madness of Money 15. Postscript Bibliography Index

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  • NCID
    BC02881212
  • ISBN
    • 9781350143302
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 241 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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