Meaning, Mind and Communication

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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
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• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Cognitive Semiotics Comes of Age (Jordan Zlatev / Göran Sonesson / Piotr Konderak)
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Part I: Meta-theoretical perspectives
• 2. Part II: Semiotic development and evolution
• 3. Part III: Meaning across media, modes and modalities
• 4. Part IV: Language, blends and metaphors
• 5. Concluding remarks
• Part I. Metatheoretical Perspectives
• Chapter 2. Mutual Enlightenment: A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Embodied Simulation Hypothesis (Carlos A. Pérez)
• 1. Introduction: phenomenology and cognitive semiotics
• 2. Phenomenological elucidation and cognitive semiotics
• 2.1. The “embodied simulation hypothesis”
• 2.2. Phenomenology, language and perception in the early Husserl
• 2.3. Meaning and the embodied simulation hypothesis
• 2.4. Time and the dynamics of perception
• 2.5. Language and time
• 3. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 3. A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on the Nature and Limitations of Concepts and Conceptual Frameworks (Joel Parthemore)
• 1. Introduction: From cognitive science to cognitive semiotics
• 2. The emergence of cognitive semiotics
• 3. Concepts and theories of concepts
• 3.1. Concepts: Attempt at a definition
• 3.2. Theories of concepts
• 3.3. The Unified Conceptual Space Theory (UCST)
• 3.4. Knowledge representation
• 4. A cognitive semiotic perspective on concepts
• 5. A cognitive semiotic perspective on concepts: The case of metaphor
• 6. Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 4. Agency in Biosemiotics and Enactivism (Morten Tønnessen)
• 1. Introduction: what is an agent?
• 2. Biosemiotic understanding of agency
• 2.1. Hoffmeyer
• 2.2. Sharov
• 3. Enactive understandings of agency
• 3.1. Gallagher
• 3.2. Thompson
• 4. Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 5. Design Semiotics with an Agentive Approach: An Alternative to Current Semiotic Analysis of Artifacts (Juan Carlos Mendoza Collazos)
• 1. Introduction: the need for a new design semiotics
• 2. What is agentive semiotics?
• 3. Application of the agentive approach to design semiotics
• 3.1. Conditions of agency
• 3.2. Conditions of agential resolution
• 3.3. Conditions of artifacts
• 3.4. Enaction complexity and taxonomy of failures
• 4. Conclusions
• Chapter 6. Towards a Cognitive Semiotics of Science: The Case of Physical Chemistry (Michael May / Karen Skriver / Gert Dandanell)
• 1. Introduction: The theoretical landscape
• 1.1 Situating a cognitive semiotics of science among other approaches
• 1.2. Science and science learning in semiotics
• 1.3. Science and science learning in semiology and functional linguistics
• 1.4. Science and science learning in cognitive science
• 2. Chemical reaction kinetics: a historical introduction
• 2.1. The foundation of chemical kinetics
• 2.2. The role of imagination and language in science: J. van’t Hoff and W. Ostwald
• 3. The different perspectives of kinetics and thermodynamics
• 3.1. Perspectives as indicated on a lexical level
• 3.2. Perspective as grammatical construal: the concept of activation energy barrier
• 4. Conclusion
• Part II. Semiotic Development and Evolution
• Chapter 7. Meaning, Consciousness, and the Onset of Language (Lorraine McCune)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Organization and concepts
• 3. Piaget’s cognitive theory
• 3.1. Meaning without mental representation
• 3.2. Development of representational meaning in play
• 4. Embodying symbols in the vocal medium
• 4.1. From natural meaning to personal symbol: The role of laryngeal vocalization
• 4.2. Phonetic Resources in the transition to language: Vocal Motor Schemes
• 5. Conclusions: From pre-symbolic meaning to referential language
• Appendix
• Chapter 8. The “Symbol Grounding Problem” Reinterpreted from the Perspective of Language Acquisition (Mutsumi Imai)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. How children come to realize that speech sounds are symbols
• 3. Fast mapping of word meanings
• 4. Constructing the lexical systems by combining fast and slow learning
• 5. What cognitive functions make system construction possible?
• 6. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 9. Key Roles of Found Symbolic Objects in Hominin Physical and Cultural Evolution: The Found Symbol Hypothesis (Keith E. Nelson)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Objects with symbolic significance at archaeological sites/layers dating to 200,000 or more years ago
• 3. Brain development, brain sizes, and brain organization
• 3.1. Brain sizes for children, modern primates, and early hominins
• 4. Experimental documentation of symbol learning by young children
• 5. Conclusions and predictions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 10. Mindreading, Mind-travelling and the Proto-discursive Origins of Language (Francesco Ferretti / Ines Adornetti)
• 1. Introduction1
• 2. The primacy of microanalysis and sentence
• 3. From microanalysis to macroanalysis: evidence from the study of pathologies of language
• 4. At the origins of human language
• 4.1. Relevance Theory reconsidered
• 5. Cognitive systems underlying discourse coherence
• 5.1 Temporal navigation
• 5.2. Spatial navigation
• 6. Conclusion
• Chapter 11. From Conversation to Language: An Evolutionary Sensory-Motor Account (Alessandra Chiera)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The sentence-computational approach to language
• 3. Empirical studies of the semantics-pragmatics interface
• 4. The evolution of language in a top-down perspective
• 5. Pragmatic alignment as the key for communicating
• 6. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 12. Protolanguage as Formulaic Communicaction (Serena Nicchiarelli)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Proto-derby: Compositionality or holophrasis?
• 3. A possible pantomimic foundation of protolanguage
• 4. Fossil in action: formulaic language
• 5. The neurolinguistics of formulaic language
• 6. Conclusions
• Part III. Meaning across Media, Modes and Modalities
• Chapter 13. From Mimesis to Meaning: A Systematics of Gestural Mimesis for Concrete and Abstract Referential Gestures (Cornelia Müller)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mimesis and poetics: Aristotle’s systematics of different forms of mimesis
• 3. Forms of mimesis in gestures: The Aristotelian systematics as framework for an embodied mimetic semantics
• 3.1. Media of gestural mimesis
• 3.2. Objects of gestural mimesis
• 3.3. Modes of gestural mimesis: acting and representing as techniques of gesture creation
• 4. Conclusion: Mimesis grounds gestural meaning in experience
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 14. Verbal and Nonverbal Markers of Impolite Behavior in Russian Language and Non-Verbal Code (Grigory Kreydlin / Lidia Khesed)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Methodology
• 3. The category of politeness vs. the category of impoliteness: common and distinctive features
• 4. The basic script of Russian impolite communicative behavior
• 5. The semantics of the Russian words грубый, дерзкий and хамский
• 6. Russian non-verbal signs of impoliteness
• 7. Conclusions
• Chapter 15. Symmetrical Reasoning in Language and Culture: On Ritual Knots and Embodied Cognition (Jamin Pelkey)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Anthropological and semiotic context
• 3. Proposed embodied grounding
• 4. Proposed methodology for cognitive trials
• 5. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 16. Cognitive Semiotics of Mental Disorders, with Focus on Hallucinations (Štěpán Pudlák)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The current status of theories of the semiotics of mental disorders
• 3. The psychiatric perspective
• 4. The cognitive semiotic approach
• 5. The indexicality of hallucinations
• 6. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 17. Pictorial Responses and Projected Realities: On an Elicitation Procedure and its Ramifications (Gisela Bruche-Schulz)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Remembering and meaning
• 2.1. The notion of schema
• 2.2. Line drawings and conceptual ground
• 3. The data
• 4. Provinces of meaning, accents of reality, and response types
• 4.1. Scenes and scenarios: figurative and diagrammatic components
• 4.2. Dutifully obliging or fun and play
• 4.2.1. Singular icons, diagrammatic analogies, and engagement with “reality”
• 4.2.2. Analogies and schematics: Parallelisms between conceptual structures
• 5. Concluding remarks
• The sources of the excerpt
• Chapter 18. Iconic Properties are Lost when Translating Visual Graphics to Text for Accessibility (Peter Coppin / Ambrose Li / Michael Carnevale)
• 1 Introduction
• 2. The graphic-linguistic distinction: Implications for sonic interfaced design
• 2.1. 2D vs sequential
• 2.2. Relation symbols and object symbols
• 2.3. Analogue vs digital
• 2.4. Intrinsic vs extrinsic constraints
• 2.5. Summarizing extensions of the graphic-linguistic distinction into the sonic domain
• 2.6. Recasting the graphic-linguistic distinction in semiotics terms
• 3. A provisional model
• 3.1. Perception-action cycles and predictions
• 3.2. The anatomy of perception-action
• 3.2.1 Pictorial properties of graphics (and comparison to the semiotic notion of iconic)
• 3.2.2. Symbolic properties of graphics
• 3.3. Model extended to sound (and cross-modal representation)
• 3.4. Applying the extended model to the graphic-linguistic distinction
• 3.5. Applying the model to an example design problem
• 4. Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Part IV: Language, blends and metaphors
• Chapter 19. Deonstemic Modals in Legal Discourse: The Cognitive Semiotics of Layered Actions (Todd Oakley)
• 1. Cognitive semiotics and institutional discourse
• 2. Linguistic modality: A tripartite model
• 2.1. Deontic (root) modality
• 2.2. Enunciatory modality
• 2.3. Epistemic modality
• 2.4. Ambiguous cases and the “necessity test”
• 3. Cognitive semiotics and the dynamics of rigid institutions
• 3.1. Rhetorical situations
• 3.2. Layering
• 4. Case study: 33 influential SCOTUS opinions
• 4.1. Deontic must
• 4.2. Enunciatory must
• 4.3. Epistemic must
• 4.4. Deonstemic must
• 4.5. Quantitative analysis of must
• 5. Discourse layers in SCOTUS opinions
• 5.1. Units of analysis in a cognitive ecology
• 5.2. A jurisprudential deontology
• 5.3. SCOTUS: Six Layers of discourse
• 5.4. Back to McCulloch vs. Maryland (1816)
• 6. Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 20. Commutation of Cognitive Source Domains as a Semiotic Tool for Paradigmatic Analysis (Vlado Sušac)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Paradigmatic relations
• 3. Conceptual metaphor theory
• 4. Method and analysis
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter 21. The Emergence of Multimodal Metaphors in Brazilian Political-electoral Debates (Maíra Avelar)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical Background: Metaphor theories and multimodality
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1. Analytical categories
• 3.1.1. Gesture excursion
• 3.1.2. Multimodal metaphoricity in verbal-gestural compounds
• 3.1.3. Compression in speech turns
• 3.2. Material
• 4. Analysis
• 4.1. Dilma’s speech from the 2010 debate (Sequence #1)
• 4.2. Serra’s sequence from the 2010 debate (Sequence #2)
• 4.3. Dilma’s speech from the 2014 debate (Sequence #3)
• 4.4. Aécio’s sequence from the 2014 debate (Sequence #4)
• 5. Discussion and conclusions
• Chapter 22. “A Light in the Darkness”: Making Sense of Spatial and Lightness Perception (Marco Bagli)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical background
• 3. Analysis of the texts
• 3.1. Demian
• 3.2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• 3.3. Blended space
• 3.4. Discussion
• 4. The Implicit Association Test
• 4.1. The in-out / light-dark IAT
• 4.2. Results and discussion
• 5. Summary and conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 23. Performative Metaphor in Cultural Practices (Katherine O’Doherty Jensen)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Performative metaphor
• 3. Food practices
• 4. Gendered food practices
• 5. Accounting for gendered food practices
• 6. Gendered food practices as performative metaphor
• 7. Conclusion: the character of culture and the challenges of cognitive semiotics
• Acknowledgement
• Chapter 24. Objects and Nouns: An Account of the Vision-Language Interface (Francesco-Alessio Ursini)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Ontologies
• 2.1. Ontologies: objects
• 2.2. Ontologies: Noun Phrases
• 3. The infomorphic approach
• 3.1. Core notions
• 3.2. Classification of object types
• 3.3. Classification of NP types
• 3.4. Defining infomorphism
• 4. Three empirical phenomena
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter 25. Linguistic Theory in the Framework of Cognitive Semiotics: The Role of Semio-Syntax (Per Aage Brandt)
• 1. The meaning of grammar
• 2. The semiotic architecture of language
• 3. Grammatical meaning making
• 4. Conclusions: From language to culture
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index: Subject