Semblance and Signification

2011-11-23 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Pascal Michelucci
Release : 2011-11-23
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Semblance and Signification written by Pascal Michelucci. This book was released on 2011-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.

Iconic Investigations

2013-03-28 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Lars Elleström
Release : 2013-03-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Iconic Investigations written by Lars Elleström. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume also contains studies of media types such as music and visual images that are integrated into the overall project to deepen the understanding of iconicity – the creation of meaning by way of similarity relations. Iconicity is a fundamental but relatively unexplored part of signification in language and other media types. During the last decades, the study of iconicity has emerged as a vital research area with far-reaching interdisciplinary scope and the volume should be of interest for students and researchers interested in scholarly fields such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor studies, poetry, intermediality, and multimodality.

Metanoia

2017-11-16 Philosophy

Author : Armen Avanessian
Release : 2017-11-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Metanoia written by Armen Avanessian. This book was released on 2017-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

Dimensions of Iconicity

2017-09-08 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Angelika Zirker
Release : 2017-09-08
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Dimensions of Iconicity written by Angelika Zirker. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.

A Companion to Heidegger

2008-04-15 Philosophy

Author : Hubert L. Dreyfus
Release : 2008-04-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book A Companion to Heidegger written by Hubert L. Dreyfus. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Considers the most important elements of Heidegger’s intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism Provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger’s work One of the few books on Heidegger to cover his later work as well as Being and Time Includes key critical responses to Heidegger’s philosophy Contributors include many of the leading interpreters of, and commentators on, the work of Heidegger

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