Cognitive Semiotics: Signs, Mind, and Meaning

✍ Scribed by Per Aage Brandt

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
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 B
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
Index