Meaning, Mind and Communication: Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

✍ Scribed by Jordan Zlatev (editor), Göran Sonesson (editor), Piotr Konderak (editor)

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 484
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics – the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics – from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters deal with the interaction between language and other semiotic resources, the role of consciousness and concepts, the nature of metaphor, the specificity of human evolution and development, the relation between cognitive semiotics and related fields, and other central topics. They are grouped in four sections: (i) Meta-theoretical perspectives, (ii) Semiotic development and evolution, (iii) Meaning across media, modes and modalities, (iv) Language, blends and metaphors.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Cognitive Semiotics Comes of Age • Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson & Piotr Konderak
Part I. Metatheoretical Perspectives
2. Mutual Enlightenment: A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Embodied Simulation Hypothesis • Carlos A. Pérez
3. A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on the Nature and Limitations of Concepts and Conceptual Frameworks • Joel Parthemore
4. Agency in Biosemiotics and Enactivism • Morten Tønnessen
5. Design Semiotics with an Agentive Approach: An Alternative to Current Semiotic Analysis of Artifacts • Juan Carlos Mendoza Collazos
6. Towards a Cognitive Semiotics of Science: The Case of Physical Chemistry • Michael May, Karen Skriver & Gert Dandanell
Part II. Semiotic Development and Evolution
7. Meaning, Consciousness, and the Onset of Language • Lorraine McCune
8. The “Symbol Grounding Problem” Reinterpreted from the Perspective of Language Acquisition • Mutsumi Imai
9. Key Roles of Found Symbolic Objects in Hominin Physical and Cultural Evolution: The Found Symbol Hypothesis • Keith E. Nelson
10. Mindreading, Mind-travelling and the Proto-discursive Origins of Language • Francesco Ferretti & Ines Adornetti
11. From Conversation to Language: An Evolutionary Sensory-Motor Account • Alessandra Chiera
12. Protolanguage as Formulaic Communicaction • Serena Nicchiarelli
Part III. Meaning across Media, Modes and Modalities
13. From Mimesis to Meaning: A Systematics of Gestural Mimesis for Concrete and Abstract Referential Gestures • Cornelia Müller
14. Verbal and Nonverbal Markers of Impolite Behavior in Russian Language and Non-Verbal Code • Grigory Kreydlin & Lidia Khesed
15. Symmetrical Reasoning in Language and Culture: On Ritual Knots and Embodied Cognition • Jamin Pelkey
16. Cognitive Semiotics of Mental Disorders, with Focus on Hallucinations • Štěpán Pudlák
17. Pictorial Responses and Projected Realities: On an Elicitation Procedure and its Ramifications • Gisela Bruche-Schulz
18. Iconic Properties are Lost when Translating Visual Graphics to Text for Accessibility • Peter Coppin, Ambrose Li & Michael Carnevale
Part IV: Language, Blends and Metaphors
19. Deonstemic Modals in Legal Discourse: The Cognitive Semiotics of Layered Actions • Todd Oakley
20. Commutation of Cognitive Source Domains as a Semiotic Tool for Paradigmatic Analysis • Vlado Sušac
21. The Emergence of Multimodal Metaphors in Brazilian Political-electoral Debates • Maíra Avelar
22. “A Light in the Darkness”: Making Sense of Spatial and Lightness Perception • Marco Bagli
23. Performative Metaphor in Cultural Practices • Katherine O’Doherty Jensen
24. Objects and Nouns: An Account of the Vision-Language Interface • Francesco-Alessio Ursini
25. Linguistic Theory in the Framework of Cognitive Semiotics: The Role of Semio-Syntax • Per Aage Brandt
References
List of Contributors
Index: Subject