Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American science : philosophy and writing / edited by Marcel Danesi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danesi, Marcel, 1946-

Series:

Approaches to semiotics ; 119.

Approaches to semiotics ; 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

Vico, Giambattista.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 p.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Other Title:

Vico and Anglo-American science

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eighteen papers (from a 1990 International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, U. of Toronto), discuss various topics connected with the Neapolitan rhetorician and philosopher Giambattista Vico (1688-1744), neglected in the world of Anglo-American science, philosophy, and writing u

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective / Danesi, Marcel

Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime / Cotrupi, Nella

Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective / D'Alfonso, Aldo

Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective / Danesi, Marcel

Vico and second language acquisition / Di Pietro, Robert J.

Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico / Guardiani, Francesco

Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective / Makkai, Adam

Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign / Makolkin, Anna

Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics / Nuessel, Frank

The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic? / O'Neill, John

From Vico to Cassirer to Langer / Sebeok, Thomas A.

The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies / Tagliacozzo, Giorgio

From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective / Titone, Renzo

Imaginative universals / Verene, Donald Phillip

An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences / Verna, Anthony / Danesi, Marcel

Vico and theories of change in language / Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana

Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce / Weir, Lorraine

A selected bibliography of recent Anglo- American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences / Verna, Anthony / Danesi, Marcel

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-271) and index.

Contains:

Vico and Anglo-American science.

ISBN:

9783110881349

3110881349

OCLC:

979588934