Cognitive semiotics : signs, mind and meaning / Per Aage Brandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Per Aage, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in semiotics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 241 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 Blending

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

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-14332-4

1-350-14333-2

1-350-14331-6

OCLC:

1152064941