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The Music of Meaning

Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

By: Per Aage Brandt,Ulf Cronquist

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The Music of Meaning

Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

By: Per Aage Brandt,Ulf Cronquist

This book is about meaning in music, poetry, and language; it is about signs: symbols, icons, diagrams, and more. It concerns art and how we communicate, how we make sense to each other—including the concept of nonsense. It is about metaphor and irony. It embraces a vast human universe of signification and some of its cognitive machines of meaning-making: a complex and diverse unfolding of the expressive human mind. These 24 essays study different aspects of the way we signify, present recent research and models of such processes, and discuss the—often intricate—problems of understanding the relations between expression and thought. In evolution, music may have preceded the language of words, and music remains indirectly present in every temporal unfolding of bodily, affective, playful, meaningful activity. We are immersed in meaning and have to ‘listen’ to it since it constitutes the semiotic reality structuring the world as we experience it.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527539261

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9781527539266

Cognitive Semiotics

Signs, Mind, and Meaning

By: Per Aage Brandt

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Cognitive Semiotics

Signs, Mind, and Meaning

By: Per Aage Brandt

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.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350143316

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Cognitive Semiotics

Signs, Mind and Meaning

By: Per Aage Brandt

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Signs, Mind and Meaning

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Bloomsbury Academic

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1350143332

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Spaces, Domains, and Meanings

Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

By: Per Aage Brandt

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Spaces, Domains, and Meanings

Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

By: Per Aage Brandt

Cognitive Semiotics is a new discipline dedicated to the analysis of meaning. It combines cognitive linguistics and semantics with structural and dynamic semiotics, and seeks to elaborate a coherent framework for the study of language and thought, gesture and culture, discourse and text, art and symbolization in general. The essays of this book develop a semiotic elaboration of the theory of mental spaces, a grounding hypothesis of semantic domains, and the methodologically necessary idea of a mental architecture corresponding to the neural organization of our brain, and compatible with the basic facts of human phenomenology. This volume presents the author's recent research, carried out at the Aarhus center, where American and European approaches to language-based semantics have been meeting for a particularly inspiring decade.

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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

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3039102273

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9783039102273

If I Were a Suicide Bomber

By: Per Aage Brandt

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If I Were a Suicide Bomber

By: Per Aage Brandt

A cognitive scientist by trade, Per Aage Brandt's poems resemble little puzzle boxes - all quite short with lines of almost identical length. But within this seemingly rigid structure, he explores a vast range of topics, from death and communication to catastrophes, economics, intimacy, dreams, and cats. At once philosophical and playful, these poems stimulate the mind and are also disarmingly human.

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The Music of Meaning

The Music of Meaning

Cognitive Semiotics

Cognitive Semiotics

Cognitive Semiotics

Cognitive Semiotics

Spaces, Domains, and Meanings

Spaces, Domains, and Meanings

If I Were a Suicide Bomber

If I Were a Suicide Bomber

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