Semiotic Evolution And The Dynamics Of Culture

Author : Marcel Bax
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039103942
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Evolution and the Dynamics of Culture written by Marcel Bax and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about patterns of development in the history of culture. Bringing together three areas of research: semiotics, cultural history, and evolutionary psychology, it attempts to bridge the gap that still separates the study of culture from the cognitive sciences. The multidisciplinary approach chosen by the contributors derives its impetus from the deep conviction that in order to understand the logic of cultural development, one must take the building blocks of culture, that is, signs and language, as a starting point for research. Central issues related to patterns of cultural evolution are dealt with in contributions on the development of mind and culture, the history of the media, the diversity of sign systems, culture and code, and the dynamics of semiosis. Theoretically oriented contributions alternate with in-depth case studies on such diverging topics as the evolution of language and art in prehistory, ritual as the fountainhead of indirect communication, developments in renaissance painting, the evolution of classification systems in chemistry, changing attitudes toward animal consciousness, and developments in computer technology.

Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110877503
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Semiosis written by Winfried Nöth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter A. Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Semiotics written by Walter A. Koch and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110141962
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Semiosis written by Winfried Nöth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1994 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter A. Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics written by Walter A. Koch and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen J. Cowley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027202532
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distributed Language written by Stephen J. Cowley and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially 'symbolic', not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go about their lives. Distributed Language pursues this perspective both theoretically and in relation to empirical work. Empirically, it reports studies on the anticipatory dynamics of reading, its socio-cognitive consequences, Shakespearean theatre, what images evoke (in brain and word), and solving insight problems. Theoretically, the volume challenges linguistic autonomy from overlapping theoretical positions. First, it is argued that language exploits a species specific form of semiotic cognition. Second, it is suggested that the central function of language lies in realizing values that derive from our ecosystemic existence. Third, this is ascribed to how cultural and biological symbols co-regulate the dynamics that shape human activity. Fourth, it is argued that language, far from being organism-centred, gives us an extended ecology in which our co-ordination is saturated by values and norms that are derived from our sociocultural environment. The contributions to this volume expand on those originally published in Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009).

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317743180
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture written by Farzad Sharifian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

Author : John Hartley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 1501369210
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Digital Semiosphere written by John Hartley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only since global media and digital communications became accessible to ordinary populations – with Telstar, jumbo jets, the pc and mobile devices – that humans have been able to experience their own world as planetary in extent. What does it mean to be one species on one planet, rather than a patchwork of scattered, combative and mutually untranslatable cultures? One of the most original and prescient thinkers to tackle cultural globalisation was Juri Lotman (1922-93). On the Digital Semiosphere shows how his general model of the semiosphere provides a unique and compelling key to the dynamics and functions of today's globalised digital media systems and, in turn, their interactions and impact on planetary systems. Developing their own reworked and updated model of Lotman's evolutionary and dynamic approach to the semiosphere or cultural universe, the authors offer a unique account of the world-scale mechanisms that shape media, meanings, creativity and change – both productive and destructive. In so doing, they re-examine the relations among the contributing sciences and disciplines that have emerged to explain these phenomena, seeking to close the gap between biosciences and humanities in an integrated 'cultural science' approach.

Author : Wolfgang Wildgen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027251930
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Human Language written by Wolfgang Wildgen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have developed, on the basis of the state of the art in evolutionary anthropology and genetics. (2) Non-linguistic symbolic behavior such as cave art is investigated as an important clue to the developmental background to the origin of language. Creativity and innovation and a population's ability to integrate individual experiments are considered with regard to historical examples of symbolic creativity in the visual arts and natural sciences. (3) Probable linguistic 'fossils' of such linguistic innovations are examined. The results of this study allow for new proposals for a 'protolanguage' and for a theory of language within a broader philosophical and semiotic framework, and raises interesting questions as to human consciousness, universal grammar, and linguistic methodology. (Series B)

Author : Elli Marie Tragel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303147001X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Dynamic Semiosis written by Elli Marie Tragel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: