Advances in Semiotics Ser.: Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language by Marcel

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253316073
ISBN-13
9780253316073
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80145

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
212 Pages
Publication Name
Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language
Language
English
Subject
Individual Philosophers, General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Author
Marcel Danesi
Subject Area
Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Advances in Semiotics Ser.
Format
Hardcover

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176.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.7 in

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LCCN
92-030604
Table Of Content
PREFACEI. Glottogenetic Theories and Research: A Brief SketchTraditional Glottogenetic TheoriesScientific ApproachesThe Shape of Contemporary Glottogenetic TheoriesThe Current State of KnowledgeII. The Primitive Mind: A Vichian ReconstructionVico and Anglo-American SciencePrevious Work on Vico: A Schematic SurveyThe New ScienceBasic Vichian NotionsThe Primitive MindIII. Language and the Imagination: The Vichian Glottogenetic ScenarioThe Vichian ApproachReconstructing the Primal SceneAfter the Primal ScenceIV. The Dawn of Language: The Iconicity and Visual Mimesis HypothesesThe Nature of IconicityThe Research on Imagery, Iconicity, and GestureIconic RepresentationV. From Language to Speech: The Audio-Oral Osmosis HypothesisAudio-Oral OsmosisThe Ontogenesis of SpeechLanguage and SpeechVI. From Percepts to Concepts: The Metaphoricity HypothesisThe Nature of MetaphorMetaphor and Concept-FormationMentation, Narrativity, and MythVII. The Sociobiological-Computationist Viewpoint: A Vichian CritiqueThe Vichian Scenario RevisitedRevisting the Genetic PerspectivecomputationismREFERENCESINDEX
Synopsis
Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, this work presents an account of the evolution and development of language. It seeks to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech.
LC Classification Number
P116.D36 1993

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