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Reinventing Structuralism : What Sign Relations Reveal About Consciousness.
Structuralism was abandoned long before its potential as a cognitive science could be realized. Reviving it with what we know today about the self-organizing capacity of living systems provides new insights into the role of sign relations in the evolution of higher-order consciousness. Treating the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction: The promise of modern-day structuralism; 1 Seeking the correlates of meaning in language; 2 Sign relations as organic properties of mind; 3 Language as a self-organizing system; 4 Applying the sign principle to grammatical meaning; 4.1 Past/non-past: The cancellation feature; 4.2 Future/non-future: The objectiveness feature; 4.3 Perfective/imperfective: The dimensionality feature; 4.4 Plural/non-plural: The plurality feature; 4.5 Relations creating separation: The distinctness feature; 4.6 Relations defined on the present as a conceptual property: The extension feature.
- 5 Case relations as a product of grammatical selection5.1 The Russian accusative and instrumental; 5.2 The Russian genitive and genitive/accusative; 5.3 The Russian dative and subjectless sentences; 5.4 The system of Russian cases; 6 Extending the sign principle to syntax; 6.1 The modification relation in English: The extension feature; 6.2 The modification relation in Russian: The dimensionality feature; 6.3 The modification relation in French: The plurality feature; 7 The potential of sign theory in the domain of lexical meaning; 7.1 Preliminary concepts; 7.2 Verbal lexical systems.
- 7.3 Nominal lexical systems8 The feature hierarchy that defines human conceptual space; 8.1 The evidence from transpersonal psychology; 8.2 The evidence from the study of myth; 9 Neurological evidence for the evolution of higher-order consciousness; 9.1 The neurological structure of consciousness; 9.2 The evolution of the language faculty; 9.3 The sign relation and the origin of image-making; 10 The position of structuralism in the modern era; 10.1 Saussure's langue and parole; 10.2 Derrida's différance; 10.3 Lévi-strauss' contentless structure; 10.4 Lacan's symbolic order.
- 10.5 Bybee's usage-based grammar10.6 Jakobson's relative autonomy; Epilogue: The wisdom of the primal mind; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.