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Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play

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  • Original research on deictic advances in thought and language conducted from a semiotic perspective
  • Peirce’s Integration of Bühler’s Individual Cognition with Social Indexes
  • Written by a leading expert in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 11)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Foundations for Deictic Meaning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. Introduction

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 3-14
    3. The Origin of Indexical Species

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 15-44
  3. Cognitive and Affective Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-46
    2. Bühler’s Account of Deixis as Index

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 47-65
    3. Piaget’s Contribution to Spatial Logic

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 67-89
  4. Semiotic Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Peirce’s Evolving Interpretant

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 119-138
    3. Evidence of Things Not Seen

      • Donna E. West
      Pages 139-165
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 179-190

About this book

This work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object. The book offers a fresh, applied philosophical approach using original empirical evidence to show that deictic demonstratives hasten the recognition of core representational constructs.  It presents a case where the comprehension of shifting points of view by means of deixis is paramount to a theory of mind and to a worldview that incorporates human components of discovering and extending spatial knowledge.  The book supports Peirce’s triadic sign theory as a more adequate explanatory account compared with those of Bühler and Piaget.  Peirce’s unitary approach underscores the artificiality of constructing a worldview driven by logical reasoning alone; it highlights the importance of self-regulation and the appreciation of otherness within a sociocultural milieu. Integral to this semiotic perspective is imagination as a primary tool for situating the self in constructed realities, thus infusing reality with new possibilities. Imagination is likewise necessary to establish postures of mind for the self and others. Within these imaginative scenarios (consisting of overt, and then covert self dialogue) children construct their own worldviews, through linguistic role-taking, as they legitimize conflicting viewpoints within imagined spatial frameworks.

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, USA

    Donna E West

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