Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Foundations for Deictic Meaning
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Front Matter
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Cognitive and Affective Considerations
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Semiotic Considerations
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Back Matter
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play
Authors: Donna E West
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39443-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39442-3Published: 19 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43672-7Published: 21 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39443-0Published: 05 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Language Education