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Book 2017.0

Gli stili prenatali

Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani

Dependent title: Un'estetica psicofisiologica

Biology / Biosemiotics Armando Editore 9788869922787 Available

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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.

Identifier: 9788869922787

Status: Available

Book 2013.0

A History of Psycholinguistics

Willem J. M. Levelt

Edition: 1 edition

Linguistics Oxford University Press 9780199653669 Available

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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era

Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.

Identifier: 9780199653669

Status: Available

Book 2010.0

Semiosis and Catastrophes

edited by Wolfgang Wildgen and Paer Aage Brandt

Edition: 1 edition

Linguistics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034304672 Available

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Other title information: René Thom’s Semiotic Heritage

Annotation: The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems – from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated? Where do they come from? What kind of forces drive their unfolding? How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles? Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers.

Identifier: 9783034304672

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

Global Semiotics

Thomas A. Sebeok

General Semiotics Indiana University Press 025333957X Available

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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."

Identifier: 025333957X

Status: Available

Journal Article 2000

The ‘human behavior complex’ and the compulsion of communication: Key factors of human evolution

Vilmos Csányi

In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages: 243-258

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.243

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.243

Gli stili prenatali

A History of Psycholinguistics

Semiosis and Catastrophes

Global Semiotics

The ‘human behavior complex’ and the compulsion of communication: Key factors of human evolution

An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior

The micro-grading of procedural words as a metric of behaviors: The evolutionary sequenceability of verbs

The rhetorical organization of verbal and nonverbal behavior in emotion talk

The natural bases of semiotic behavior

Faces in the clouds

Structuring the domain of human nonverbal behavior: A biological, Popperian perspective from the field of human movement studies

Predictive aspects of nonverbal courtship behavior in women

Interface design: A semiotic paradigm

Material bases of signification

Object as memory: The material foundations of human semiosis

Peirce’s teleological signs

Review article

Verbal icons and self-reference

Contributions to the Semiotics of Marketing and Consumer Behavior 1985-88

Kriemhilt’s face work: A sociolinguistic analysis of social behavior in the Nibelungenlied

A semiology of interaction: Posing the problem

Female sexuality, mockery, and a challenge to fate: A reinterpretation of South Nayar talikettukalyanam

INFERENCING SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL PROCESSES FROM NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR

Review article

Seeing and believing: A study of contemporary spiritual readers

The Interpretation of pronominal paradigms: Speech situation, pragmatic meaning, and cultural structure

The salience, equivalence, and sequential structure of behavioral elements in different social situations

A transcription and analysis system for the study of women’s clothing behavior

Aspects of the properties of formulations in natural conversations: Some instances analysed

Compte rendu

Hypnosis: Metaphorical encounters of the fourth kind

Interactive functions and limitations of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in natural conversation

Placement of topic changes in conversation

Un exemple d'application de la sémiologie comme test du discours: Le Système de controle des métaux précieux et l’exercice du pouvoir politique

Toward Semantic Analysis of Movement Behavior: Concepts and Problems

Maximizing Replicability in Describing Facial Behavior

Segmenting the Behavior Stream: Verbal Reports as Data

Shoulder Shrugging: A Densely Communicative Expressive Behavior

The Self and Body Movement Behavior

Review Article

Review Article

The Symbolic Function, Particularly in Language