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Book 2013.0

Tuning the Self

Eelco van Es

Edition: 1 edition

Literature Peter Lang Publishing 9783034313780 Available

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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour

Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.

Identifier: 9783034313780

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

I Quattro Elementi

Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani

Dependent title: nella Globalità dei Linguaggi

Culture Borla 882631411X Available

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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.

Identifier: 882631411X

Status: Available

Book 1996.0

Language and Human Behaviour

Derek Bickerton

Linguistics UCL Press Limited 1857285417 Available

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Annotation: Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation.

Identifier: 1857285417

Status: Available

Book 1982.0

Body movement and nonverbal communication

Martha Davis | Janet Skupien

Biology / Biosemiotics Indiana University Press 0253341019 Available

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Other title information: an annotated bibliography, 1971-1981

Annotation: 1410 references to published literature in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. 12 annotators wrote the abstracts and prepared a subject index. The bibliography includes works published in six languages that are directly concerned with the psychology or anthropology of body movement. Articles or books from areas such as dance therapy, motor learning, psycholinguistics, ethology, and physical education are included only if they deal in some way with behavioural aspects of movement per se and if they are focused clearly on body language – particularly research in body language as opposed to clinical or training program reports.

Identifier: 0253341019

Status: Available

Journal Article 1981

Evaluation of postures

BENEDICT PERRINO

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.37.1-2.27

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.37.1-2.27

Tuning the Self

I Quattro Elementi

Language and Human Behaviour

Body movement and nonverbal communication

Evaluation of postures

Hello–Goodbye: An analysis of children′s telephone conversations

Identifying and counting utterances

Pooh talk: Formulating children’s conversational troubles

Review article

Sonstiges

The management of grantings and rejections by parents in request sequences

The relative contribution of verbal, vocal, and visual channels to person perception: Experiment and critique

Unresolved theoretical issues in nonverbal communication

Compte-rendu

Metapher, Metonymy, and Synecdoche Revis(it)ed

Prokofiev’s Score and Cantata for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky

Sémiotique picturale: Analyse d’une mosaïque byzantine

The Arms and Hands, with Special Reference to an Anglo-Saxon Sign System

The Self and Body Movement Behavior

The Semiotics of a Genre: Portraiture in Literature and Painting