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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

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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

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Book 2013.0

Crossing Boundaries

edited by Giuseppina Marsico | Koji Komatsu and Antonio Iannaccone

Social IAP Information Age Publishing 9781623963941 Available

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Other title information: Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family and School

Notes: editor of the series Jaan Valsiner

Annotation: Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Emphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practicies regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems.

Identifier: 9781623963941

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Book 2012.0

The Shared Mind

edited by Jordan Zlatev | Timothy P. Racine | Chris Sinha | Esa Itkonen

Social John Benjamins Publishing Company 9789027239068 Available

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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.

Identifier: 9789027239068

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Book 2006.0

Music and the Arts

edited by Eero Tarasti

Edition
1 edition

Music International Semiotics Institiute 9525431096 Available

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Other title information: Volume II

Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.

Identifier: 9525431096

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Book 2006.0

Prenatal styles in the arts and the life

Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani

Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute and Universita Popolare di MusicArTerapia 9525431150 Available

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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.

Identifier: 9525431150

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Book 2004.0

The savage mind

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Culture Oxford University Press 0297995235 Available

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Notes: Originally published in 1962

Annotation: Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies

Identifier: 0297995235

Status: Available

Book 2000.0

Bloom's morning

Arthur Asa Berger

Edition
2nd

Culture Westview Press 0595167500 Available

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Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life

Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.

Identifier: 0595167500

Status: Available

Book 2000.0

The Perception of the Environment

Tim Ingold

Space Routledge 0415228328 Available

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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill

Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

Identifier: 0415228328

Status: Available

Book 1998.0

Hi-fives

Roberta Kevelson | edited by Robert Kevelson

General Semiotics Peter Lang Publishing 0820438421 Available

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Other title information: a trip to semiotics

Annotation: The newcomer to semiotics is the primary intended reader of this book. Each of the authors of the various branches of semiotics open this perspective to all who want to know about semiotics, as well as to those who want to add to their knowledge of semiotics. The topics cover the major areas of semiotics and the human sciences: linguistics, theater, psychology, religion, anthropology, history, law, graphics, music, media, poetics, architecture, and a capsule overview of Charles Sanders Peirce. The individual essays develop each specialist's approach to semiotics, with full bibliography for follow-through. The introductory chapter points out the unifying themes that tie the special topics together

Identifier: 0820438421

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Book 1993.0

Social psychology in the '90s

Kay Deaux | Francis C. Dane | Lawrence S. Wrightsman | in association with Carol K. Siegelman

Edition
6 edition

Social Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. 0534103987 Available

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Annotation: A detailed overview of different concepts in social psychology

Identifier: 0534103987

Status: Available

Book 1992.0

Meaning and Geography

Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos | Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou

Space Mouton de Gruyter 3110129566 Available

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Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece

Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.

Identifier: 3110129566

Status: Available

Book 1990.0

Det Dialogiska Ordet

Mikhail Bakhtin (Michail Bachtin)

Edition
3 edition

General Semiotics Anthropos 918577209X Available

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Annotation: Alla gångbara cynismer och sofismer om konstnärliga schabloners ofrånkomlighet och subjektets undergång i vår komplicerade massmediala värld etc sopas bort av Bachtins enkla uppmaning att konsten på allvar, att svara på det tilltal som riktas mot en: "För det som jag förstått och upplevt i konsten är jag skyldig att ansvara med mitt liv, så att allt det som jag upplevt och förstått inte skall vara verkningslöst i livet." All common cynicisms and sophisms about the inevitability of artistic templates and the demise of the subject in our complicated mass media world, etc., are swept away by Bakhtin's simple call to take art seriously, to respond to the appeal that is made to one: "For what I have understood and experienced in art, I am obliged to be responsible with my life, so that all that I have experienced and understood shall not be ineffective in life." (Translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 918577209X

Status: Available

Journal Article 1989

Cognitive psychology and text processing: From text representation to text-world

GUY DENHlÈRE; SERGE BAUDET

In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.271

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.271

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Journal Article 1984

English color terms: Language, culture, and psychology

CARL MILLS

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.95

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.95

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Journal Article 1984

Guest editorial

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-6

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1984

Position paper

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.7

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.7

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Journal Article 1984

Publications received

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.157

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.157

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Journal Article 1984

Review article

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.119

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.119

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Journal Article 1984

Rezension

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.111

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.111

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Journal Article 1984

Signs, singularities and significance: A physical model for semiotics

F. EUGENE YATES; PETER N. KUGLER

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.49

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.49

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Journal Article 1984

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.u

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.u

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Journal Article 1984

What does semiotics come from?

ALAIN REY

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.79

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.79

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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

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Journal Article 1977

Linguistic Form and Meaning

JÁNOS KELEMEN

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.123

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.123

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Journal Article 1977

Linguistics and Semiotics

PAUL L. GARVIN

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.101

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.101

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Journal Article 1977

On the Spatial and Cultural Characteristics of Courtly Romance

KARIN M. BOKLUND

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-38

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1977

Position and Velocity and Wave and Corpuscle: On the Semiotic Side of Physics

HARLEY C. SHANDS

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.111

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.111

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Journal Article 1977

Quatre contes sur l'Ours

MARIANNE MESNIL

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.49

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.49

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Journal Article 1977

Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Semiotic Microcosm of Gottfried's Tristan

JAMES W. HUTCHISON

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.39

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.39

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Journal Article 1977

Speech and Interaction in Sound-only Communication Channels

BRIAN BUTTERWORTH; R. R. HINE; K. D. BRADY

In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.81

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.81

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Book 1974.0

Ideology and Insanity

Thomas S. Szasz

Dependent title
Essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man

Social Pelican Books 0140218262 Available

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Annotation: In the social and political conflicts that take place in any society, control of the weak by the strong is justified by the rhetoric appropriate to the prevailing ideology. The 20th century’s credo is Mental Health; and in its name those who deviate from accepted social norms are often victimized and dehumanized. The author of these fourteen essays is a psychoanalyst and teacher. Here, Dr. Thomas Szasz shows how, by encouraging us to wage war on the false front of mental illness, psychiatry too often serves as a convenient way of avoiding confrontations with moral conflicts and societal problems. And, he warns us, if we persist in defining the vicissitudes of life as mental illnesses, and psychiatric interventions as medical treatments, we court the hazards of political tyranny disguised as psychiatric therapy.

Identifier: 0140218262

Status: Available

Book 1973.0

Recherches sur les systemes signifiants

J. Rey-Debove

General Semiotics Mouton Available

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Other title information: Symposium de Varsovie 1968

Annotation: A compilation of papers covering different topics through a semiotic approach, including literature, linguistics, psychology and zoosemiotics

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