Psychosemiotics (Semiotics and the Human Sciences)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780820452364
Subjects: Psycholinguistics; Semiotics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Sociology; Language; Sociology - General; General; Linguistics; Cognition; Culture; Psychological aspects; Semiotic models
Description: "This book introduces psychosemiotics, the study of how we learn, understand, and use the signs of culture. In describing seven signways through which we come to know our worlds. Howard A. Smith applies insights from multiple intelligences theory, evolutionary psychology, and the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce. This book also provides implications for educational practice and suggestions for ongoing inquiry in psychosemiotics."--BOOK JACKET.