Meaning, culture, and cognition
By: Franson Manjali.
Publisher: Bahri Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Semantics.; Language and culture.; Metaphor.; Semiotics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface v; title: CRITIQUE; title: 1. Culture and Semantics 1; title: 2. What is 'Cartesian' in Linguistics? 8; title: 3. Computer, Brain and Grammatical Theory 22; title: DYNAMICAL SEMANTICS; title: 4. From Discrete Signs to Dynamic Semantic Continuum 37; title: 5. Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics:; title: Towards a Physics of Meaning 50; title: 6. Ontological and Cognitive Bases of kiraka Theory 60; title: 7. 'Force Dynamics' as a Dynamical Sem-antics Model 72; title: METAPHOR; title: 8. Body, Space and Metaphorical-Cultural Worlds 85; title: 9. Metaphors in Grammar 103; title: SEMIOTICS; title: 10. Dynamics in Nar-rative Structures 123; title: 11. -Perspectives in the Semiotics of Objects 139; title: 12. Tfhe Semantics of 'Nukespeak' 149; title: POST-STRUCTURALISM I POSTMODERNISM; title: 13. Language, Power, and Plurality 155; title: 14. On Difference(s) 160; title: 15. Dialogics, or the Dynamics of Intersubjectivity 170; title: 16. Writing, hifinity, and Dialogicality 178; title: 17. Lacan, Denrida and the Vicissitudes of the 'Sign' 185.