| Description |
1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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Advances in semiotics |
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Advances in semiotics.
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| Summary |
The origin of language is one of the deep mysteries of human existence. Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, Marcel Danesi fashions a persuasive, original account of the evolution and development of language. Seeking to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech, he takes Vico's insight that mind, culture, and language evolved from the uniquely human faculty known as fantasia ("the imagination") and sketches a "primal scene" of compelling interest. Danesi identifies metaphor, the feature of mind that transforms iconic, perceptual thinking into conceptual thinking, as the crucial event in the Vichian scenario. The description of this scenario forms the core of Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language. Danesi then evaluates the Vichian reconstruction of the origin of language in light of contemporary research in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences and with competing theories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
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| SUBJECT |
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. cct |
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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 fast |
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Metaphor.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Metaphor.
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Langage et langues -- Origines.
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Métaphore.
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Language and languages -- Origin
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Metaphor
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Taalgenese.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
92030604 |
| ISBN |
058520294X |
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9780585202945 |
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9780253113702 |
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0253113709 |
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