
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body : An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory.
Title:
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body : An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory.
Author:
Thibault, Paul.
ISBN:
9781847141521
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1 The Body-brain System, Meaning-making Activity, and Ecosocial Environment: Building a New, Unified Discourse -- 2 The Conceptual Framework of the Ecosocial Semiotic Perspective -- 3 Gibson's Ecological Theory of Perception and the Three-level Scalar Hierarchy View of Organism-plus-Environment Transactions -- 4 The Brain as Regulator of Sensori-motor Activity: Implications for Social Semiosis -- 5 Topological and Typological Modes of Semiotic-material Interdependence -- 6 Contextualization and Meta-redundancy -- 7 A Critique of the Causal View of Brain-mind Relations -- 8 Definning and Extending the Notion of Meaning in Terms of the Three-level Hierarchy and the Specification Hierarchy -- 9 The Signifying Body: Rethinking the Stratified view of Semiosis in Terms of the Three-level Scalar Hierarchy -- 10 Systemic-functional Linguistic Theory: Bringing Together the Intra-organism and Inter-organism Perspectives on Meaning-making -- 11 Reconnecting the Semiotic Concept of Value to the Body-brain System and to Meaning-making Activity -- 12 A Thumbnail Sketch of the Book -- Part II -- Chapter 2: Sensori-motor Activity, Movement, and Social Meaning-making: Rethinking the Expression Plane of Semiosis -- 1 Some Early Signposts from Saussure and Hjelmslev: The Expression Plane as Embodied Articulatory Movement -- 2 Energy Exchange and the Complementarity of Interacting Body-brains -- 3 The Stratified Model of Semiosis: The Problem of Conceptual Abstractness and Scalar Homogeneity -- 4 Blackboxing the Sensori-motor Dimension: Language Seen as Modality-independent Centralized Procesing Mechanism -- 5 The Intentional Character of 'Inner' and 'Outer' Sensori-motor Activity: Towards a Unified Account -- 6 The Symbolic Possibilities of Bodily Movement.
7 Articulatory Movement Seen as Actional Semiotic, Not Physical Behaviour -- 8 Inner and Outer Body States and Social Semiosis -- 9 The Semiotic Mediation and Entraining of Embodied Bio-kinematic Potential -- 10 Metafunctional Diversity on the Expression Plane -- 11 The Expression Plane is the Interface between Body and Ecosocial Environment -- 12 The Metafunctional Basis of Vocal-tract Articulatory Activity -- 13 Subjectivity, Agency, and the Prosodic Realization of Interpersonal Meaning -- 14 Vocal-tract Gestures and Grammar: Symptom and/or Supervenience? -- 15 The Intentional Character of Articulatory Activity -- 16 Embodying the Metafunctions: The Example of Vocal-tract Articulatory Activity -- 17 The Metafunctional Basis of Space and of Bodily Movement in Ecosocial Space-time -- Chapter 3: Body Dynamics, Meaning-making, and Scale Heterogeneity: Expression and Content as Cross-scalar Semiotic Processes Embedding the Body-brain in its Ecosocial Environment -- 1 The Dynamical Character of Expression and Content and the Cross-coupling of Diverse Scalar Levels of Semiotic Organization -- 2 The Expression Stratum and the Principle of Alternation -- 3 Stratification in Relation to Expression and Content -- 4 The Integration of Iconic, Indexical and Symbolic Modes of Meaning in Phonology -- 5 Rhythm and the Foot -- 6 The Metafunctional Organization of Phonology as seen from the Perspective of Rhythm and the Foot -- 7 The Integration of Iconic, Indexical and Symbolic Modes of Meaning in Lexicogrammar -- 8 Language as Particle, Wave, and Field -- 9 The Brain as Selective Recognition System: Language and Edelman's Theory of Recategorization -- 10 The Integration of Individuals to their Semiotic Trajectories -- 11 The Intrinsically Time-bound Nature of Semiosis: The Integration of Temporal Dynamics Across Scales of Expression and Content.
12 Scalar Heterogeneity and the Phonological and Lexicogrammatical Rank Scales -- 13 The Emergence of Linguistic Categories from the Child's Primary Forceful Interactions with its Environment -- Part III -- Chapter 4: The Semiotic Basis of Consciousness -- 1 First-person and Third-person Accounts of Consciousness -- 2 The Representation of Subjective Experience in Consciousness in Relation to the Higher-scalar Environment of the Individual -- 3 Locating the Seat of Consciousness -- 4 The Meaning-making Capacity of the Body-brain Complex through the Discrimination of Difference -- 5 Language Functions and the Cortical Organization of the Brain: Implications for Higher-order Consciousness -- 6 Experiential Meaning and the Assimilation of the Phenomena of Experience to Knowable Categories -- 7 Interpersonal Meaning as Exploratory and Orienting Activity in Relation to the Ground -- 8 The Textual Metafunction as Semiotic Means for Giving Unity and Wholeness to Meaning-making -- 9 Experiential and Interpersonal Meaning in Gaze -- 10 Proto-interpersonal Meaning and the Child's Exploration of its Environment -- 11 Bogdan's Theory of Mental Sharing and Topical Predication -- 12 Interpersonal Meaning, Value, and Action -- 13 Procedural Knowledge, Declarative Knowledge and the Semiotic Spiral towards Symbolic Consciousness -- 14 Interpersonal Meaning, Goal-seeking Activity, and the Goal Hierarchy -- 15 Consciousness and Semiotic Stratification -- 16 An Alternative Reading of Descartes in the Internalist Perspective of Interpretive Activity -- 17 The Entropic Character of Meaning -- 18 Consciousness as the Contextualization of Experience in the Perspective of the Self -- 19 The Embedding of Consciousness in a Higher-scalar System of Interpretance.
Chapter 5: The Metafunctional Character of Consciousness: Some Correlations Between the Neurobiological and Semiotic Dimensions -- 1 The Contextual Character of Consciousness -- 2 The Metafunctions and the Shape of Consciousness -- 3 Vague Contours of the Metafunctions in the Infant's Early Perceptual-motor Engagements with the Environment -- 4 The Structure of (Self) Consciousness in Perceptual Awareness -- 5 Damasio's Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness -- 6 The Proto-metafunctional Structure of Core and Extended Consciousness -- 7 Integrating the Interaction System and the Meaning System Perspectives on (Self) Consciousness -- 8 Minding the Gap between Minds: Mirror Neurons and Interpersonal Meaning -- 9 Inner Speech as Linguistically Realized Higher-order Thinking -- 10 The Metafunctional Character of Inner Speech as Linguistically Constituted Thought -- 11 The Re-grounding of the Perspectives of Self and Other in Symbolic Consciousness -- 12 Text, Social Meaning-making Practices and Higher-order Consciousness -- Chapter 6: Brain, Meaning, and Consciousness -- 1 Biological and Socio-cultural Factors Form a Single System of Complexly Related and Interacting Factors: Putting Time and Activity Back into the Picture -- 2 Re-interpreting Flohr's Brain-based Theory of Phenomenal Awareness: A Three-level Hierarchy View of the Emergence of Proto-meaning in the Brain -- 3 Brain, Meaning, and Symbolic Consciousness -- 4 The Embodiment of the Material and the Conscious Modes in Expression and Content -- 5 Periodicity and the Intrinsic Temporal Organization of the Expression Stratum of Speech on Diverse Scalar Levels -- 6 The Creation of Symbolic Objects of Consciousness in Semantic Neural Space -- 7 Contextualizing Relations, the Principle of Meta-redundancy, and the Brain as Contextualizing Tool.
8 A Definition of Consciousness in Terms of the Semiosis that Occurs Within the Brain -- 9 The Three-level Hierarchy, Neuronal Activity, and the Emergence of the Self-perspective -- Epilogue -- References -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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