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Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind.
Title:
Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind.
Author:
Boguslawska-Tafelska, Marta.
ISBN:
9783653031065
Physical Description:
1 online resource (123 pages)
Series:
Interfaces ; v.29

Interfaces
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1 Towards a functional and applicationaldefinition of human language -- Ecolinguistics as the model's model in contemporary language studies -- Structuralist and neostructuralist views on human language -- Human language defined as a process -- Conclusion: substance vs. process as the complementary yet incompatible relationship within a whole -- 2 Interdisciplinary scientific work tounderstand the essence of the world -- The life of language as a quantum phenomenon generated by the quantum mind -- The holographic structure of the quantum mind -- Quantum brain dynamics -- Walach and von Stillfried's model of Generalised Quantum Theory to describe behavior of all living systems -- The interdisciplinary paradigm in contemporary cognitive linguistics -- Towards reconciliation of the schism between thematerialistic/scientific domain and the spiritual domain of human experience -- Modern physics: definitions of consciousness, and transcending the perspective of the individual towards the unification of all-that-is -- Conclusions -- 3 Ecolinguistics: pathways in research -- Introduction -- Ecolinguistics: the first opening -- Ecolinguistics: the second opening -- The primary, unifying substance of the world in the eyes of language researchers -- Three types of filters through which we see reality -- The process of learning -- Communicology. Semiosphere. General Mechanism of Linking -- Conclusions -- 4 New perception on mind, meaning and cognitive processes -- Introduction -- Traditional conceptualizations of the human mind -- Human mind/brain as measuring machinery to browse in the world of possibilities -- Superposition in the world of possibilities -- The mind/brain used in ex-formation or in-formation of the holographic world of oneness -- What is consciousness?.

Cognition in the holographic model of the world and man: thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, evaluation -- Non-local relatedness and the cognitive processes of problem-solving, evaluation and decision-making -- The functional strategy to browse in the world of possibilities -- The ecolinguistic model of interpersonal communication -- A communicator's identity pre-parametrising a communicative event -- The illusion of language manipulation -- Micro expressions in communication -- Emotional expression and cross-paradigmatic phenomena in living systems -- Biochemical signals in intraspecies and interspecies communication -- Meaning as a process -- 'To see is not to see' -- 5 Applications and prospects of ecolinguistics as a new linguistics paradigm -- Introduction -- Mass communication: collective (non)consciousness, culture, society -- Group mind and the educational process: educational dyads -- What are the expectations about university education? The collective mind perspective -- Emergent nature of linguistic signs -- Paradigms colliding: autism, ADHD and similar profiles of a new human -- Conclusions -- References.
Abstract:
This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language and communication, probes deep into the core of not only modern linguistics but modern science in general, while relating to conceptions of the world as well as to the scientific method itself. Thus, when ecological thinking is applied to science, it eventually will incite a methodological and philosophical rethinking. This study reports the fundamental shifts occurring after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences and Humanities. The substance of various qualities, from the very dense and tangible, to subtle mental or cognitive non-matter, becomes an ecosystem for human language on both a very direct, material plane, as well as on the non-material plane. In fact, human language, as perceived by an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of other life processes.
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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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