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Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science : Philosophy and Writing.
Title:
Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science : Philosophy and Writing.
Author:
Danesi, Marcel.
ISBN:
9783110881349
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Series:
Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; v.119

Approaches to Semiotics [AS]
Contents:
Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective -- Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime -- Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective -- Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective -- Vico and second language acquisition -- Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico -- Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective -- Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign -- Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics -- The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic? -- From Vico to Cassirer to Langer -- The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies -- From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective -- Imaginative universals -- An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences -- Vico and theories of change in language -- Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce -- A selected bibliography of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences -- Index.
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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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