The Semiotics of X : chiasmus, cognition and extreme body memory /

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Author / Creator:Pelkey, Jamin R., 1974- author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398811
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ISBN:9781474273855
1474273858
9781474273862
1474273866
1474273831
9781474273831
9781474273824
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9781474273831
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:The X figure is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but attempts to explain our fixation with X are rare. This book argues that the origins and meanings of X go far beyond alphabets and archetypes to remembered feelings of body movements - movements best typified in the performance of "spread-eagle" as a posture or gesture. These body memories are then projected onto other patterns and dynamics to help us make sense of the world. The argument is accomplished using a blend of insights from linguistic anthropology, cognitive linguistics, rhetoric culture and process semiotics to bring together revealing clues from languages, cultures and thinkers around the world. Chief among the uses and experiences of X are its tendencies to involve us in surprising reversals and blends. In ancient times the X-pattern was discussed as "chiasmus", a figure which, according to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, informs the most basic elements of our bodily experience, calling into question polarized dichotomies such as subject versus object. Pushed to extremes, presumed opposites like these tend to reverse suddenly. Likewise, blended experiences of our bodily extremities - arms and legs, toes and fingers, hands and feet - provide a plausible source of grounding for unique human abilities like analogy and double-scope conceptual integration
Other form:Print version: Pelkey, Jamin R., 1974- Semiotics of X. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017] 9781474273824

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