Sign, meaning, knowledge : an essay in the cognitive philosophy of language /
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| Author / Creator: | Kravchenko, A. V. (Aleksandr Vladimirovich) |
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| Uniform title: | Znak, znachenie, znanie. English |
| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c2003. |
| Description: | 251 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5672948 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1.. The Circle of Knowledge
- 1.1.. How Well Does Linguistics "Know" Language?
- 1.1.1.. The Explanatory Limitations of Linguistic Science
- 1.1.2.. The Vicious Circle of Tradition
- 1.1.3.. Evolutionary Agenda
- 1.2.. Looking for a Way Out
- Chapter 2.. Semiotics and Its Object
- 2.1.. Philosophical and Linguistic Aspects of Semiotics
- 2.2.. Transition Stages of Semiotics as a Science
- 2.2.1.. The Classical Tradition
- 2.2.2.. St. Augustine and his Successors
- 2.2.3.. Peirce and Saussure
- 2.3.. Semiotics and Contemporary Linguistics
- 2.4.. Biosemiotics
- Chapter 3.. Semiosis as a Cognitive Process
- 3.1.. Where Do Signs Come from?
- 3.1.1.. Sign as a Category
- 3.1.2.. The Role of Interpretation in Semiosis
- 3.2.. Natural and Conventional Signs
- 3.3.. Essential Properties of Signs
- 3.3.1.. On the Relationship between the Signifier and the Signified
- 3.3.2.. The Symbol and the Sign
- 3.3.3.. The Matter of the Linguistic Sign
- 3.3.3.1.. Pragmatic Criteria for Sign Vehicles
- 3.3.3.2.. Resolution Power of Signs
- 3.4.. Conventionality and Intentionality
- Chapter 4.. Essential Properties of Language
- 4.1.. Introductory Notes
- 4.2.. Meaning and Sense, or the Problem of Definitions
- 4.2.1.. The Rationalist Paradigm
- 4.2.2.. Physicalism
- 4.2.3.. Pragmatics and Functionalism
- 4.3.. The Properties of Language as an Empirical Object
- 4.3.1.. Biological Conception of Language
- 4.3.2.. Biological Approach to Information
- 4.4.. Language as Adaptive Activity
- Chapter 5.. Cognitive Conception of the Sign
- 5.1.. Ontology of Signs
- 5.1.1.. Representations
- 5.1.2.. Causal Relations
- 5.1.3.. Representations and the Cognitive Tuning of an Organism
- 5.2.. Epistemology of Signs
- 5.2.1.. Non-Linguistic and Linguistic Entities
- 5.2.1.1.. On the Definitive Property of Linguistic Signs
- 5.2.1.2.. Where Linguistic Semiotics Went Wrong
- 5.2.1.3.. Cognition and Grammar
- 5.2.2.. Interactional Cognitive Domain
- 5.3.. Intentionality and Signification
- Short Summary
- Bibliography
- List of Abbreviations
- Index of Names