The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain
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The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain

About this book

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.

Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Its various chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals.

This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Introduction: Semiosis, brain, and context: The unmet need for a transdisciplinary framework
  10. Part I Prolegomena to neurosemiotics
  11. 1 Neurosemiotics: A brief history of its development and key concerns
  12. 2 Steps to a semiotic cognitive neuroscience
  13. 3 An active inference approach to semiotics: A variational theory of signs
  14. 4 Experimental semiotics: Past, present, and future
  15. 5 Beyond the human animal: Towards a cross-species neurosemiotics
  16. Part II Language and its pathways to meaning
  17. 6 Neural bases of multimodal semantics
  18. 7 Embodied mechanisms and the shaping of semantics
  19. 8 The figurative brain
  20. 9 Pharmacological modulation of meaning attribution
  21. 10 How grammar means
  22. 11 Discourse and the brain: Capturing meaning in the wild
  23. 12 Words, meanings, and the bilingual brain
  24. 13 How do sign languages mean?
  25. Part III The neurosemiotics of social dynamics
  26. 14 Empathy, meaning, and the human brain
  27. 15 Biological bases of moral cognition and their role in the construal of meaning
  28. 16 The neurosemiotics of social interaction: Insights from second-person neuroscience
  29. 17 Joint epistemic engineering: The neglected process in human communication
  30. 18 Towards a neurosemiotics of friendship
  31. 19 Neurosemiotics and ideology: A linguistic view
  32. 20 The interplay of culture, religion, and biology
  33. Part IV Further semiotic domains
  34. 21 What makes us human? Face identity recognition
  35. 22 Musical signs and the human organism
  36. 23 The meaning of tools: The pragmatic value of semantic knowledge
  37. 24 Interpreting the signals within: Meaning and prediction during interoception
  38. 25 The hierarchical semantics of self
  39. Index