Per Aage Brandt was born in Buenos Aires and studied Romance Philology in Copenhagen. He defended his doctoral thesis in Semio-linguistics of the Sorbonne in 1987, Since 1998 he has been Professor of Semiotics at the University of Aarhus. In 2001/2002 he was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behovioral Sciences in Stanford. He was awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophie 2002 de l'Académie française.
Spaces, domains, and meaning
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- PrésentationBroché
- ISBN3-03910-227-3
- EAN9783039102273
- Date de parution01/01/2004
- CollectionSémiotique européenne
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
Cognitive Semiotics is a new discipline dedicated to the analysis of meaning. It combines cognitive linguistics and semantics with structural and dynamic semiotics, and seeks to elaborate a coherent framework for the study of language and thought, gesture and culture, discourse and text, art and symbolization in general. The essays of this book develop a semiotic elaboration of the theory of mental spaces, a grounding hypothesis of semantic domains, and the methodologically necessary idea of a mental architecture corresponding to the neural organization of our brain, and compatible with the basic facts of human phenomenology. This volume presents the author's recent research, carried out at the Aarhus center, where American and European approaches to language-based semantics have been meeting for a particularly inspiring decade.