Meaning In Mind And Society

Author : Peter Harder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110216059

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Meaning is embodied - but it is also social. If Cognitive Linguistics is to be a complete theory of language in use, it must cover the whole spectrum from grounded cognition to discourse struggles and bullshit. This book tries to show how. Cognitive Linguistics knocked down the wall between language and the experiential content of the human mind. Frame semantics, embodiment, conceptual construal, figure-ground organization, metaphorical mapping, and mental spaces are among the results of this breakthrough, which at the same time provided cognitive science as a whole with an essential human dimension. A new phase began when Cognitive Linguistics started to see itself as part of the wider movement of 'usage-based' linguistics. Bringing about an alliance between mind and discourse, it complemented the conceptual dimension that had been dominant until then with a 'use' dimension - thereby living up to the explicit 'experiential' commitment of Cognitive Linguistics. This outward expansion is continuing: The focus on 'meaning construction', which began with the theory of blending, highlights emergent, online effects rather than underlying mappings. Cognitive Linguistics is integrating the evolutionary perspective, which links up individual and population-based features of language. The empirical obligations incurred by this expansion have led to greatly increased attention to corpus and experimental methods, especially in relation to sociolinguistic and language acquisition research. The book describes this development and goes on to discuss the foundational challenge that it creates for Cognitive Linguistics as it begins to cover issues that are also central to types of discourse analysis focusing on social processes of determination. The book argues for a synthesis based on a renewed Cognitive Linguistics, which can accommodate everything from bodily grounding to deconstructible floating signifiers in an integrated complete picture, which also covers the roles of arbitrariness and structure.

Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671657130

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Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.

Author : Vilfredo Pareto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Socialization
ISBN : MINN:31951001499051X

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Author : Paul Thagard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190686406

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Mind-Society by Paul Thagard Pdf

How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering, and business). Social change emerges from interacting social and mental mechanisms. Many economists and political scientists assume that individuals make rational choices, despite the abundance of evidence that people frequently succumb to thinking errors such as motivated inference. Much of sociology and anthropology is taken over with postmodernist assumptions that everything is constructed on the basis of social relations such as power, with no inkling that these relations are mediated by how people think about each other. Mind-Society displays the interdependence of the cognitive and social sciences by describing the interconnections among mental and social mechanisms, which interact to generate social changes ranging from marriage patterns to wars. Validation comes from detailed studies of important social changes, from norms about romantic relationships to economic practices, political institutions, religious customs, and international relations. This book belongs to a trio that includes Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.

Author : Wolfgang Teubert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487467

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Meaning, Discourse and Society by Wolfgang Teubert Pdf

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

Author : V. Pareto
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : History
ISBN : 9785872243489

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Author : L. S. Vygotsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674076693

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Mind in Society by L. S. Vygotsky Pdf

The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky’s important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English. The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotsky’s relevance to modern psychological thought.

Author : George Herbert Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1020219804

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Mind, Self [and] Society by George Herbert Mead Pdf

Author : Christine Jourdan,Kevin Tuite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139452519

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Language, Culture, and Society by Christine Jourdan,Kevin Tuite Pdf

Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Author : George Herbert Mead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226112879

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Mind, Self & Society by George Herbert Mead Pdf

This foundational text of social psychology presents the most complete summation of Mead’s theory of symbolic interactionism. George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable, as they offer a rare synthesis of his ideas. This collection gets to the heart of Mead’s meditations on social psychology and social philosophy. With wry humor and shrewd reasoning, Mad teases out the genesis of the self and the nature of the mind.Included in this edition are an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, a revealing set of textual notes by Dan Huebner that detail the text’s origins, and a comprehensive bibliography of Mead’s other published writings.

Author : Paul Thagard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190686413

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Mind-Society by Paul Thagard Pdf

How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering, and business). Social change emerges from interacting social and mental mechanisms. Many economists and political scientists assume that individuals make rational choices, despite the abundance of evidence that people frequently succumb to thinking errors such as motivated inference. Much of sociology and anthropology is taken over with postmodernist assumptions that everything is constructed on the basis of social relations such as power, with no inkling that these relations are mediated by how people think about each other. Mind-Society displays the interdependence of the cognitive and social sciences by describing the interconnections among mental and social mechanisms, which interact to generate social changes ranging from marriage patterns to wars. Validation comes from detailed studies of important social changes, from norms about romantic relationships to economic practices, political institutions, religious customs, and international relations. This book belongs to a trio that includes Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.

Author : Susan F. Chipman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199842193

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science by Susan F. Chipman Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science emphasizes the research and theory most central to modern cognitive science: computational theories of complex human cognition. Additional facets of cognitive science are discussed in the handbook's introductory chapter.

Author : Naomi Quinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319936741

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Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology by Naomi Quinn Pdf

This edited volume provides a long-overdue synthesis of the current directions in culture theory and represents some of the very best in ongoing research. Here, culture theory is rendered as a jigsaw puzzle: the book identifies where current research fits together, the as yet missing pieces, and the straight edges that frame the bigger picture. These framing ideas are two: Roy D’Andrade’s concept of lifeworlds—adapted from phenomenology yet groundbreaking in its own right—and new thinking about internalization, a concept much used in anthropology but routinely left unpacked. At its heart, this book is an incisive, insightful collection of contributions which will surely guide and support those who seek to further the study of culture.

Author : Prafulla Kumar Mohapatra
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Applied ethics
ISBN : 8180695239

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Ethics and society by Prafulla Kumar Mohapatra Pdf

Author : Matza, David
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412843607

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Becoming Deviant by Matza, David Pdf