Surprise At The Intersection Of Phenomenology And Linguistics

Author : Natalie Depraz,Agnès Celle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262424

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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics by Natalie Depraz,Agnès Celle Pdf

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney; it is reduced to a break in cognition by cognitivists (Dennett). Only recently was it broached in linguistics, with a focus on lexico-syntactic categories. As for the expression of surprise, it has been studied in connection with evidentiality in languages that encode surprise morphosyntactically. However, how surprise is encoded in languages that lack an evidential morphosyntactic system has been largely unexplored. This book provides new insights into the dynamics of surprise based on a heuristic hypothesis tested against the investigation of time, language and emotion. It is intended to arouse the interest of a multidisciplinary audience keen on crossing the disciplinary borders of phenomenology, cognitive sciences, and pragmatics. The theoretical approaches adopted in this collection of articles rely on experiments and corpus data. They advance knowledge by building on robust empirical results coming from psychology, microphenomenology, linguistics and physiology.

Author : Natalie Depraz,Anthony J. Steinbock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319986579

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Surprise: An Emotion? by Natalie Depraz,Anthony J. Steinbock Pdf

This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries. The main question it examines is whether surprise is an emotion. It uses two main theoretical frameworks to do so: psychology, in which surprise is commonly considered a primary emotion, and philosophy, in which surprise is related to passions as opposed to reason. The book explores whether these views on surprise are satisfying or sufficient. It looks at the extent to which surprise is also a cognitive phenomenon and primitively embedded in language, and the way in which surprise is connected to personhood, the interpersonal, and moral emotions. Many philosophers of different traditions, a number of experimental studies conducted over the last decades, recent works in linguistics, and ancestral wisdom testimonies refer to surprise as a crucial experience of both rupture and openness in bodily and inner life. However, surprise is a theme that has not been dealt with directly and systematically in philosophy, in the sciences, in linguistics, or in spiritual traditions. This volume accomplishes just that.

Author : Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265081

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Expressing and Describing Surprise by Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari Pdf

Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in psychological approaches and the effects of surprise on language. This cross-disciplinary volume aims to bridge the gap between emotion, cognition and language by bringing together nine contributions on surprise from different backgrounds – psychology, human-agent interaction, linguistics. Using different methods at different levels of analysis, all contributors concur in defining surprise as a cognitive operation and as a component of emotion rather than as a pure emotion. Surprise results from expectations not being met and is therefore related to epistemicity. Linguistically, there does not exist an unequivocal marker of surprise. Surprise may be either described by surprise lexemes, which are often associated with figurative language, or it may be expressed by grammatical and syntactic constructions. Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015)

Author : Michael Rousell, PhD
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781538152423

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The Power of Surprise by Michael Rousell, PhD Pdf

Rousell examines the rich and complex nuances of the science of surprise and shows us how we can use it strategically to enrich lives. Random events transform us. After studying formative events, moments that define us, for over three decades, Michael Rousell discovered that most of them took place during a spark of surprise. This breakthrough launched a fascinating journey from neuroscience to stand-up comedy. Rousell draws on research from a wide variety of brain science disciplines (cognition, motivation, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, persuasion, evolution, and learning), then examines those who already use surprise strategically (comedians, film directors, entertainers, magicians, and novelists). This examination illustrates the hidden, yet critical features inherent in surprise, while demystifying the complexities. Surprise evolved as a mechanism to instantly change our beliefs. Rousell shows how surprising events produce invisible influence because they open a window to spontaneous belief change with no warning or conscious awareness. You’ll see how seemingly minor features of surprise create profound differences and can be used to strategically enrich lives, create positive mindsets, and maximize influence.

Author : Andreas Trotzke,Xavier Villalba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192644640

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Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks by Andreas Trotzke,Xavier Villalba Pdf

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. Research on the language-emotion interface has to date concentrated primarily on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via language, with semantic and pragmatic studies dominating the field. The chapters in this book, in contrast, bring together work from different linguistic frameworks: generative syntax, functional and usage-based linguistics, formal semantics and pragmatics, and experimental phonology. The volume contributes to the growing field of research that explores the interaction between linguistic expressions and the 'expressive dimension' of language, and will be of interest to linguists from a range of theoretical backgrounds who are interested in the language-emotion interface.

Author : Christopher Gutland,Wenjing Cai,Anthony Vincent Fernandez
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889669257

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Integrating Philosophical and Scientific Approaches in Consciousness Research by Christopher Gutland,Wenjing Cai,Anthony Vincent Fernandez Pdf

Author : Louis Schreel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350344891

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Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime by Louis Schreel Pdf

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life? In this book, Louis Schreel shows how Gilles Deleuze's life-long engagement with the Kantian sublime grappled with just this question. Its core argument centres on Deleuze's understanding of the sublime in terms of psychic individuation – a creative, self-organizing process that animates cognitive systems from within. Exploring Deleuze's transcendental philosophy through central concepts of self-organization, psychic individuation, passibility and infinity, this book shows how a new notion of the sublime emerges in a timely and novel way. In this way, Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime opens up an innovative perspective on transcendental philosophy, shedding new light on Deleuze's transcendental empiricism both in relation to Kant and to contemporary cognitive science. Engagement with previously untranslated writings from thinkers including Jean Petitot, Gilbert Simondon, Henri Maldiney and Erwin Straus adds further breadth to the development of Deleuze's ideas on the sublime in this systematic study.

Author : Johannes Kleiner
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832538517

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Rising Stars In: Consciousness Research 2021 by Johannes Kleiner Pdf

Author : Brian Kemple
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505171

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The Intersection of Semiotics and Phenomenology by Brian Kemple Pdf

Many contemporary explanations of conscious human experience, relying either upon neuroscience or appealing to a spiritual soul, fail to provide a complete and coherent theory. These explanations, the author argues, fall short because the underlying explanatory constituent for all experience are not entities, such as the brain or a spiritual soul, but rather relation and the unique way in which human beings form relations. This alternative frontier is developed through examining the phenomenological method of Martin Heidegger and the semiotic theory of Charles S. Peirce. While both of these thinkers independently provide great insight into the difficulty of accounting for human experience, this volume brings these insights into a new complementary synthesis. This synthesis opens new doors for understanding all aspects of conscious human experience, not just those that can be quantified, and without appealing to a mysterious spiritual principle.

Author : Vlad Petre Glăveanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1812 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030909130

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible by Vlad Petre Glăveanu Pdf

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible represents a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners interested in an emerging multidisciplinary area within psychology and the social sciences: the study of how we engage with and cultivate the possible within self, society and culture. Far from being opposed either to the actual or the real, the possible engages with concrete facts and experiences, with the result of transforming them. This encyclopedia examines the notion of the possible and the concepts associated with it from standpoints within psychology, philosophy, sociology, neuroscience and logic, as well as multidisciplinary fields of research including anticipation studies, future studies, complexity theory and creativity research. Presenting multiple perspectives on the possible, the authors consider the distinct social, cultural and psychological processes - e.g., imagination, counterfactual thinking, wonder, play, inspiration, and many others - that define our engagement with new possibilities in domains as diverse as the arts, design and business.

Author : Antoine Culioli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276537

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Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory by Antoine Culioli Pdf

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to provide the reader with as obstacle-free a path as one can clear to a theory that requires, and indeed commands, a very close, attentive reading. As an additional aid to understand Culioli's argument, footnotes throughout the work show similarities and differences with the work of the cognitive linguist Ronald W. Langacker.

Author : Helena De Preester
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789027272003

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Moving Imagination by Helena De Preester Pdf

This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in watching a film, attending a dance or theatre performance, looking at paintings or drawings, and listening to music is explored from a diversity of perspectives. This volume is intended for both the specialist and non-specialist in the fields of art, philosophy and cognitive science, and testifies to the burgeoning interest for the moving and gesturing body, not only in the creation but also in the perception of works of art. Imagination is tied to our capacity to silently resonate with the way a work of art has been or is created.

Author : Natalie Depraz,Francisco J. Varela,Pierre Vermersch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027251633

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On Becoming Aware by Natalie Depraz,Francisco J. Varela,Pierre Vermersch Pdf

This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a priori 'new theory' of experience but instead they describe a concrete activity: how we examine what we live through, how we become aware of our own mental life. The range of experiences of which we can become aware is vast: all the normal dimensions of human life (perception, motion, memory, imagination, speech, everyday social interactions), cognitive events that can be precisely defined as tasks in laboratory experiments (e.g., a protocol for visual attention), but also manifestations of mental life more fraught with meaning (dreaming, intense emotions, social tensions, altered states of consciousness). The central assertion in this work is that this immanent ability is habitually ignored or at best practiced unsystematically, that is to say, blindly. Exploring human experience amounts to developing and cultivating this basic ability through specific training. Only a hands-on, non-dogmatic approach can lead to progress, and that is what animates this book. (Series B)

Author : Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027294616

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Consciousness & Emotion by Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton Pdf

The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues: I. Emotional influences on perception and thought II. Agency and choice III. Agency and moral value

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253203988

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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco Pdf

"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement