20.2570, Books: Ling Theories/Pragmatics/Semantics: Wildgen, Barend van (Eds)

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Date: 16-Jul-2009
From: Christian Bieri < publicity at peterlang.com >
Subject: Metarepresentation, Self-Organization and Art: Wildgen, Barend
van (Eds)

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Subject: Metarepresentation, Self-Organization and Art: Wildgen, Barend van (Eds)

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Title: Metarepresentation, Self-Organization and Art 
Series Title: European Semiotics / Sémiotique Européenne. Vol. 9  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=11684 

Editor: Wolfgang Wildgen
Editor: Heusden Barend van

Paperback: ISBN:  9783039116843 Pages: 298 Price: U.S. $ 78.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783039116843 Pages: 298 Price: U.K. £ 50.90
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Abstract:

This book is about the interrelationship between nature, semiosis, 
metarepresentation and (self-)consciousness, and the role played by 
metarepresentation in evolution. 

Representations must have emerged via self-organization from non-
representational systems (found in physics, chemistry and biology). Major 
steps have been the evolution of molecules, macromolecules, life, and 
finally cultural and symbolic systems. Representations and signs are 
therefore parts of a huge, possibly branching 'ladder of beings'. 
Metarepresentations - images representing images, language about language 
and language-use, thoughts about thoughts - constitute a fascinating theme 
within such diverse areas of research as philosophy, literature, theology, 
anthropology and history, neuroscience, psychology and linguistics. 
The contributions to this book reflect this variety of different, but often 
interrelated perspectives on metarepresentation. They also exemplify the 
difficulties of a truly interdisciplinary discourse and show how one may start 
such a discourse in the field of semiotics, understood as a meta-discipline 
which brings together all scientific enterprises dealing with human mind and 
human culture. 

Contents: 

Barend Van Heusden/Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction - 
Rik Peters: Torturing the Torturer, Interpretation of Evidence as 
Metarepresentation - 
Marcel Bax: Enthymematic Reasoning as a Meaning-making Strategy in 
Spoken Discourse - 
Peiling Cui: Metarepresentation in Linguistic Jokes - 
Michael Leyton: The Mathematical Structure of Pain - 
Todd Oakley/Per Aage Brandt: Hypotyposis: Metarepresentation, Mind-
Reading, and Fictive Interaction - 
John Bateman: Film and Representation: Making Filmic Meaning - 
Ole Kühl: Musical Semantics: A Very Brief Introduction - 
Wolfgang Wildgen: Metarepresentation, Self-organization and Self-reference 
in the Visual Arts - 
Svend Østergaard: Imitation, Mirror Neurons, and Meta-cognition - 
Ulf Harendarski: A Pragmaticistic View on Metarepresentative Semiosis 
András Kertész/Csilla Rákosi: On the Metascientific Representation of 
Inconsistency in Linguistic Theories - 
Peter Jörg Plath: Self-Organization and Identity - Links between Theories? - 
Boris Schapiro/Hella Schapiro: Metarepresentations and Paradigms. 

The Editors: 

Wolfgang Wildgen (1944) is professor of linguistics at the University of 
Bremen. His major books include: Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics (1982); 
Process, Image, and Meaning (1994); De la grammaire au discours (1999); 
The Evolution of Human Language (2004); Kognitive Grammatik (2008). He 
is the author of articles and book chapters.
Barend van Heusden (1957) is reader in semiotics of culture at the University 
of Groningen (The Netherlands) and has published widely on literary theory, 
semiotics of culture, cultural evolution, and on arts in culture. He is at 
present the coordinator of a national research project on culture education 
curriculum development. 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)

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