Abstract
No abstract - but a conclusion:
"Taking my point of departure in classical embodiment theories stemming from the phenomenological tradition, I have discussed tertiary embodiment, characteristic of certain types of signs, such as pictures and writing, as a particular stage of development in the phylogeny and ontogeny of human beings. In so doing, I have singled out the sign function as an indirect access to signification in opposition to the more direct experience of signification in the Lifeworld, also known as the world of ecological physics. Indeed, another purpose of the essay has been to outline the way in which the semiotic function, the general faculty for conceiving signs, emerges out of one kind of embodiment and constitutes a requirement for attaining another one."
"Taking my point of departure in classical embodiment theories stemming from the phenomenological tradition, I have discussed tertiary embodiment, characteristic of certain types of signs, such as pictures and writing, as a particular stage of development in the phylogeny and ontogeny of human beings. In so doing, I have singled out the sign function as an indirect access to signification in opposition to the more direct experience of signification in the Lifeworld, also known as the world of ecological physics. Indeed, another purpose of the essay has been to outline the way in which the semiotic function, the general faculty for conceiving signs, emerges out of one kind of embodiment and constitutes a requirement for attaining another one."
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Embodiment in Cognition and Culture |
| Editors | John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele, Dirk Westerkamp |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Pages | 27-56 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978 90 272 5207 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Languages and Literature
Free keywords
- reification
- body
- semiotics
- meaning
- embodiment
- sign
- writing
- picture