| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; PART I: MEANING AND DISCOURSE; PART II: AGENCY, OTHERNESS, AND THE SELF; PART III: CONSCIOUSNESS; PART IV: METAPHOR AND SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; Appendixes; References; Subject Index; Index of Names |
| Summary |
In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention. This book explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. The book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies. These issues of agency and individuation are explored in relation to infant semiosis, as well as in relation to children's symbolic play. Thibault looks at the importance of the self-referential moral conscience in relation to the interpersonal dimension of all acts of meaning-making. This conscience is also connected to the development of a self-referential viewpoint which the book argues is connected to the ecosocial semiotic systems of thinking about consciousness as a complex system operating on many different levels. The author discusses and evaluates the work of linguists, psychologists, biologists, semioticians, and sociologists such as Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, J.J. Gibson, M.A.K. Halliday, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget and Stanley Salthe, to develop a new theory of agency and consciousness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Semiotics -- Psychological aspects
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Semiotics -- Social aspects
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Consciousness.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Discourse analysis
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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REFERENCE -- Word Lists.
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Consciousness
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Discourse analysis
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Psycholinguistics
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Semiotics -- Psychological aspects
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Semiotics -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005045413 |
| ISBN |
9781847142665 |
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1847142664 |
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1281294373 |
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9781281294371 |
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