{"title":"On the Mind of the Body: Spinoza, Descartes, and the Philosophy of Cognition","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350143333.ch-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143333.ch-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73229620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numbers Are Things in Time","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350143333.ch-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143333.ch-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81795912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Words in Language and Thought","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350143333.ch-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143333.ch-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81620297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Naidu, J. Zlatev, V. Duggirala, Joost van de Weijer, Simon Devylder, J. Blomberg
{"title":"Holistic spatial semantics and post-Talmian motion event typology: A case study of Thai and Telugu","authors":"V. Naidu, J. Zlatev, V. Duggirala, Joost van de Weijer, Simon Devylder, J. Blomberg","doi":"10.1515/cogsem-2018-2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2018-2002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Leonard Talmy’s influential binary motion event typology has encountered four main challenges: (a) additional language types; (b) extensive “type-internal” variation; (c) the role of other relevant form classes than verbs and “satellites;” and (d) alternative definitions of key semantic concepts like Motion, Path and Manner. After reviewing these issues, we show that the theory of Holistic Spatial Semantics provides analytical tools for their resolution. In support, we present an analysis of motion event descriptions by speakers of two languages that are troublesome for the original typology: Thai (Tai-Kadai) and Telugu (Dravidian), based on the Frog-story elicitation procedure. Despite some apparently similar typological features, the motion event descriptions in the two languages were found to be significantly different. The Telugu participants used very few verbs in contrast to extensive case marking to express Path and nominals to express Region and Landmark, while the Thai speakers relied largely on serial verbs for expressing Path and on prepositions for expressing Region. Combined with previous research in the field, our findings imply (at least) four different clusters of languages in motion event typology with Telugu and Thai as representative of two such clusters, languages like French and Spanish representing a third cluster, and Swedish and English a fourth. This also implies that many other languages like Italian, Bulgarian, and Basque will appear as “mixed languages,” positioned between two or three of these clusters.","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82511365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saussurian biolinguistics? Bouchard’s offline brain systems and Sign Theory of Language","authors":"Andrew Feeney","doi":"10.1515/cogsem-2018-2005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2018-2005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines Bouchard’s (e.g. Bouchard, D. 2010. From neurons to signs. In A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K. Smith (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International conference on the evolution of language, 42–49. Singapore: World Scientific; Bouchard, D. 2013. The nature and origin of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Bouchard, D. 2015. Brain readiness and the nature of language. Frontiers in Psychology 6.) discussion of the nature of language as ‘Saussurian Biolinguistics.’ A fundamental assumption of Bouchard, that of the existence of the Saussurian sign as a psychologically real entity in language, is disputed and an alternative understanding of the semiotic function of language is stressed. The consequences of Bouchard’s adoption of double interface signs for the relation of language to thought are also discussed and it is argued that such an approach leads inexorably to a form of linguistic relativity, and that positing a language independent ‘mentalese’ resolves this problem. The proposed model of language evolution, in which Bouchard is sceptical of protolanguage, is challenged, as are his claims regarding the properties of the language faculty. Bouchard presents a theory of the cognitive underpinning of language, ‘Offline Brain Systems,’ which is inadequate in accounting for the unique properties of human cognition. Instead, a more insightful and explanatorily comprehensive theory is presented here: dual-processing and the Representational Hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76791190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Still more on money: A response to Brandt","authors":"Todd Oakley","doi":"10.1515/cogsem-2018-2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2018-2004","url":null,"abstract":"I thank Per Aage Brandt (2017) for his commentary, which elaborates on the gift origins of money that was only elliptically alluded to in my own piece. I agree with Brandt’s genealogical argument that giving underlies the social categories of debtor and creditor. This indeed was the point of Graeber’s analysis of credit money, from which my own analysis draws heavily. Brandt’s discussion of the role of priests and the priestly class in the establishment of wealth and credit is well established. In fact, my own claims of the money-as-credit origins of what becomes sovereign (state) money systems is fairly well attested among historians of money, whether conscious of Mauss’s important discussion of gifts or not. Brandt is also correct in emphasizing the role of metallic adornments in the history of money. I caution, however, that it is easy to slip seamlessly from acknowledging the material necessity of monetary “inscriptions” to mistaking the expressive sign of money for its content — a mistake made repeatedly throughout history, with disastrous consequences (such as John Locke’s arguments in the late seventeenth century that send England into a financial tailspin) that persist to this day. This is in part due to the fact that money as a store-of-value has to have some form of materialization, but it is and has always been the case, even as far back as Mesopotamia, that the store-of-value resides in whatever records of debts and credits are being maintained and, importantly, WHO has the authority to create and edit the record. As Brandt points out, the priestly classes historically have been “chartered” with the rights to create and edit the ledger, using precious metals as the preferred medium (for physical and religious reasons). It is not a coincidence, then, that precious metals are a perduring material of the pecuniary interest, but it is also important to emphasize that the evidence for “banking” in the form of cuneiform ledgers appears long before evidence of its metallic avatars (see Werner 2005). I mention this in part to emphasize that a fiat-basis for money is not a consequence of metallic adornments, but rather metallic adornments as coined money are consequences of the fiat-based “banking” operations. Brandt’s account and his response, however, focuses on banking as a “mediational” activity, which dilutes his initial point of priest being the first bankers — banks, both historically and especially now, are institutions that either arrogate or are granted the power to create credit-money — their roles as “mediators” are socially salient constructions, which do not, in fact, capture their real operations. Banking as a function of goldsmithery in medieval England and the high prevalence of bankers from European Jewry (a profession for which they were legally consigned to in some instances) adds to the legend of the mediators as outsiders. But goldsmiths did not lend from their deposits in gold, rather they created “fictional deposits” in","PeriodicalId":52385,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Semiotics","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82397063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}