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The extensions of man revisited: From primary to tertiary embodiment

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Author

Editor

  • John Michael Krois
  • Mats Rosengren
  • Angela Steidele
  • Dirk Westerkamp

Summary, in English

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."

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

27-56

Publication/Series

Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • reification
  • body
  • semiotics
  • meaning
  • embodiment
  • sign
  • writing
  • picture

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978 90 272 5207 4