Author | Clarke, D. S. author |
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Title | Sign Levels [electronic resource] : Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents / by D. S. Clarke |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0011-6 |
Descript | XI, 260 p. online resource |
One. Three Ideals of Modern Philosophy -- 1.1 Simplicity and Certainty -- 1.2 Compositional Semantics -- 1.3 Simplicity and Comprehensiveness -- Two. The Methodology of Semiotic -- 2.1 Primitiveness and Sign Levels -- 2.2 Semiotic and Semiotics -- 2.3 Necessary and Contingent Features -- 2.4 The Language Archetype -- 2.5 Grades of Involvement -- Three. Signs and Learning Theories -- 3.1 Conditioned Reflex and Instrumental Learning -- 3.2 Behavioral and Teleological Reductions -- 3.3 Natsigns -- 3.4 Awareness of Associationist Learning -- 3.5 Proto-Natsigns and Panpsychism -- Four. Communicative Intent and Conventionality -- 4.1 Comsigns and Signals -- 4.2 Transactional and Iconic Aspects -- 4.3 Regularities and Conventions -- 4.4 Truth and Falsity -- Five. Proto-Language Sentences -- 5.1 Subjects and Predicates -- 5.2 Reference and Existence -- 5.3 Feature-Placing Sentences and Identification -- 5.4 Illocutionary Force and Avowals -- 5.5 Addresses -- 5.6 Frames and Semantic Fields -- Six. Natural Language Discourse -- 6.1 Linking Expressions -- 6.2 Reference, Meaning Transfer, and Fiction -- 6.3 Inferences and Propositions -- 6.4 Quotation and Interpretation -- 6.5 Identity -- Seven. Specialized Discourse -- 7.1 Writing and Institutional Specialization -- 7.2 Discourse Frames, Objects, and Existence -- 7.3 Discourse Relativity and Truth -- 7.4 Scientific Realism -- 7.5 Natural Kinds and Reference -- 7.6 Customs, Imperatives, and Laws -- Eight. Applications to Metaphysics -- 8.1 Philosophy and Metaphysics -- 8.2 Identity and Functionalist Theories -- 8.3 Beliefs and Persons -- 8.4 Sign Level Comparisons and Metaphysics -- Notes -- References