Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language /
Danesi, Marcel, 1946-
Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language / Marcel Danesi. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations. - Advances in semiotics . - Advances in semiotics. .
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The origin of language is one of the deep mysteries of human existence. Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, Marcel Danesi fashions a persuasive, original account of the evolution and development of language. Seeking to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech, he takes Vico's insight that mind, culture, and language evolved from the uniquely human faculty known as fantasia ("the imagination") and sketches a "primal scene" of compelling interest. Danesi identifies metaphor, the feature of mind that transforms iconic, perceptual thinking into conceptual thinking, as the crucial event in the Vichian scenario. The description of this scenario forms the core of Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language. Danesi then evaluates the Vichian reconstruction of the origin of language in light of contemporary research in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences and with competing theories.
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058520294X 9780585202945 9780253113702 0253113709
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 --Et l'origine de la langue.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Language and languages--Origin.
Metaphor.
Langage et langues--Origines.
M�etaphore.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Metaphor.
Language and languages--Origin.
Langage et langues--Origines.
M�etaphore.
Language and languages--Origin.
Metaphor.
Taalgenese.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P116 / .D36 1993eb
195
Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language / Marcel Danesi. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations. - Advances in semiotics . - Advances in semiotics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Use copy
The origin of language is one of the deep mysteries of human existence. Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, Marcel Danesi fashions a persuasive, original account of the evolution and development of language. Seeking to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech, he takes Vico's insight that mind, culture, and language evolved from the uniquely human faculty known as fantasia ("the imagination") and sketches a "primal scene" of compelling interest. Danesi identifies metaphor, the feature of mind that transforms iconic, perceptual thinking into conceptual thinking, as the crucial event in the Vichian scenario. The description of this scenario forms the core of Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language. Danesi then evaluates the Vichian reconstruction of the origin of language in light of contemporary research in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences and with competing theories.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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
English.
058520294X 9780585202945 9780253113702 0253113709
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 --Et l'origine de la langue.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Language and languages--Origin.
Metaphor.
Langage et langues--Origines.
M�etaphore.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Metaphor.
Language and languages--Origin.
Langage et langues--Origines.
M�etaphore.
Language and languages--Origin.
Metaphor.
Taalgenese.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P116 / .D36 1993eb
195