TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danesi,Marcel
TI  - Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language
T2  - Advances in semiotics
SN  - 058520294X
AV  - P116 .D36 1993eb
U1  - 195 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Vico, Giambattista,
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Origines
KW  - M�etaphore
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - Taalgenese
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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