Language and brain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction 1
3. PART I Evolution and biosemiosis
4. Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation 15
5. Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics 25
6. Opposition at the roots of semiosis 37
7. Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage 61
8. PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis
9. The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view 103
10. The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm 121
11. Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks 139
12. Analysis of a human releasing mechanism 151
13. Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play 205
14. Infant semiosis 219
15. PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny
16. Language and the origin of semiosis 255
17. Language evolution: A Darwinian process 269
18. Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics 293
19. Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically 309
20. The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding 325
21. Language and brain 339
22. INTERCHAPTER
23. Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature 367
24. PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis
25. Constants in 40,000 years of art 385
26. Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior 405
27. Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots 419
28. Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages 439
29. Writing, inscription, and text 455
30. PART V Appendix
31. List of contributors 481
32. Index of names 487
33. Index of subjects 497