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Reinventing Structuralism: What Sign Relations Reveal about Consciousness

Reinventing Structuralism: What Sign Relations Reveal about Consciousness

Sangster, Rodney B.

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm], Book 264

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110303736
ISBN13: 9783110303735
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: May 21 2013
Pages: 229
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This monograph argues that the structuralist movement in linguistics was curtailed prematurely, before its contribution to cognitive science could be fully realized. Building upon Roman Jakobson's pioneering work on the nature of the linguistic sign, a new and detailed appreciation of the role of sign relations in the ultimate structuring of consciousness is presented, proving that the structural approach has as much to contribute today as any current cognitive theory. This study takes the view that the structure which linguistic signs themselves evince should be treated as an organic property of mind in its own right, as the device by which the ultimate differences in meaning in the human cognitive sphere are realized. Adherence to this principle assumes not only that the linguistic sign must be fundamentally monosemic, but also that the level of abstraction at which the relations between signs function must lie beyond the logical or rational level where polysemy is the rule.

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