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Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition

Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition

Krämer, Sybille
Ljungberg, Christina

Hardcover

Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [Scc], Book 17

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 1501511696
ISBN13: 9781501511691
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 11 2016
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the intermediary world of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in thought experiments and/or processes, manifested in forms as divers as notes, tables, schemata, graphs, drawings and maps. Despite their phenomenological and structural-functional differences, these forms of representation share a number of important attributes and epistemic functions. Combining aspects of linguistic and pictorial symbolism, diagrams go beyond the traditional distinction between language and image. They do not only represent, yet intervene in what is represented. Their spatiality, materiality and operativity establish a dynamic tool to exteriorize thinking, thus contributing to the idea of the extended mind. They foster imagination and problem solving, facilitate orientation in knowledge spaces and the discovery of unsuspected relationships.

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