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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b4920135.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-186) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 190 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language.".
- catalog identifier "0253316073 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language.".
- catalog isPartOf "Advances in semiotics".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language.".
- catalog subject "195 20".
- catalog subject "Language and languages Origin.".
- catalog subject "Metaphor.".
- catalog subject "P116 .D36 1993".
- catalog subject "Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 Contributions in the origin of language.".
- catalog subject "Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.".
- catalog title "Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language / Marcel Danesi.".
- catalog type "text".