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Linguistic semiotics
Linguistics bibliography
Linguistic semiotics Linguistic analyses of meaning lead, in many ways, to an approach shared (or appropriated) by anthropology. Basically, the questions are posed, "What is meaning?" and "How does a word (or image) convey meaning?" (Indeed, some linguistics experts have asked, "How does a sound have significance?" but that is way beyond the venue of this bibliography.)
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Bibliography:
- Farley, Edward. Deep Symbols: Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation. Valley Forge: Trinity Press, 1996. P99.S62F37 1996.
- Foster, Mary LeCron, and Botscharow, Lucy Jayne, eds. The Life of Symbols. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. 318 pp.
P99.L53 1990.
- Contents: "The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Symbolizing," Catherine M. Borchert and Adrienne L. Zihlman; "The Origin of counting: A Rethinking of Upright Posture," Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; "Paleolithic Semiotics: Behavioral Analogs to Speech in Acheuleuan Sites," Lucy Jayne Botscharow; "Red Ochre in the Paleolithic", Joseph Velo and Alice B. Kehoe; "Philosophy and the Corpse: Modes of Disposal and Their Cultural Correlates," Slawoy Szynkiewicz; "'Neolithic' Patterns of Face Representation: A Neuro-Evoilutionary Ecological Study," Anneliese A. Pontius; "Cognitive Cores and Flint Flakes," Robert L. Hall; "Corralling Life," Thomas F. Kehoe; "Representation of Movement in Upper Paleolithic Figurative Art," Germaine Prudhommeau; "Symbols and Sacred Images of Old Europe," Marija Gimbutas; "A Neolithic Sign System in Southeastern Europe," Shan M. M. Winn; 'The Birth and Life of Signs," Mary LeCron Foster. While this collection of essays cohere by the discipline of semiotics, several develop into excellent discussions of topics related directly to symbolism. In the introductory essay to the second section, "Persistence and Congruity," the editors' excessive use of the symbol of crossing the Rubicon (but they never capitalize), makes a reader wish Caesar had made his decision at the Po or Tiber instead. Using the concept of developmental stages would have presented the arguments more coherently, if less symbolically. Most of the essays are heavily dependent upon anthropological constructs and theory.
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