Papers by Per Aage Brandt
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Galáxia (São Paulo)
Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe commun... more Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s’inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l’inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la sémiosis? Dans cette note, nous avançons l’hypothèse que les sémioses gravitent autour d’une colonne allant du sens symbolico-performatif au sens iconico-libidinal, en passant par le sens cogito-épistémique lié au diagrammatisme. Ce système psycho-sémiotique organise la subjectivité en l’orientant vers la stratification écologique de la socio-sphère, qui passe par les mêmes instances sémiotiques, et vers l’inter-subjectivité communicante. L’occasion d’esquisser cette architecture psycho-sémiotique nous a été offerte par un article, mai...
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Galáxia (São Paulo)
Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe commun... more Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s’inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l’inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la sémiosis? Dans cette note, nous avançons l’hypothèse que les sémioses gravitent autour d’une colonne allant du sens symbolico-performatif au sens iconico-libidinal, en passant par le sens cogito-épistémique lié au diagrammatisme. Ce système psycho-sémiotique organise la subjectivité en l’orientant vers la stratification écologique de la socio-sphère, qui passe par les mêmes instances sémiotiques, et vers l’inter-subjectivité communicante. L’occasion d’esquisser cette architecture psycho-sémiotique nous a été offerte par un article, mai...
Domains and the Grounding of Meaning
dialnet.unirioja.es
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Galáxia (São Paulo)
Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe commun... more Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s’inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l’inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la sémiosis? Dans cette note, nous avançons l’hypothèse que les sémioses gravitent autour d’une colonne allant du sens symbolico-performatif au sens iconico-libidinal, en passant par le sens cogito-épistémique lié au diagrammatisme. Ce système psycho-sémiotique organise la subjectivité en l’orientant vers la stratification écologique de la socio-sphère, qui passe par les mêmes instances sémiotiques, et vers l’inter-subjectivité communicante. L’occasion d’esquisser cette architecture psycho-sémiotique nous a été offerte par un article, mai...
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Galáxia (São Paulo)
Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe commun... more Résumé Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s’inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l’inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la sémiosis? Dans cette note, nous avançons l’hypothèse que les sémioses gravitent autour d’une colonne allant du sens symbolico-performatif au sens iconico-libidinal, en passant par le sens cogito-épistémique lié au diagrammatisme. Ce système psycho-sémiotique organise la subjectivité en l’orientant vers la stratification écologique de la socio-sphère, qui passe par les mêmes instances sémiotiques, et vers l’inter-subjectivité communicante. L’occasion d’esquisser cette architecture psycho-sémiotique nous a été offerte par un article, mai...
Fortælling og sproghandling
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift
H.J.L. Jensen: “Christianity is not a ‘great narrative’. A structural note on a typology of unive... more H.J.L. Jensen: “Christianity is not a ‘great narrative’. A structural note on a typology of universal narratives” and P. Aa. Brandt: “Narrative and linguistic event. Comments on H.J.L. Jensen’s structural note”.Jean-François Lyotard has recently focused on the demise of the “great narratives”. But what is the nature of these narratives? Jensen’s note establishes an inventory of 8 types of “universal narratives” based on three axes: A) fall vs. erection, B) mythology vs. eschatology, and C) human vs. inhuman. The “great narrative” can be characterized as a “human-erective-eschatology” whereas the core of the Christian narrative is “inhuman-erective-mythology”. The 8 types can as well be coordinated or embedded in different ways.In his comment, Brandt reformulates Jensen’s conclusions into a semiotic, generative theory of narrative sequence which involves three levels: 1) Jensen’s (A) is related to the actantial level, 2) his (B) to the discursive level, and 3) his (C) to the enunciat...
The meaning and madness of money: A Semio-ecological analysis
Cognitive Semiotics
In this paper, I propose an overall model of the semantic and semiotic functions of money and cap... more In this paper, I propose an overall model of the semantic and semiotic functions of money and capital forms based on an ecological view of human activity and a theory of the origin of money (coined precious metals). The
More on money: A response to Oakley
Cognitive Semiotics
This note offers a summary of my account of money origins, a reflection on the use of blending mo... more This note offers a summary of my account of money origins, a reflection on the use of blending models, a reminder of Mauss’ important analysis of symbolic exchange, and again an insistence on ecology.
Seksualitet og tekstualitet/ Color Love 3
Poetik
Fiktivitet og semiologi
Poetik
Skriftens nulpunkt og den store blafren
Poetik
Diagrams and mental figuration: A semio-cognitive analysis
Semiotica
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it ... more We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagrammatic spaces to referential spaces in many ways, but basically through conceptual integration (blending). The mind blends topology and reference, which makes the topology unnoticeable; (3) That elementary diagrammatic graphs constitute a natural, phenomenological, spatiotemporal, figurative and dynamic but informal geometry in the embodied, thinking mind; (4) That diagrammatic signs are the active components of the abstract mental figuration in working memory that accompany perception and deliver the schematizing ideas which invest and connec...
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