Morphologies of Meaning

Developed from structural semantics and Peircean philosophy through the morphogenetic views made possible by catastrophe theory, this volume engages in a constructive dialogue with cognitive linguistics, challenged by aesthetics and phenomenology. The resulting "cognitive semiotics" restates and discusses a wide range of fundamental problems related to contemporary research on perception, communication and subjectivity. A basic assumption of the 17 studies gathered in this book is that sign structures, however cultural, are grounded in natural patterns of both perceptual and pragmatic cognition, and that these patterns can be understood as dynamic schemes connecting forces and forms in stable ways that account for human actions, passions and the organisation of thought. Per Aage Brandt is the author of "L'Analyse Phrastique", "La Charpente Modale du Sens" and "Dynamiques du Sens".