The article provides an overview of ongoing research and key characteristics of Cognitive Semiotics, an emerging field dedicated to the “transdiciplinary study of meaning”, involving above all researchers from semiotics, linguistics, developmental and comparative psychology and philosophy. The combination of the following features distinguish it from other synthetic approaches: (a) integration ...

10,000 words on a single picture, and a similar Japanese proverb devalues this to only 100 words. In most languages the current consensus seems to be that a picture is worth 1000 words. Whatever the true worth in words a good picture is capable of conveying (sometimes quite complex) meaning clearly and without the need for language. Show a picture of an elephant to speakers of two different lan...

Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...

This study was inspired by VanPatten and Uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and Mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. An interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

This paper describes a semantics for modal terms such as can and may that is intended to model the mental representation of their meaning. The basic assumption of the theory is that the evaluation of a modal assertion involves an attempted mental construction of a specified alternative to a given situation rather than the separate evaluation of each member of a set of possible alternatives as w...

The German mathematician and one of the founding fathers of modern logic, Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), was the first to clearly realize that semantics has little to do with psychology, and that it could be usefully explicated in mathematical terms (see Dummett, 1973; 1981). His depsychologization of semantics followed from his depsychologization of logic. Frege understood how crucial it was for t...

This paper is devoted to a problem of lexical semantics, discussing various aspects gravitating around two distinct meanings of the terms “predicative” and/or “predicational” in some important and/or of particular interest linguistic approaches, trying to build a unitary mosaic image from “rocks” representing apparently disconnected examined viewpoints on the issue. The first meaning of the two...

This research is entitled “Psychological Implications in Poetic Images of the Collection of: A Linguistic Study”. study discusses types meaning. Generally, meaning categorized into two parts: semantic and pragmatic Besides, it also interpretations artistic phenomena psychological implications shows their implications. Meaning generally a multidisciplinary sophisticated concept; hence has been d...