Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science : : Philosophy and Writing / / ed. by Marcel Danesi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Cotrupi, Nella,; D\x27Alfonso, Aldo,; Danesi, Marcel,; Di Pietro, Robert J.,; Guardiani, Francesco,; Makkai, Adam,; Makolkin, Anna,; Nuessel, Frank,; O\x27Neill, John,; Sebeok, Thomas A.,; Tagliacozzo, Giorgio,; Titone, Renzo,; Verene, Donald Phillip,; Verna, Anthony,; Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana,; Weir, Lorraine,
• HerausgeberIn: Danesi, Marcel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 119
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective
• Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime
• Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective
• Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective
• Vico and second language acquisition
• Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico
• Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective
• Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign
• Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics
• The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic?
• From Vico to Cassirer to Langer
• The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies
• From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective
• Imaginative universals
• An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences
• Vico and theories of change in language
• Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce
• A selected bibliography of recent Anglo- American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences
• Index