Musical Sense-Making and the Concept of Affordance: An Ecosemiotic and Experiential Approach

Biosemiotics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 391-409

  Reybrouck, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affordance; Biosemiotics; Circularity; Ecology; Embodied and experiential cognition; Functional tone; Interpretant; Pragmatism; Sense making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870435579     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-012-9144-6     Document Type: Article

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