From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics

Body, Language and Mind: Embodiment

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 85-128

  Sonesson, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body; Ecology; Embodiment; Evolution; Lifeworld; Memory; Phenomenology; Picture; Semiotic function; Semiotics; Sign

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981328500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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