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Editorial Preface

Editorial Preface This issue presents new and highly original texts from the current global workshop of poetics — a natural meeting place for semiotic studies of meaning and cognitive studies of mind. Literature is a privileged 'window' into the mind, if we follow the baroque imagery of architecture as an articulation of mind, body, and world. Conversely, a certain knowledge on the workings of the mind, its semio-cognitive processes, including its linguistic aspects, is a prerequisite of literary reading and interpretation. The way in which things make sense to our mind, in so far as we can know it, sheds light on literature — and poetry may be a primordial way to use language. Cognitive poetics is a young discipline, but it has a large and rich set of ancestors, including Gestalt psychology, neuroscience, modern linguistics from semiology, formalism and structuralism to cognitive semantics, and modern philosophy of embodiment from phenomenology and theories of mind to contemporary semiotics. The exploration of the human world of meaning and mind is manifold; poetry itself may be the semio-cognitive exploration that every human intimately engages in every day. As the non-literary physician Sigmund Freud remarked, after having sketched out his meta-psychology, "if you wish to know more, go to literature". In this bouquet of contributions, we discuss the theory (L. Brandt), the evolution (C. Collins), the methodology (R. Tsur), and the aesthetic and phenomenological perspectives of cognitive approaches to literature, especially poetry (H. Ross, M. Freeman, F. Kjorup, J. Hobbs & P. Aa. Brandt). We are proud to offer articles by pioneers of the field, and happy to bring fresh insights and controversial ideas to the reader's table. Two articles are specimens from forthcoming books (T. Deacon, R. Tsur), specially readied for this issue. Reuven Tsur's article is a critical discussion of Eve Sweetser's analysis of Rostand's verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac. Terrence Deacon's contribution has a more general topic and is a continuation of his article on theory of information presented in our first issue (Fall 2007). The editors are deeply thankful to the contributors from near and far who have made this volume possible. For information on upcoming issues, calls for submissions, etc., please visit our website at http:/ / www.cognitivesemiotics.com. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

Editorial Preface

Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 2 (s1): 1 – Mar 1, 2008
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This issue presents new and highly original texts from the current global workshop of poetics — a natural meeting place for semiotic studies of meaning and cognitive studies of mind. Literature is a privileged 'window' into the mind, if we follow the baroque imagery of architecture as an articulation of mind, body, and world. Conversely, a certain knowledge on the workings of the mind, its semio-cognitive processes, including its linguistic aspects, is a prerequisite of literary reading and interpretation. The way in which things make sense to our mind, in so far as we can know it, sheds light on literature — and poetry may be a primordial way to use language. Cognitive poetics is a young discipline, but it has a large and rich set of ancestors, including Gestalt psychology, neuroscience, modern linguistics from semiology, formalism and structuralism to cognitive semantics, and modern philosophy of embodiment from phenomenology and theories of mind to contemporary semiotics. The exploration of the human world of meaning and mind is manifold; poetry itself may be the semio-cognitive exploration that every human intimately engages in every day. As the non-literary physician Sigmund Freud remarked, after having sketched out his meta-psychology, "if you wish to know more, go to literature". In this bouquet of contributions, we discuss the theory (L. Brandt), the evolution (C. Collins), the methodology (R. Tsur), and the aesthetic and phenomenological perspectives of cognitive approaches to literature, especially poetry (H. Ross, M. Freeman, F. Kjorup, J. Hobbs & P. Aa. Brandt). We are proud to offer articles by pioneers of the field, and happy to bring fresh insights and controversial ideas to the reader's table. Two articles are specimens from forthcoming books (T. Deacon, R. Tsur), specially readied for this issue. Reuven Tsur's article is a critical discussion of Eve Sweetser's analysis of Rostand's verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac. Terrence Deacon's contribution has a more general topic and is a continuation of his article on theory of information presented in our first issue (Fall 2007). The editors are deeply thankful to the contributors from near and far who have made this volume possible. For information on upcoming issues, calls for submissions, etc., please visit our website at http:/ / www.cognitivesemiotics.com.

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