This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to
reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of
biology and culture.
Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by
external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological
dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into
discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections
proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from
world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary
divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the
empirical and theoretical levels. Its various chapters chart the
foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal
dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal
factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by
faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals.
This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students
and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe
experience in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics,
philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary
biology.