From attention to meaning: explorations in semiotics, linguistics, and rhetoric
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1. Verfasser: Oakley, Todd (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2014
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements 9; Attention: A foreword 11; Introduction 17; A Collector's Conceit 17; Prologue: Attention, Meaning, and Knowledge Representation 19; Synopsis 21; Chapter 1: The Greater Attention System and the Cognitive Sciences 25; Attention 25; The Greater Attention System: An Overview 26; The Signal System 27; The Selection System 29; The Interpersonal System 33; Summary 36; The Cognitive Psychology and Neurophysiology of Attention 37; A Cognitive Psychology of Attention: Protocols, Models, Theories, Paradigms 38; A Neurophysiology of Attention 46
Related Topics in Cognitive Science: Consciousness, Memory, Categorization, Affect 52Consciousness 52; Memory 53; Categorization 56; Affect: Values and Emotions 58; Relevant Concepts 61; Meaning 61; Imagery and Schemas 62; Mental Models 64; Mental Spaces 66; Culture and Cognition 72; Chapter Summary 75; Chapter 2: Attention and Semiotics 77; Semiotics 77; What is Semiotics? 77; Five Theoretical Perspectives: Overview and Assessment 78; The Greater Attention System as Semiotic 83; Three Dimensions of the Sign: Presentation, Representation, Interpretation 83; Nine Functions of the Sign 86
Frick's Conceit and the Attention Semiotic 90Synopsis: Signs and the Greater Attention System 93; Brief Case Studies in the Semiotics of Attention (with special emphasis on conceptual blending) 94; Debating Kant 94; Kant and the Graduate Student 96; Melville's Mincer: Presentation as Symbolization 100; Landing an MD-80 Aircraft: Distributed Attention 102; Extended Case Study: Auto-Ethnography of the Cleveland Zoo's Rainforest Exhibit 106; Attention Structures of the Cleveland Rainforest Exhibit 106; Agenda 109; A Guided Tour of the Rainforest Exhibit 109; The Architecture of Attention 111
Infelicitous Apologies and Felicitous Human Scale Reasoning in the Rainforest Exhibit 115Chapter Summary 123; Chapter 3: Attention in Language and Discourse 125; Language 125; The Greater Attention System and Language 127; The Signal System 128; The Selection System 136; The Interpersonal System 151; Overview 156; Case Studies in Language and Discourse 159; Fictivity and Aesthetic Perception 160; The Prosody of Attention 178; Chapter Summary 187; Chapter 4: Attention and Rhetoric 189; Three Perspectives 191; Aristotle 191; Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: Rhetorical Presence 193
Burke: Dramatic Identification 198Summary 201; Case Studies 202; The Rhetoric of Force and Counterforce 203; Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Construal 207; Force Dynamic Analysis of the Preface to Bush's National Security Strategy 208; The Rhetoric of Compliance: The Census 2000 Campaign 218; Chapter Summary 230; Concluding Remarks 233; References 235; Appendix A 245; Preface to National Security Strategy of the United States of America 245; Appendix B 249; Author Index 259; Subject Index 261
Of all the tasks you perform, perhaps none is more consequential for the performance of other tasks than paying attention. When you attend, you perceive. When you attend and perceive, you remember. When you attend, perceive, and remember, you learn. When you learn, you have the option of acting deliberately. Perceiving, thinking, learning, deciding, and acting require the constant adjustment of the attention system. The author proposes a model of the greater attention system as comprising three distinct but interdependent sub-systems: the signal system, the selection system, and the interperso
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