Beyond Words
Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 259 pp., 30 b/w ill., 1 table
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Image, Metaphor, Symbol
- Living Images and Images We Live By What Does It Mean to Become a Living Image?
- Metaphor and Parable
- Metaphorical Eternity in Action The Nonlinguistic Realization of Death Metaphors in Iranian Culture
- The Art of Memory Politics: Visual Learning – Visual Resisting
- Text and Image
- The Iconic Surplus in Visual Arguments: Where Limitations and Potentials Coincide
- “More Than One Way at Once” Simultaneous Viewpoints in Text and Image
- Pictures, Experiential Learning and Phenomenology
- Do We Have a Visual Mind?
- Mental Imagery as a Sign System
- The Semiotics of Images: Photographic Conventions in Advertising
- Augmenting Conceptualization by Visual Knowledge Organization
- Images and the Challenge of the Internet
- Emoticons vs. Reaction-Gifs Non-Verbal Communication on the Internet from the Aspects of Visuality, Verbality and Time
- The Changing Appearance of Text and Images on Online Interfaces
- Visual Learning – Picture and Memory in Virtual Worlds
- Visual Rhetoric
- Ingenious Rhetoric: The Visual Secret of Rhetoricality
- Media Argumentation: A Novel Approach to Television Rhetoric and the Power of the News
- Paradoxical Representation of Tropes in Visual Rhetoric
- Visual Rhetoric Used in Mapping Natural Language Arguments
- Philosophy and the Limits of Language
- Seemings: Sensory and Intellectual
- Cognitive Function of Beauty and Ugliness in Light of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas
- Kant’s Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- The Thread and the Chain “Family Resemblances” and the Possibility of Non-Essentialist Conceptual Structure
- Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Image, Metaphor, Symbol
- Living Images and Images We Live By What Does It Mean to Become a Living Image?
- Metaphor and Parable
- Metaphorical Eternity in Action The Nonlinguistic Realization of Death Metaphors in Iranian Culture
- The Art of Memory Politics: Visual Learning – Visual Resisting
- Text and Image
- The Iconic Surplus in Visual Arguments: Where Limitations and Potentials Coincide
- “More Than One Way at Once” Simultaneous Viewpoints in Text and Image
- Pictures, Experiential Learning and Phenomenology
- Do We Have a Visual Mind?
- Mental Imagery as a Sign System
- The Semiotics of Images: Photographic Conventions in Advertising
- Augmenting Conceptualization by Visual Knowledge Organization
- Images and the Challenge of the Internet
- Emoticons vs. Reaction-Gifs Non-Verbal Communication on the Internet from the Aspects of Visuality, Verbality and Time
- The Changing Appearance of Text and Images on Online Interfaces
- Visual Learning – Picture and Memory in Virtual Worlds
- Visual Rhetoric
- Ingenious Rhetoric: The Visual Secret of Rhetoricality
- Media Argumentation: A Novel Approach to Television Rhetoric and the Power of the News
- Paradoxical Representation of Tropes in Visual Rhetoric
- Visual Rhetoric Used in Mapping Natural Language Arguments
- Philosophy and the Limits of Language
- Seemings: Sensory and Intellectual
- Cognitive Function of Beauty and Ugliness in Light of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas
- Kant’s Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- The Thread and the Chain “Family Resemblances” and the Possibility of Non-Essentialist Conceptual Structure
- Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
Do We Have a Visual Mind?
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1.Towards a Sensorimotor Turn
Casting a glance at philosophical endeavours of the last decades with regard to human cognition (in a broad sense), we are witnesses to turns one after the other. These turns were based on the change of scope and perspective of investigations. The so-called linguistic turn refers to “the view that philosophical problems are problems which may be solved (or dissolved) either by reforming language, or by understanding more about the language we presently use”1. In the 1990s, W. J. T. Mitchell coined the phrase pictorial turn,2 calling attention to the fact that “pictures form a point of peculiar friction and discomfort across a broad range of intellectual inquiry”.3 In order to eliminate this intellectual discomfort, Mitchell considers exploratory and explicatory approaches which focus on non-linguistic symbol systems and do not consider language as the only source of a significant paradigm regarding meaning.
Given the fact that the so-called imagery debate, the debate between descriptionalist and depictionalist approaches, has been ceaseless and continues even now, at the beginning of the 21st century,4 we may find ourselves sympathetic to Mitchell and his desire for a paradigmatic view of images, and still more so if we take into consideration that the depictionalist view “includes the assumption that images are generated from propositional descriptions”.5 Although Allan Paivio’s ← 91 | 92 → Imagery and Verbal Processes appeared in 1971 and suggested a dual coding approach (i. e., he proposed that both imagery...
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Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Image, Metaphor, Symbol
- Living Images and Images We Live By What Does It Mean to Become a Living Image?
- Metaphor and Parable
- Metaphorical Eternity in Action The Nonlinguistic Realization of Death Metaphors in Iranian Culture
- The Art of Memory Politics: Visual Learning – Visual Resisting
- Text and Image
- The Iconic Surplus in Visual Arguments: Where Limitations and Potentials Coincide
- “More Than One Way at Once” Simultaneous Viewpoints in Text and Image
- Pictures, Experiential Learning and Phenomenology
- Do We Have a Visual Mind?
- Mental Imagery as a Sign System
- The Semiotics of Images: Photographic Conventions in Advertising
- Augmenting Conceptualization by Visual Knowledge Organization
- Images and the Challenge of the Internet
- Emoticons vs. Reaction-Gifs Non-Verbal Communication on the Internet from the Aspects of Visuality, Verbality and Time
- The Changing Appearance of Text and Images on Online Interfaces
- Visual Learning – Picture and Memory in Virtual Worlds
- Visual Rhetoric
- Ingenious Rhetoric: The Visual Secret of Rhetoricality
- Media Argumentation: A Novel Approach to Television Rhetoric and the Power of the News
- Paradoxical Representation of Tropes in Visual Rhetoric
- Visual Rhetoric Used in Mapping Natural Language Arguments
- Philosophy and the Limits of Language
- Seemings: Sensory and Intellectual
- Cognitive Function of Beauty and Ugliness in Light of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas
- Kant’s Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- The Thread and the Chain “Family Resemblances” and the Possibility of Non-Essentialist Conceptual Structure
- Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Image, Metaphor, Symbol
- Living Images and Images We Live By What Does It Mean to Become a Living Image?
- Metaphor and Parable
- Metaphorical Eternity in Action The Nonlinguistic Realization of Death Metaphors in Iranian Culture
- The Art of Memory Politics: Visual Learning – Visual Resisting
- Text and Image
- The Iconic Surplus in Visual Arguments: Where Limitations and Potentials Coincide
- “More Than One Way at Once” Simultaneous Viewpoints in Text and Image
- Pictures, Experiential Learning and Phenomenology
- Do We Have a Visual Mind?
- Mental Imagery as a Sign System
- The Semiotics of Images: Photographic Conventions in Advertising
- Augmenting Conceptualization by Visual Knowledge Organization
- Images and the Challenge of the Internet
- Emoticons vs. Reaction-Gifs Non-Verbal Communication on the Internet from the Aspects of Visuality, Verbality and Time
- The Changing Appearance of Text and Images on Online Interfaces
- Visual Learning – Picture and Memory in Virtual Worlds
- Visual Rhetoric
- Ingenious Rhetoric: The Visual Secret of Rhetoricality
- Media Argumentation: A Novel Approach to Television Rhetoric and the Power of the News
- Paradoxical Representation of Tropes in Visual Rhetoric
- Visual Rhetoric Used in Mapping Natural Language Arguments
- Philosophy and the Limits of Language
- Seemings: Sensory and Intellectual
- Cognitive Function of Beauty and Ugliness in Light of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas
- Kant’s Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- The Thread and the Chain “Family Resemblances” and the Possibility of Non-Essentialist Conceptual Structure
- Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index