LEADER 04529nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910822132103321 005 20240416191031.0 010 $a1-282-86041-0 010 $a9786612860416 010 $a0-7735-7016-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773570160 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244913 035 $a(OCoLC)80221367 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280122 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195706 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280122 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268393 035 $a(PQKB)10323467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400140 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521962 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132880 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286041 035 $a(OCoLC)929120908 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/p91sw2 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400140 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330697 035 $a(DE-B1597)658073 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773570160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243557 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244913 100 $a20020912d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHalf brain fables and figs in paradise /$fJacques M. Chevalier 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 225 1 $aThe 3-D mind ;$vv. 1 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2355-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tLog On: Hyperlinks -- $tCratylus Returns -- $tThe Neural Web -- $tHalf Brain Talk -- $tTwo Brains Are Better Than One -- $tA Childless Father and a Rose Is a Rose -- $tMeetings of Synkretismos and Diakritikos -- $tSemiotic Weavings -- $tIn the Synaptic Clefts -- $tWhat?s in a Name? -- $tThe Forest Primeval -- $tWho Gives a Fig? -- $tThe Corn Boy and the Iguana -- $tPhilosophical Lines -- $tA Theoreticle Approach -- $tPigeons, Doves, and Ghosts -- $tA Jungle in Versailles -- $tThe Nervous Line -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHalf-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise starts the trilogy on the lateral plane and explores the tendency of each hemisphere to specialize but also to complement or supplement the other hemisphere. Brain and sign processing is thus shown to involve bimodal weavings or reticles of right-hemispheric similarities and left-hemispheric differences. Chevalier goes on to illustrate how whole-brain connectivity generates the crisscrossings of oppositions and metaphors in language, using symbolically rich material ranging from Western naming practices to expressions of ethnobotany in the bible (figs in Genesis), poetry (Longfellow's Evangeline), and native Mexican mythology. Three major philosophical implications follow from Chevalier's "theoreticle" perspective on the weavings of signs and synapse. First, the integrative concept of "nervous sign processing" should be substituted for models of the brain and the intellect that separate biology from mental and cultural activity. The subject matter of "semiosis" is both physical and communicational. Second, sign reticles are orderly and chaotic at the same time. They are subject to patterns of convergence but also to lines of divergence that defy simple modeling, whether analytical or dialectical. Third, sign events are governed by the principle of conferencing, not referencing. They do not refer to things or thoughts signified through representational means. Rather they confer meaning through "signaptic" conversations, reticles of fine lines evolving in language and in neural cells alike. 410 0$a3-D mind ;$vv. 1 606 $aNeuropsychology 606 $aSemiotics$xPsychological aspects 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aPsycholinguistics 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy 606 $aNeurophysiology 615 0$aNeuropsychology. 615 0$aSemiotics$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aNeurophysiology. 676 $a302.0 700 $aChevalier$b Jacques M.$f1949-$0877586 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822132103321 996 $aHalf brain fables and figs in paradise$93974146 997 $aUNINA