Cognitive Semiotics of Mental Disorders
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cognitive Semiotics of Mental Disorders
Original language description
The presented chapter aims to employ the principles of cognitive semiotics for the study of mental disorders. Cognitive semiotics offers an interdisciplinary approach that includes semiotic analysis on the one hand and a psychiatric perspective on the other. This approach is demonstrated by the example of schizophrenia. Hallucinations, as one of the major symptoms of schizophrenia, are specific due to their indexicality, rather than being 'misinterpretations of the inner speech'. The paper further describes the indexical character of hallucinations and their similarities with, and differences to other cognitive processes (memory, imagination, perception). The concept of indexicality of hallucinations is compared with neuropsychiatric theories of hallucinations. In sum, the aim of the chapter is to show how the cognitive semiotics approach can offer new perspectives in the study of mental disorders, and schizophrenia specifically.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Meaning, mind and communication: Explorations in cognitive semiotics
ISBN
978-3-631-65704-1
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
251-260
Number of pages of the book
482
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Frankfurt am Main
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