From Humanities to Science: The Standpoint of Cognitive Semiotics
作者：Hu Yirong 来源： 浏览量：3160 2015-09-06 16:25:16
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rise of cognitive semiotics. However, debates about whether this doctrine belongs to the humanities or the sciences and whether it constitutes a brand-new system of semiotics are gaining attention. Beyond the traditional boundary of semiotics, this paper endeavours to ponder the general characterisation of cognitive semiotics in the context of the “scientization of the humanities”, and to explore how semiotics and cognitive science are combined through consideration of the dyadic relations between the humanities and natural sciences. It concludes that the convergence of semiotics and cognitive science results from a methodological integration of these frontier disciplines. Such convergence, by appealing to ‘generality’, influences developing trends in semiotics, while semiotics in return affects the development of cognitive science. Thus, cognitive semiotics is the fruit of mutual influence between semiotics and cognitive science.
