Semiotic Principles in Cognitive Neuroscience

Abstract

Cognitive neuroscientific approaches to language(s) and brain in the twentyfirst century have made an important contribution to understanding the importance of the relationship of invariance and variation of language mappings across individuals, the dynamic nature of neurological processing of languages throughout the life cycle, and more ecologically valid modeling of cognitive processing that focus on the interactive nature of linguistic perception and production in the cultural context. Beginning with Ojemann's unique contribution to language mappings through cortical stimulation mapping (CSM) and continuing through to fMRI studies, contemporary neuroscience research paradigms have moved toward analyzing neural networks and connectivity, the relevance of embodied cognition, and the complex nature of signification and meaning-generation. This chapter presents important interactions between recent cognitive neuroscience studies of language and brain using proficiency with semiotic principles and semiotic theory as given in Peirce, Eco, Lotman, and Sebeok.

A naive picture of the world and a biosemantic approach to describing the lexical structure of a word

“…Este é o resultado da compreensão de todos os significados reais de uma palavra polissêmica, que é um conjunto mínimo dos componentes semânticos mais significativos, do ponto de vista do Participante da Comunicação, minimamente suficientes para uma interpretação adequada da realização contextual de o significado. Sendo um significado sistêmico de uma palavra polissêmica, ela garante o funcionamento da palavra na fala, pois é a base derivacional para a formação de todas as implementações contextuais dessa palavra, que, por sua vez, complementam constantemente a invariante (ANDREWS, 2019;KULL, 2022).…”