study of meaning. Dynamic semiotics, developed from Structural Semantics and Peircean philosophy through the morphogenetic views made possible by catastrophe Theory, is here engaged in a constructive dialogue with Cognitive Linguistics, and challenged by Aesthetics and Phenomenology. The resulting cognitive semiotics restates and discusses a wide range of foundational problems retlated to contemporary research on perception, communication, and subjectivity.
A basic assummption of the seventeen studies of the Morphologies of Meaning gathered for this volume is that sign structures, however cultural, are grounded in natural patterns of both perceptual and pragmatic cognition, and that these patterns can be understood as dynamic schemes connecting forces and forms in stable ways that account for human actions, passions, and the organization of thought.