Signs and information

pp. 213-242

in: Inna Semetsky, The edusemiotics of images, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

The lost common language symbolized by the Tower of Babel, addressed in the preceding chapter in terms of the results of miscommunication and human folly, is not just a myth or art form. This chapter constructs a naturalistic framework for Tarot edusemiotics. There is a continuing debate in contemporary cognitive science about the so-called Mentalese language as a system of primitive extra-linguistic signs which are hardwired in humans and which serve as tools for understanding, meaning making and creating new complex concepts. The semiotic, pre-verbal level precedes the symbolic or linguistic one.