Approaches to semiotics : cultural anthropology, education, linguistics, psychiatry, psychology : transactions of the Indiana University Conference on Paralinguistics and Kinesics

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This book is a collection of essays each of which discusses the work of one of eight individuals - Rush Rhees, Peter Winch, R. F. Holland, J. R. Jones, H. O. Mounce, D. Z. Phillips, Ilham Dilman and R.W. Beardsmore - who taught philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, for some time from the 1950s through to the 1990s and so contributed to what in some circles came to be known as 'the Swansea School'. These eight essays are in turn followed by a ninth that, drawing on the previous eight, offers something of a critical overview of philosophy at Swansea during that same period. The essays are not primarily historical in character. Instead they aim at both the critical assessment and the continuation of the sort of philosophical work that during those years came to be especially associated with philosophy at Swansea, work that is deeply indebted to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein but also distinctively sensitive to the relevance of literary works to philosophical reflection.

Transactions of the Indiana University Conference on Paralinguistics and Kinesics. Contents: Preface; How the Patient Communicates about Disease with the Doctor; Discussion Session on Psychiatry; Psychological Research in the Extralinguistic Area; Discussion Session on Psychology; Paralinguistics and Kinesics: Pedagogical Perspectives; Discussion Session on Language Teaching; Paralinguistics, Kinesics, and Cultural Anthropology; Discussion Session on Cultural Anthropology; Problems of Emotive Language; Discussion Session on Linguistics; Vicissitudes of the Study of the Total Communication Process; List of Participants.