Background
Thibault, Paul John was born on July 1, 1953 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Arrived in Italy, 1984. Son of Philip Jan and Sylvia Katherine (Lovell) Thibault.
(Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the ...)
Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus our theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate from our individual and social practices of making meaning. In this challenging book, Thibault presents a different view of Saussure. Paying close attention to the original texts, including the Cours de Linguistic Generale he demonstrates that Saussure was centrally concerned with trying to formulate a theory of how meanings are made.Re-reading Saussure does more than simply engage with Saussure's theory in a new and up-to-date way, however. In addition to demonstrating the continuing viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples, it makes an important intervention in contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate.
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Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science. Using linguistic theories first developed by Saussure and more latterly by M. A. K. Halliday, Paul Thibault analyses how social and biological systems interact to produce meaning. This fascinating study will be of interest to undergraduates and academics researching cognitive linguistics and advanced semiotics. The book engages with the current dialogue between the human and life sciences to ask questions about the relationship between the physical, biological aspects of a human being, and the sociocultural framework in which a human being exists. Paul J. Thibault argues that we need to understand both the semiotic, discursive nature of meaning making, and the physical context in which this activity takes place. The two are inseparable, and hence the only way we can understand our subjective experience of our environment and our perceptions of our inner states of mind is by giving equal weight to both frameworks. This 'ecosocial semiotic' theory engages with linguistics, semiotics, activity theory, biology and psychology. In so doing, the book produces a new way of looking at how a human being makes sense of his or her environment, but also how this environment shapes such meanings.
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Thibault, Paul John was born on July 1, 1953 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Arrived in Italy, 1984. Son of Philip Jan and Sylvia Katherine (Lovell) Thibault.
Bachelor with honors class 1, University Newcastle, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University Sydney, Australia, 1985.
Tutor Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 1982-1983. Postdoctoral fellow University Bologna, Italy, 1984-1985. Lecturer University Sydney, 1986-1989.
Visiting professor University Verona, Italy, 1989. Associate professor University Padova, Italy, 1992-1995, University Venice, Italy, since 1995. Foundation faculty, course teacher Cyber Semiotics Institute, since 1996.
Science advisor Encyclopedia Semiotics and Cultural Studies, 1994-1997, Systemic-Functional Congress, 1997, Virtual Encyclopedia Semiotics, since 2001. Visiting professor Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2002. Guest lecturer, China, Japan, 2002.
Appointed member editorial advisory board Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2003, Social Semiotics, 2004.
(Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the ...)
(Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body is an exploration of ...)
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Member Pegasus Project (Europe): Children and the Media, 1998.
Married Vincenza Andrisano, May 24, 1984 (divorced). 1 child, Ilaria; Married Ng Lai Ping, 2004. 1 child, Catherine Lifei.