Carmen GranitoDurham University | DU · Department of Anthropology
Carmen Granito
Doctor of Philosophy
CEO & Founder of The Story Behind - Heritage Branding and Interpretation
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March 2016 - August 2020
February 2013 - September 2013
September 2011 - January 2012
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March 2016 - August 2020
September 2014 - October 2015
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Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from intersubjectively recognizable representations of things to very stylized and abstract forms. Are th...
Pictorial representation is a key human behaviour. Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. However, styles of pictorial representation vary greatly between cultures and historical periods. In p...
Pictorial representation is a key human behaviour. Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. However, styles of pictorial representation vary greatly between cultures and historical periods. In p...
While embodied approaches of cognition have proved to be successful in explaining concrete concepts and words, they have more difficulties in accounting for abstract concepts and words, and several proposals have been put forward. This work aims to test the Words As Tools proposal, according to which both abstract and concrete concepts are grounded...
The main purpose of this work is to propose a way to overcome the explanatory limitations of those linguistic approaches based on a motivationist claim, namely the idea that the semantics and syntax of languages are motivated/constrained by perceptual and bodily structures (Evans & Green 2006). To this purpose, I will present two forms of motivatio...
Grounded and embodied theories of cognition face the problem of a consistent account of abstract concepts: if cognition is grounded in the brain modal systems and consists in modal simulations, where are abstract concepts from? After discussing some fully modal embodied theories of abstract concepts and two pluralistic approaches involving modal an...
