Jamin Pelkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamin Pelkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelkey |
| SIGNATURE | PELKEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0069-0617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking body partonymy
The part-whole relations of body-part lexemes, or “body partonymy,” might seem like a key source of evidence for shared conceptual systems in support of embodiment theories of cognition, but widespread variation in this lexical field across world languages calls this assumption into question. Recent studies focus on radical mismatches and random overlap relative to isolated frames of contrast such as body joints, reference languages, and ad hoc h…
Tropological Thought and Action
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
Rhetoric Culture Theory
Pragmatic linguistics, discourse analysis, and the ethnography of speaking developed rapidly from the middle of the 20th century, when researchers began to be able to take ever smaller and more efficient audiovisual recording equipment to the field, and computers helped them play back, analyze, and discuss these especially rich new data with their interlocutors on location and with their colleagues at home. Part of this newly energized research w…
Tropological Thought and Action
Conclusion.
Zhuangzi, Peirce, and the butterfly dreamscape
Waking from a vivid dream, the sage finds himself lost between worlds of possibility and ultimately transformed. Zhuangzi’s famous butterfly story may seem familiar, but the text-linguistic structures of its broader interpretive context are little discussed and poorly understood. In this paper I argue that the Qíwùlùn 齊物論 chapter, like so many other ancient writings, is composed in a concentric, chiastic pattern, with sections in each half mirror…
Tropological Thought and Action
Intercultural parallax
Comparative modeling is necessary for semiotic inquiry. To better theorize such pursuits, a reflexive turn is in order: comparative modeling needs comparative modeling. In search of experientially grounded analogies better suited for understanding, validating, scrutinizing, and accounting for the situation of the semiotic inquirer, this paper applies insights from Peircean process semiotics and Göran Sonesson’s extended theory of cultural semioti…
Emptiness and desire in the first rule of logic
Charles Sanders Peirce’s first rule of logic (EP 2.48, 1898) identifies the inception point of human inquiry. Taking a closer look at this principle, we find at its core a necessary relationship between emptiness and desire that underlies all genuine instances of human learning and adaptation. This composite relationship plays a critical role in the function or failure of learning but has received scant attention in the literature. As a result, t…
Greimas embodied
According to Greimas, the semiotic square is far more than a heuristic for semantic and literary analysis. It represents the generative "deep structure" of human culture and cognition which "define the fundamental mode of existence of an individual or of a society, and subsequently the conditions of existence of semiotic objects". The veracity of this bold hypothesis has received little attention in the literature. In response, this paper traces …
Symbiotic modeling
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure),…
Reconstructing phylogeny from linkage diffusion
Linkage models of language diversification (Ross 1988, François 2014) represent the slow differentiation of closely related sister languages via dialect continua. Such historical relationships are said to prevent the reconstruction of branchinternal phylogeny. A newly defined mode of linkage variation challenges this restriction. In cladistic hinge diversification, speakers of a geographically central variety mediate innovations between isolated …
Analogy, automation and diagrammatic causation
One areal feature of East and Southeast Asian languages is the grammaticalization of an augmentative-diminutive pair from the nominals ‘mother’ and ‘child’, respectively (Matisoff 1992). Many Sino-Tibetan languages further grammaticalize noun-class affixes from these kinship nominals, adding a parallel ‘father’ analogy in the process. Some Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages further grammaticalize the resulting kinship trio into numeral classifiers and …
Greimas embodied
According to Greimas, the semiotic square is far more than a heuristic for semantic and literary analysis. It represents the generative "deep structure" of human culture and cognition which "define the fundamental mode of existence of an individual or of a society, and subsequently the conditions of existence of semiotic objects". The veracity of this bold hypothesis has received little attention in the literature. In response, this paper traces …
Analogy, automation and diagrammatic causation
One areal feature of East and Southeast Asian languages is the grammaticalization of an augmentative-diminutive pair from the nominals ‘mother’ and ‘child’, respectively (Matisoff 1992). Many Sino-Tibetan languages further grammaticalize noun-class affixes from these kinship nominals, adding a parallel ‘father’ analogy in the process. Some Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages further grammaticalize the resulting kinship trio into numeral classifiers and …
Reconstructing phylogeny from linkage diffusion
Linkage models of language diversification (Ross 1988, François 2014) represent the slow differentiation of closely related sister languages via dialect continua. Such historical relationships are said to prevent the reconstruction of branchinternal phylogeny. A newly defined mode of linkage variation challenges this restriction. In cladistic hinge diversification, speakers of a geographically central variety mediate innovations between isolated …
Symbiotic modeling
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure),…
Greimas embodied
According to Greimas, the semiotic square is far more than a heuristic for semantic and literary analysis. It represents the generative "deep structure" of human culture and cognition which "define the fundamental mode of existence of an individual or of a society, and subsequently the conditions of existence of semiotic objects". The veracity of this bold hypothesis has received little attention in the literature. In response, this paper traces …
Emptiness and desire in the first rule of logic
Charles Sanders Peirce’s first rule of logic (EP 2.48, 1898) identifies the inception point of human inquiry. Taking a closer look at this principle, we find at its core a necessary relationship between emptiness and desire that underlies all genuine instances of human learning and adaptation. This composite relationship plays a critical role in the function or failure of learning but has received scant attention in the literature. As a result, t…
Intercultural parallax
Comparative modeling is necessary for semiotic inquiry. To better theorize such pursuits, a reflexive turn is in order: comparative modeling needs comparative modeling. In search of experientially grounded analogies better suited for understanding, validating, scrutinizing, and accounting for the situation of the semiotic inquirer, this paper applies insights from Peircean process semiotics and Göran Sonesson’s extended theory of cultural semioti…
Conclusion.
Zhuangzi, Peirce, and the butterfly dreamscape
Waking from a vivid dream, the sage finds himself lost between worlds of possibility and ultimately transformed. Zhuangzi’s famous butterfly story may seem familiar, but the text-linguistic structures of its broader interpretive context are little discussed and poorly understood. In this paper I argue that the Qíwùlùn 齊物論 chapter, like so many other ancient writings, is composed in a concentric, chiastic pattern, with sections in each half mirror…
Tropological Thought and Action
Tropological Thought and Action
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
Rhetoric Culture Theory
Pragmatic linguistics, discourse analysis, and the ethnography of speaking developed rapidly from the middle of the 20th century, when researchers began to be able to take ever smaller and more efficient audiovisual recording equipment to the field, and computers helped them play back, analyze, and discuss these especially rich new data with their interlocutors on location and with their colleagues at home. Part of this newly energized research w…
Tropological Thought and Action
Rethinking body partonymy
The part-whole relations of body-part lexemes, or “body partonymy,” might seem like a key source of evidence for shared conceptual systems in support of embodiment theories of cognition, but widespread variation in this lexical field across world languages calls this assumption into question. Recent studies focus on radical mismatches and random overlap relative to isolated frames of contrast such as body joints, reference languages, and ad hoc h…
Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Semiotics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Reflexivity (3 works) · Action (physics) (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Analogy (2 works)