Introduction: The task ahead
Introduction: The task ahead

Summary/Abstract: This somewhat confessionary introduction compels me to offer some general assumptions underlying the pages that follow, instead of boring you with the customary chapter-by-chapter summary. So: (1) presymbolic (pre- or extra-linguistic) modes of feeling and sensing and experiencing and portraying ourselves, others, and our mental and physical ‘world-versions’, entail the process of consciousness-becoming; (2) linguistic signs are the culmination of this consciousness-becoming; and (3) consciousness-becoming is always in the process of nonlinearly becoming something other than what it was becoming; thus (4) symbolic (linguistic) signs are never complete and consistent, for they are always drawing from the fountainhead of more basic (pre- or extra-linguistic, iconic and indexical) semiosic processes. That much written, I continue with a set of questions appropriate for an inquiry into the nature of processing meaning, creatively.

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