Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

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José Luis Guijarro has been teaching in the English Departments of  Universities in Spain since the academic year 1968-69. His PhD was about extra-, para- and fully linguistic aspects of the process of human communication. Influenced by the semiotic approach he held that that everything in the world of communication could be reduced to codes (explicit AND implicit). Since 1980 he has taught at the University of Cádiz. His interest in Pragmatics started to shift my view from the semiotic point of view to a cognitive one. He met Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in a seminar held at the Chateau de Cerisy (Normandy, France) in 1986, accepted their vision and managed to create a research group that he leads and that publishes a yearly journal called PRAGMALINGUÍSTICA. Guijarro is in a constant professional relationship with Sperber’s research group in Paris, where he attends seminars and conferences and interacts with most members of his crew. Even though Guijarro is professionally a Chomskyan linguist, Dan Sperber's influence has roused his interest in some anthropological issues. That is why he wrote the current paper on art (and literature).