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Strand, Torill. "A semiotic model of learning." Chinese Semiotic Studies 17, no. 1 (January 14, 2021): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2021-0008.
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Abstract My ambition with this paper is to throw some light on Charles S. Peirce’s (1839–1914) semiotic model of learning. Peirce developed this model in his later writings, where he integrated his phenomenology, pragmatism, and semiotics while renewing all three. I start by introducing an analogy on pedagogy used by Peirce in one of his 1903 lectures on phenomenology. Next, I sketch out Peirce’s perspective on the ways in which we learn from experience. In the last section, I map out Peirce’s semiotic model, while indicating some prospects and limitations of a Peircean outlook on the paradoxical attributions of knowledge and learning.
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Gorlée, Dina L. "Text semiotics: Textology as survival-machine." Sign Systems Studies 28 (December 31, 2000): 134–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2000.28.08.
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Signifying practices by which living creatures communicate, are, according to Sebeok, the survival-machines. Accordingly, as represented by the semiotic text analysis or Bakhtin's textology, one can speak about a human survival-machine. This has been studied by different semiotic schools (including the Moscow-Tartu school) referring to language, culture, genre and, importantly, text ideology. In this article, the aspects of textology in Peirce's generalized theory of signs become analysed. After a discussion of the concept of text in Peirce's (published and unpublished) writings, its relationship with semiosis and other Peircean categories isshown. The project of elaborating Peirce-based text-semiotics expects that it must be dramatically different from other sign-theoretical text-theories. This may be a path towards more inter-subjective and creative textology.
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Jungk, Isabel Victoria Galleguillos. "Metaphoric semiosis: a Peircean perspective / Semiose metafórica: uma perspectiva peirceana." REVISTA DE ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM 28, no. 2 (May 5, 2020): 957. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.28.2.957-980.
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Abstract: This article presents how metaphoric semiosis develops from the perspective of Peircean semiotics. The study takes as theoretical framework the general foundations of metaphor as described by classical theories, its recognized cognitive nature and the theory of signs developed by Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) based on his three phenomenological categories. This is on the assumption that the application of Peirce’s broad conceptual tools – philosophical and semiotic – to his concept of metaphor as a hypoicon and its subdivisions constitutes an original and dynamic theory of metaphor, capable of operationalizing integrated analyzes of multimodal aspects of metaphor. In conclusion, considerations are made about the truth value of a good metaphor according to Peircean theoretical framework.Keywords: metaphor; semiotics; meaning; cognition; iconicity; multimodality. Resumo: Este artigo apresenta a forma como se desenvolve a semiose metafórica sob a perspectiva da semiótica peirceana. O estudo toma como quadro teórico os fundamentos gerais da metáfora descritos pelas teóricas clássicas, sua reconhecida natureza cognitiva e a teoria dos signos desenvolvida por Charles S. Peirce com base em suas três categorias fenomenológicas. Parte-se do pressuposto de que a aplicação do amplo instrumental conceitual de Peirce, tanto filosófico como semiótico, a seu conceito de metáfora como hipoícone e suas subdivisões constitui uma teoria original e dinâmica da metáfora, capaz de operacionalizar análises integradas de aspectos multimodais da metáfora. À guisa de conclusão, são tecidas considerações sobre o valor de verdade de uma boa metáfora de acordo com o quadro teórico peirceano.Palavras-chave: metáfora; semiótica; significação; cognição; iconicidade; multimodalidade.
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Campbell, Cary, Alin Olteanu, and Sebastian Feil. "Peircean anti-psychologism and learning theory." Chinese Semiotic Studies 17, no. 1 (January 14, 2021): 175–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2021-0010.
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Abstract Taking influence from Peirce’s phenomenological categories (Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness), a notion of what we call bottom-up modeling has become increasingly significant in research areas interested in learning, cognition, and development. Here, following a particular reading of Peircean semiotics (cf. Deacon, Terrence. 1997. The symbolic species: The co-evolution of language and the brain. London and New York: W. W. Norton; Sebeok, Thomas and Marcel Danesi. 2000. The forms of meaning: Modelling systems theory and semiotic analysis. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter), modeling, and thus also learning, has mostly been thought of as ascending from simple, basic sign types to complex ones (iconic – indexical – symbolic; Firstness – Secondness – Thirdness). This constitutes the basis of most currently accepted (neo-Peircean) semiotic modeling theories and entails the further acceptance of an unexamined a priori coherence between complexity of cognition and complexity of signification. Following recent readings of Peirce’s post-1900 semiotic, we will present, in abbreviated form, a discussion as to the limits of this theoretical approach for theories of learning that draws upon Peirce’s late semiotic philosophy, in particular his late work on iconicity and propositions. We also explore the corollary conceptions of semiotic resources and competences and affordances to develop an ecological perspective on learning that notably does not impose a linear developmental progression from simple to complex. In conclusion, we address some of the implications of this (post-Peircean) conceptualization for transdisciplinary research into learning.
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Bergman, Mats. "The secret of rendering signs effective: the import of C. S. Peirce’s semiotic rhetoric." Public Journal of Semiotics 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 2–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2007.1.8817.
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In this article I trace the historical development of Peirce’s semiotic rhetoric from its early appearance as a sub-discipline of symbolistic to its mature incarnation as one of the three main branches of the science of semiotic, and argue that this change in status is a symptom of Peirce’s broadening semiotic interest. The article shows how the evolution of Peirce’s theory of signs is linked to changes in his conception of logic. This modification is not merely a minor justification in his classification of the sciences; rather, it indicates a growing understanding of the interconnection between the different semiotic sub-disciplines. The scope and character of the mature discipline of rhetoric is further discussed in terms of a possible clash between rhetorical and methodological emphases, and a conciliatory strategy is suggested. The article concludes with some reflections on the relevance of Peircean rhetoric for future work in Peirce studies and semiotics.
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Pearson, Charls, and Cary Campbell. "An Interview with Charls Pearson." Chinese Semiotic Studies 16, no. 2 (May 26, 2020): 317–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2020-0018.
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AbstractCurrent Peirce Section editor Cary Campbell, interviews previous section editor Charls Pearson, on his life and work studying and systematizing C. S. Peirce’s semiotic science. Central aspects of Pearson’s philosophical project are discussed, such as, in particular, his proposal that semiotic logic leads to an integrated methodology of research and inquiry, bridging phenomenology and science. Additionally, Pearson discusses his Universal Sign Structure Theory (USST), and comments on recent post-Peircean developments in biosemiotics.
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Bor, Bettina, and Miklós Könczöl. "Towards a semiotic theory of style in law: a Peircean approach." International Journal of Law in Context 15, no. 03 (September 2019): 263–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552319000272.
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AbstractThis paper discusses the promises and limits of a Peircean semiotic approach to the concept of style in law. It does so in two steps: first (1) by identifying the place of style within the structure of law as a system of signs, then (2) by conceptualising the link between law and style in the thought of C.S. Peirce and highlighting some of the insights from a Peircean take on legal semiotics that may contribute to our understanding of the role of style in making meaning in law. It is argued that, for a Peircean analysis of law, three levels can be distinguished, from the ‘surface structure’ down to the ‘deep structure’. It is at the middle level (that of the ‘basic structure’) that a semiotic approach can yield coherent insights in terms of style, by examining the symbols and metaphors that make for the expressibility of ‘habits’, namely experience-based patterns of action and interpretation.
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Curry, Ben. "Valency–Actuality–Meaning: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Music." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 142, no. 2 (2017): 401–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2017.1361177.
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ABSTRACTPeircean semiotics has retained a place in the study of music for more than 40 years. Few studies, however, have focused upon arguably the most important aspects of Peirce's thought: his contribution to logic and his development of a pragmatic approach to epistemology. This article develops a theory of Peircean semiotics in music that is rigorously derived from the key insights Peirce offered to philosophy. It focuses upon his theory of the proposition and posits an approach to music analysis that is sensitive to the importance of music's internal structure while recognizing the enormously significant role played by cultural contexts and social forces in the development of musical meanings. The article introduces Peircean semiotics and develops a theory of musical valency with particular reference to the Allegro of Mozart's ‘Prague’ Symphony. It concludes by theorizing the role of cultural and ideological forces in articulating and saturating a music's valency.
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Heiskala, Risto. "Toward semiotic sociology: A synthesis of semiology, semiotics and phenomenological sociology." Social Science Information 53, no. 1 (March 2014): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018413509434.
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Departing from the common view according to which structuralist semiology (the Saussurean tradition), pragmatist semiotics (the Peircean tradition) and phenomenological sociology (Husserl, Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Garfinkel) are seen as mutually exclusive alternatives, the article attempts to outline their synthesis. The net result of the synthesis is that a conception emerges wherein action theories (rational choice, Weber, etc.) are based on phenomenological sociology, and phenomenological sociology is based on neo-structuralist semiotics, which is a synthesis of the Saussurean and the Peircian traditions of understanding habits of interpretation and interaction. This provides us with a research programme for semiotic sociology.
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Barnham, Chris. "Qualitative semiotics: Can we research consumer meaning-making?" International Journal of Market Research 61, no. 5 (May 23, 2019): 478–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470785319851317.
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The notion of “meaning” is central to marketing because it is only through the making of meaning that “added value” can be created. The marketing profession has several models of how such meaning is created, but Peircean semiotics can shed further light on the activity of meaning-making itself and the stages that are involved in this process. This article explores the differences between Peircean and Saussurian semiotics and discusses how these two semiotic traditions construe meaning creation. In particular, it applies the Peircean semiotic model of meaning-making to the notion of concept formation, and the classificatory aspects of this process. This enables convergences to be identified between qualitative research methodologies and semiotics. This, in turn, opens up the possibility of a new kind of qualitative research that understands, and explores, how individual consumers form their concepts. It does this by identifying the semiotic structures that are involved in this process. It will be argued that the resulting framework of “Qualitative Semiotics” has the potential to take semiotics beyond the remit of cultural analysis and to refocus it on processes of individual consumer cognition.
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Švantner, Martin. "Latour a sémiotika: Teorie znaku jako součást a kritika ANT." Sociální studia / Social Studies 17, no. 2 (December 18, 2020): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2020-2-13.
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The study’s focus is to identify the conceptual conditions of Latourian ANT as conditions that can be formulated as a specific theory of sign (so-called “material-semiotics”). Therefore, the main aim of the paper is to analyse selected semiotic aspects of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), namely Latour’s definition of an “actor” as an “actant” and his notion of the “semiotic fabrication” of agency. The interpretation strategy of this essay is a critical comparison of different understandings of the theory of the sign, namely (Saussurean) semiology, (Greimasian) semiotics and (Peircean) semeiotic. Interpretations of these semiotic paradigms comprise the main part of the text along with the evaluation of the Kohn-Latour debate, which can be understood as a more specific development of the Peircean semeiotic. The study points out the controversial aspects of Latour’s acceptance of certain semiotic concepts and their subsequent transposition into the ANT area.
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Dawkins, Roger. "From the perspective of the object in semiotics: Deleuze and Peirce." Semiotica 2020, no. 233 (March 26, 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0154.
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AbstractFrom Peirce, a sign represents something other than itself, an object, for some third; from Deleuze, a sign can create and erase an object, for some third. He makes this claim in the cinema books, without detailed explication. It is a fleeting reference to the Peircean triad developed in his semiotics; moreover, references to “objects” in Deleuze’s discussions of signs in his other work are often generic. In this essay, I explain what it means in Deleuze’s semiotics for a sign to create and erase its object. My method is to use the perspective of the object in the semiotic triad to compare Deleuze and Peirce’s semiotics. Deleuze’s sign that creates and erases its object marks a clear departure from Peirce’s semiotics. For Deleuze, like Peirce, an acquaintance with the object independent of the action of the sign is necessary for semiotics. Of most significance is that for Peirce, thinking with signs necessarily involves modifying prior knowledge of the object – meaning one’s conception of the object is a version of what was already known; while for Deleuze, thinking with signs can involve producing ideas at a second remove from the object – in turn, creating and erasing new object(s). Ultimately, this essay contributes to research on Deleuze’s cinema books by undertaking a detailed reading of a part of his discussion that has not been analyzed. Furthermore, in producing Deleuze’s concept of a sign that creates and erases its object, this essay reminds us how we think – and could think – with signs, reaffirming the importance of semiotic analysis for discussion about thinking with signs. Finally, this essay contributes to scholarship on Deleuze’s and Peirce’s semiotics.
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Paschoale, Conrado, and Silvia de Mendonca Figueiroa. "Geologic Time: A Semiotic Probing." Earth Sciences History 8, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 116–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.8.2.9w10334423243554.
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Time is a continuum and is real, according to Peircean theory. It is also the constitutive category of geology that is equivalent to the Peircean category of Thirdness. As a continuum, time was created and evolved. Although the conceptions of a linear and a cyclic time played a role in the development of geological science, they were not deduced from geological observations; they were a priori assumptions. Hence, time is a methodological device. Continuity, for Peirce, exists on evolutionary terms. Chance or Firstness is always present in every phenomenon. So, time is continual rather then continuous, a continuum where new possibilities of development can be added, by the action of Chance or Firstness. The notion of cycle in geologic time should be reviewed. For Peirce real time is multiply- or n-tracked. Real time is open to firstness. According to this, geologic time is the vestige, a great vestige, of the fixed and definite track which, within the n-possibilities of development, the planet evolved, incorporating changes produced by chance.
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Cannizzaro, Sara. "Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture." Sign Systems Studies 44, no. 4 (December 31, 2016): 562–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2016.44.4.05.
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This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene (1976). Yet Peircean semiotics and biosemiotics can challenge this doctrine of information transmission. While supporting a precise and discursive framework for internet memes, semiotic readings reconfigure contemporary formulations to the – now-established – conception of memes. Internet memes can and should be conceived, then, as habit-inducing sign systems incorporating processes involving asymmetrical variation. So, drawing on biosemiotics, Tartu-Moscow semiotics, and Peircean semiotic principles, and through a close reading of the celebrated 2011 Internet meme Rebecca Black’s Friday, this article proposes a working outline for the definition of internet memes and its applicability for the semiotic analysis of texts in new media communication.
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Bennett, Tyler James. "The semiotic life cycle and The Symbolic Species." Sign Systems Studies 43, no. 4 (December 31, 2015): 446–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2015.43.4.05.
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In The Symbolic Species (1997) Terrence Deacon identifies human verbal language acquisition as the first and foremost evolutionary threshold where symbol use happens, with all the concomitant adaptive advantages it affords, but along with these advantages in this book and elsewhere he alludes to certain disadvantages that result from symbols. To describe these disadvantages he uses words like maladaptation, parasitism, cognitive penumbra, and other hyperbolic terms. He does so offhandedly, either in connection with the results of some laboratory experiments, or simply in disconnected ominous generalizations, but never justifies these sign effects within the dominantly Peircean model of language acquisition that gives the book its title. In later works Deacon attempts to contextualize these generalizations within Richard Dawkins’ theory of the meme. Deacon is sometimes disparaged for his supposedly imprecise or incorrect use of the sign theory of Charles Peirce to defend his claims about memes and symbols. The problem is not that Peirce should not be used in this way. In fact Deacon’s book is a singular achievement in the application of Peirce. The problem is that Deacon’s Peircean model is too simple. In fact Deacon’s claim about the possible disadvantages of symbol use can be reinforced with a closer look at the mature, turn-of-the-century Peircean sign model. This preserves the theoretical integrity of The Symbolic Species and clarifies the relation between memes and signs.
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Konderak, Piotr. "On a Cognitive Model of Semiosis." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0007.
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Abstract What is the class of possible semiotic systems? What kinds of systems could count as such systems? The human mind is naturally considered the prototypical semiotic system. During years of research in semiotics the class has been broadened to include i.e. living systems (Zlatev, 2002) like animals, or even plants (Krampen, 1992). It is suggested in the literature on artificial intelligence that artificial agents are typical examples of symbol-processing entities. It also seems that (at least some) semiotic processes are in fact cognitive processes. In consequence, it is natural to ask the question about the relation between semiotic studies and research on artificial cognitive systems within cognitive science. Consequently, my main question concerns the problem of inclusion or exclusion from the semiotic spectrum at least some artificial (computational) systems. I would like to consider some arguments against the possibility of artificial semiotic systems and I will try to repeal them. Then I will present an existing natural-language using agent of the SNePS system and interpret it in terms of Peircean theory of signs. I would like also to show that some properties of semiotic systems in Peircean sense could be also found in a discussed artificial system. Finally, I will have some remarks on the status of semiotics in general.
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Kull, Kalevi. "Choosing and learning: Semiosis means choice." Sign Systems Studies 46, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): 452–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2018.46.4.03.
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We examine the possibility of shifting the concept of choice to the centre of the semiotic theory of learning. Thus, we define sign process (meaning-making) through the concept of choice: semiosis is the process of making choices between simultaneously provided options. We define semiotic learning as leaving traces by choices, while these traces influence further choices. We term such traces of choices memory. Further modification of these traces (constraints) will be called habituation. Organic needs are homeostatic mechanisms coupled with choice-making. Needs and habits result in motivatedness. Semiosis as choice-making can be seen as a complementary description of the Peircean triadic model of semiosis; however, this can fit also the models of meaning-making worked out in other shools of semiotics. We also provide a sketch for a joint typology of semiosis and learning.
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Vehkavaara, Tommi. "Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics." Sign Systems Studies 30, no. 1 (December 31, 2002): 293–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2002.30.1.19.
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Any attempt to develop biosemiotics either towards a new biological ground theory or towards a metaphysics of living nature necessitates some kind of naturalization of its semiotic concepts. Instead of standard physicalistic naturalism, a certain kind of semiotic naturalism is pursued here. The naturalized concepts are defined as referring only to the objects of our external experience. When the semiotic concepts are applied to natural phenomena in biosemiotics, there is a risk of falling into anthropomorphic errors if the semiotic concepts remain mentalistic. It is suggested that there really is an anthropomorphic error or “hidden prototype fallacy” arising from Peirce’s prototype for semiosis: the research process of an experimental scientist. The fallacy lies in the concept of the object of representation — it is questionable whether there are any objects of representation for bacteria and whether the DNA-signs have any objects. The conclusion is that Peircean semiotic concepts are naturalizable but only if they are based on some more primitive concept of representation. The causal origins of representations are not relevant, only their anticipative consequences (i.e. meaning).
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Wilson, Jack, and Hazel Price. "Courtroom data and politeness research: A case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics." Journal of Politeness Research 14, no. 1 (February 23, 2018): 63–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0056.
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AbstractIn this article we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a new perspective on meaning. One neo-Peircean approach, referred to asRelationship Thinking(Enfield 2009, 2013), has the potential to be influential for politeness research and linguistic pragmatics generally. In this article, we explore how the concept of relationship can be used to explore meaning on two dimensions:residentialandrepresentational(Kockelman 2006a, 2006b). It is our contention that both of these dimensions are crucial to developing an understanding of what happens in the courtroom data on which this special issue focusses. We begin by providing a detailed overview of neo-Peircean semiotics in order to demonstrate its utility for researchers from different disciplines. We then show how a neo-Peircean analytical approach can illuminate elements of data that may not be accounted for in other analyses. This is as a consequence of the neo-Peircean framework’s scope and its capacity for coping with a range of interactionally significant phenomena, from individual linguistic tokens to institutional norms. In our analysis of the data at the heart of this special issue, the Penelope Soto case, we show that problems can arise when interactants have different understandings of what is asignand what is aninterpretant(Peirce 1955). We make the case that it is a misunderstanding at this level (specifically the interpretations of the word “value”) that is ultimately what causes the interaction to conclude in the way that it does. Ultimately, we suggest that a neo-Peircean approach to the study of in/appropriate behaviour can facilitate links between the traditional (and sometimes disparate) methods of analysis used in politeness research.
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Michlich, Jenny. "An analysis of semiotic and mimetic processes in Australopithecus afarensis." Public Journal of Semiotics 8, no. 2 (December 20, 2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2018.8.18694.
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The underlying semiotic structures of communicative processes involving spoken language vocalizations and gesturing are analyzed in order to contribute to the interdisciplinary discussion on human cognitive-semiotic evolution. Peircean semiotics and mimesis theory are used as tools in the analysis of evidence from comparative neuroscience and primatology. Based on this, I propose the presence of indexical, iconic and possibly even (proto)symbolic communication in the cultures occupied by Australopithecus afarensis, preceding the evolution of the first species in our genus. The discussion shows the potentials of a cognitive semiotics to integrate concepts and methods from the Natural Sciences and the Humanities.
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White, John J. "F. T. Marinetti's Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach." Modernist Cultures 5, no. 2 (October 2010): 195–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2010.0103.
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The present paper identifies evidence of proto-semiotic thinking in Italian Futurist manifestoes and in Marinetti's experimental ‘words-in-freedom’ (parole in libertà). A case is made for approaching visual and acoustic modes of signification in Futurist poetry using Peircean semiotic theory. Readings of iconic and indexical sign-aspects explore the value of quasi-semiotic strategies as reflections of modernity and analyse their role in Futurist pro-war propaganda poetry. Particular attention is paid to semiotic aspects of the movement's ‘Typographical Revolution’, its strategies of codification and the rhetoric of self-signification. Peircean exegesis of various innovative effects throws light on the relationship between iconic and indexical features which earlier semiotic approaches fail to recognize.
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Feshchenko, Vladimir. "Gustav Shpet's deep semiotics: A science of understanding signs." Sign Systems Studies 43, no. 2/3 (November 30, 2015): 235–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2015.43.2-3.06.
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The article examines the implicit tradition of deep semiotics in Russia initiated by Gustav Shpet, a Russian philosopher of language. Shpet’s semiotic approach was developed synchronously with the major lines of European and American semiotics (Saussurian and Peircean), but has not been sufficiently known or studied. The recent publication of previously unknown papers by Shpet makes this Russian philosopher an advanced figure on the Russian semiotic scene. Shpet was one of the first Russian scholars to use the term ‘semiotics’, by which he meant a “general ontological study of signs”. Shpet used this term in his work History as a Problem of Logic as early as in 1916. Shpet’s main work on semiotics, the book Language and Sense (1920s), traced back the origins of semiotic thinking and laid the foundations for new semiotics, by which he meant a science of understanding signs. It is here that Shpet spoke of the ontological study of a sign, calling this study semiotics, or else characterics, and raising the issue of the semiotic mind.
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Ding, Ersu. "Rethinking the Peircean trichotomy of icon, index, and symbol." Semiotica 2016, no. 213 (November 1, 2016): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0134.
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AbstractClassification of signs into various kinds is a vital enterprise in semiotic research. As early as over a century ago, the American semiotician Charles Sanders Peirce laid down a solid foundation for this work by proposing his famous trichotomy of signs. Later scholars have been mostly applying Peirce’s theory to their own semiotic studies rather than challenging the inadequacies that exist therein, thus giving rise to a great number of confusions or even contradictions. The present article modifies Peirce’s theory from the perspective of sign emergence and evolution and emphasizes the importance of understanding sign transformations.
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Houser, Nathan. "Toward a Peircean Semiotic Theory of Learning." American Journal of Semiotics 5, no. 2 (1987): 251–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs19875219.
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de Lencastre, Paulo, and Ana Côrte-Real. "Brand response analysis: a Peircean semiotic approach." Social Semiotics 23, no. 4 (September 2013): 489–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2013.799005.
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Lidov, David. "Genuine Triadicity in Computation, Cognition and Consciousness." Chinese Semiotic Studies 15, no. 2 (May 30, 2019): 175–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2019-0012.
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Abstract Charles Peirce insisted that representation is a genuine three-part relation, irreducible to a complex of two-part relations. Demonstrations that two-part relations (like stimulus and response) can be described as three-part are chaff in the wind. Ironically, Peirce’s well-known description in semiotic language of sunflowers makes that error. Until recently, there was scant reason to speak of “sign” – in its full Peircean sense – in biology, computation, or even for unconscious thought. Current developments in computation and animal behavior suggest that triadic relations could be inherent in some classes of their operations, but this article does not find that possibility demonstrated. Instead, the argument is advanced that we should recognize a distinct theory of data (cybernetics) as adequate to describe the role of information in primitive lifeforms. Thus, we adopt definitions that do not support the proposal associated with (though not originating with) Thomas Sebeok, that life and semiosis are coextensive.
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Murray, Leo. "Adapting Peircean semiotics to sound theory and practice." SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience 5, no. 1 (March 9, 2016): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/se.v5i1.23308.
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This paper argues that the semiotic model proposed by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914) has the potential to be adapted to sound in order to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework and meta- language for describing sound both as product and as practice. The flexibility of the Peircean model means that it is ideally suited to the analysis of sound and sound/image combinations and to the analysis of audio-visual media. The starting point of the decision-making process for sound producers and designers can be framed by some fundamental questions: (a) What does the audience need to know? (b) How should the audience feel? And (c) what should they think? With the overall goal of the soundtrack being to ‘serve the needs of the story’, the choices in the soundtrack are geared around creating these understandings or emotional responses. The opening sequence from The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) is examined to illustrate the Peircean model as it is applied to sound in the audio-visual soundtrack. Viewed in this way the soundtrack can be thought of as a kind of trail of breadcrumbs, a part of the narrative which allows the audience to search for cause and consequence for themselves. A Peircean semiotic approach can then be used to inform the process of designing the soundtrack as well as aid in the analysis of the finished work.
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Noroozi, Iraj, and Somayeh Tork. "The Social Semiotic Analysis of Translation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Based on Peircean Model." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 7, no. 12 (December 3, 2017): 1281. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0712.15.
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The aim of the present article is to investigate the meaning of the signs in Persian translation of Heart of Darkness. To reach the desired goal, the researcher has used social semiotics and Peirce’s triadic sign model as the theoretical framework. In the current study, Peirce semiotics has been used for detecting signs. After detection 50 signs, the researcher used Peirce’s triadic sign model for analyzing the translation of each sign. The researcher decoded the signs to identify their components and analyzed them in social semiotic level to clarify whether they have the same impression on the Persian version of Heart of Darkness as their English source or not. After performing data analysis, it was cleared that 37 signs (out of 50) in the corpus of the study have the same effect and meaning in the target text as what they have in the source text.
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Dondero, Maria Giulia. "Visual semiotics and automatic analysis of images from the Cultural Analytics Lab: How can quantitative and qualitative analysis be combined?" Semiotica 2019, no. 230 (October 25, 2019): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0104.
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AbstractIn this article we explore the relationship between semiotic analysis of images and quantitative analysis of vast image corpora, in particular the work produced by Lev Manovich and the Cultural Analytics Lab, called “Media Visualization.” Media Visualization has been chosen as corpus because of its metavisual operation (images are visualized and analyzed by images) and its innovating way of conceiving analysis: by visual instruments. In this paper semiotics is used as an approach to Media Visualization and taken as an object of study as well, especially visual semiotics. In this sense, a comparison between visual semiotics (close reading of small corpora) and quantitative analyses of images (distant reading of vast collections) are conducted from a semiotic point of view. Post-Greimassian semiotics guides this study with respect to the issue of the image-within-an-image and metavisual visualization; Peircean semiotics is employed to explain and develop the notion of diagram.
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Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph. "A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics." Semiotica 2016, no. 213 (November 1, 2016): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0100.
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AbstractThe object of this paper is the domain of semiotic theories, from “traditional” semiotics to poststructuralism and postmodernism, excluding “semiotizing” approaches such as phenomenology or cultural studies. Thus, it is metatheoretical. It is based on two matrices. The first maps semiotic theories on the basis of the continuity or discontinuity between them. The second displays the logical categories of the relationship between semiotics and Marxism, which has historically been an important influence on the field. The paper presents the views of the main authors of the domain in terms of these two matrices. Some of the conclusions are: (a) the irreconcilability between Saussurean and Peircean semiotics; (b) the greater historical development of the former in comparison to the latter; (c) the different orientation between Central and Eastern European semiotics on the one hand and French semiotics on the other; (d) the strong influence of Saussure and Levi-Straussian structuralism on poststructuralism; (e) the increase of the influence of Marxism from structuralism to poststructuralism; and (f) the transformation from poststructuralism to North American postmodernism.The paper closes with some thoughts about the present status of the main semiotic currents and a proposal for a fertile future orientation for semiotics.
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Bonta, Steven. "A Peircean typology of cultural prime symbols: Culture as category." Semiotica 2015, no. 207 (October 1, 2015): 251–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0038.
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AbstractOswald Spengler first showed that every macroculture can be conceived of as an accretion of signs representing in various contexts a single abstract Prime Symbol. But this semiotic model of culture is not confined to the so-called “great civilizations”; it is applicable to every culture. In seeking a typology of Prime Symbols (and hence, a semiotic typology of cultures), we show that that the Peircean Categories Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness (including the “degenerate” Categories Firstness of Secondness, Firstness of Thirdness, and Secondness of Thirdness) are exemplified in the great range of cultural semiotic types, and that, because of their universality and generality, these Categories are the best semiotic lens through which cultural Prime Symbols can be understood.
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Zhang, Xiaoming, and Jiuling Sheng. "A Peircean semiotic interpretation of a social sign." Annals of Tourism Research 64 (May 2017): 163–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.002.
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Bateman, John A. "Transmediality and the End of Disembodied Semiotics." International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric 3, no. 2 (July 2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsvr.2019070101.
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The phenomena of mixing, blending, and referencing media is a major topic in contemporary media studies. Finding a sufficient semiotic foundation to characterize such phenomena remains challenging. The current article argues that combining a notion of ‘semiotic mode' developed within the field of multimodality with a Peircean foundation contributes to a solution in which communicative practices always receive both an abstract ‘discourse'-oriented level of description and, at the same time, a biophysically embodied level of description as well. The former level supports complex communication, the latter anchors communication into the embodied experience. More broadly, it is suggested that no semiotic system relevant for human activities can be adequately characterized without paying equal attention to these dual facets of semiosis.
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Nöth, Winfried. "Representation and Reference According to Peirce." International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 1, no. 2 (July 2011): 28–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsss.2011070102.
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The paper investigates Peirce’s semiotic solutions to the alleged problem of the inscrutability of reference (Peirce’s object) and examines Peirce’s terminology in the context of the notions of representation and reference. It elaborates on the distinction between representation of the object in the sign and the determination of the sign by its object, expounds the differences between the positivist view of the referent and the Peircean object of the sign, and describes the consequences of the distinction between the immediate and the dynamical objects. The paper provides examples of signs with imaginary, fictional, or mythological objects.
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Morimoto, Ryo. "The Cult(ture) of the Second Sun: Remembering, Repeating, and Performing the Past Imperfect1." Recherches sémiotiques 32, no. 1-2-3 (December 10, 2014): 161–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027777ar.
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This paper advances a pragmatic semiotic understanding of memory. By focusing on what is done with the real-time act of commemoration (or, the selective citation of memories), I analyze the multifunctional and multi-layered semiosis in society that presupposes and creates one’s experiential continuity between past, present, and future despite sudden (and catastrophic) change. I argue that the 2011 tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, have unearthed parallels between the semiosis of regimentation and commemoration with regard to their interpretability, performativity, and repetitiveness. Following Parmentier, regimentation is a struggle of interpretants for the proliferation of a certain belief associated with the act of remembering/forgetting in grounding the socio-cultural continuity. I conclude by making a cautious suggestion to apply both Saussurean semiology and Peircean semiotics to study the real-time, historically represented and stochastically determined social life of signs.
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Jiang, Yicun. "A Peircean epistemology of metaphor." Semiotica 2018, no. 222 (April 25, 2018): 347–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0154.
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AbstractThis paper aims to elaborate an epistemology of metaphor in the Peircean semiotic tradition. As a logician, Peirce sees metaphor as a result of logical processes that create new meaning. His exposition on iconicity and iconic reasoning has laid a solid foundation upon which may be erected a fresh epistemology of metaphor fit for the contemporary study of language and mind. Broadly speaking, metaphor in Peirce can be examined from two perspectives: macroscopically it is an icon as opposed to index and symbol, whereas microscopically it is a subdivided hypoicon on the third level as opposed to image and diagram. Semioticians after Peirce have further developed his theory of metaphor. Through his concept of “arbitrary iconicity,” Ersu Ding stresses the subjective nature of metaphorization and tries to draw our attention to the specific cultural contexts in which metaphors occur. He also emphasizes the diversity and multivalency of metaphorical vehicles. Umberto Eco sees the interpretation of signs as an open-ended process that involves knowledge of all kinds. Encyclopedic knowledge thus serves as an unlimited source for metaphorical association. For Eco, the meaning of a metaphor should be interpreted in the cultural framework based on a specific cultural community. These ideas are in line with Peirce’s theoretical framework where the meaning of a metaphor depends on an interpreter in a particular socio-historical context. Based on the above theories, the present article proposes a cultural space where innumerable semantic features of objects or life situations are rhizomaticly linked on the basis of encyclopedic knowledge shared by members of a particular culture.
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Sørensen, Bent. "Branding and communities: The normative dimension." Semiotica 2019, no. 226 (January 8, 2019): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0092.
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AbstractThe article offers a Peircean “glimpse” of the normativity of the brand community. The theoretical framework will primarily be Peirceʼs semiotics, while also adding a few insights from his thoughts on (ethical) normativity and the formal conditions of community. Firstly, I will describe the brand community as a semiotic entity based on three inter-related conditions involving “inner” and “outer” processes of branding where “inner process” is where we find the most explicit dynamics of the brand community related to a “common consent of meaning” and a “sense of community.” Secondly, I will try to describe how values and ideals can be understood within the brand community, including how the values and ideals (semiotically) transfer normative meanings by bringing together brands with consumers and thereby affect their feelings, acts, and thoughts so that they can become members within a brand community.
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Kruse. "Temporality in Musical Meaning: A Peircean/Deweyan Semiotic Approach." Pluralist 6, no. 3 (2011): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.6.3.0050.
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Queiroz, Joao, and Pedro Ata. "Book review - On a Peircean semiotic turn of semiotranslation." Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 4, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 210–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18680/hss.2018.0014.
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Otte, Michael. "Mathematical Epistemology from a Peircean Semiotic Point of View." Educational Studies in Mathematics 61, no. 1-2 (February 2006): 11–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-006-0082-6.
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Nöth, Winfried. "The semiotics of models." Sign Systems Studies 46, no. 1 (May 7, 2018): 7–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2018.46.1.01.
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The paper sheds light on the concept of model in ordinary language and in scientific discourse from the perspective of C. S. Peirce’s semiotics. It proposes a general Peircean framework for the definition of models of all kinds, including mental models. A survey of definitions of scientific models that have been influential in the philosophy of science and of the typologies proposed in this context is given. The author criticizes the heterogeneity of the criteria applied in these typologies and the lack of a semiotic foundation in typological distinctions between formal, symbolic, theoretical, metaphorical, and iconic models, among others. The paper argues that the application of Peirce’s subdivision of signs into the trichotomies of the sign itself, its object, and its interpretant can offer a deeper understanding of the nature of models. Semiotic topics in the focus of the paper are (1) the distinction between models as signs and (mental) models as the interpretants of signs; (2) models considered as a type (or legisign) and models considered as tokens (or replicas) of a type; (3) the iconicity of models, including diagrammatic and metaphorical icons; (4) the contribution of indices and symbols to the informativity of models; and (5) the rhetorical qualities of models in scientific discourse. The paper argues in conclusion that informative models are hybrid signs in which a diagram incorporates indices and symbols in a rhetorically efficient way.
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Fenigsen, Janina, and James Wilce. "Authenticities: A Semiotic Exploration1." Recherches sémiotiques 32, no. 1-2-3 (December 10, 2014): 103–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027774ar.
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Charles Taylor has called ours an “Age of Authenticity”, and authenticity is a popular object of scholarly examination, not least in anthropology. A considerable number of scholars have even proposed models for multiple “authenticities”. None, however, has brought a modified Peircean theoretical tool-kit together with ethnographic evidence that “the natives know” that there are many authenticities. This article seeks to fill that gap. Working with Peirce’s model of the sign and with postmodern theories of originals and replicas, we draw on Wilce’s Finnish fieldwork to analyze what we consider clear evidence of four authenticities arising in recent debates surrounding traditional Karelian lament and particularly highly organized attempts in Finland to “revive” the practice. We call performances arising out of the revival “neolaments”. We treat authenticities as strictly relational, metasemiotic, and ideological phenomena. Authenticities that appear salient to actors on the revivalist scene may involve the following relationships : that between any neolament performance and any particular Karelian lament performances, with the question being whether the former is adequately “traditional” (i.e. relationship between replica and original); between a particular lament performance and the generic essence of that which makes lament a lament (i.e. token and type); between a lament performance and emotion – a relationship ideologically construed as “expressive” (i.e. sign and object); and finally, a relationship between some sort of dynamic interpretant of particular old Karelian laments (lament1) and new dynamic interpretants generated in and through new lament performances (lament2 or habitual participation in such performance) that in some way replicates the old dynamical interpretant (interpretant1 and interpretant2).
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Sørensen, Bent, Torkild Thellefsen, and Martin Thellefsen. "The Image in Print Advertising and Comments to Val Larsen's Research Program." International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric 1, no. 2 (July 2017): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsvr.2017070102.
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In this article, the authors re-visit, with Val Larsen, the use of Peircean icons and symbols in print advertising and thereby find (some) formal conditions concerning its images. Even though they are inspired by Val Larsen's research program the authors are also critical of it. Hence, they set out to demonstrate how Val Larsen overlooks crucial parts of the semiotic potential of icons and symbols within print advertising. Furthermore, Val Larsen needs, they argue, the Peircean index within his research program. At the end of the article, and inspired by Val Larsen, the authors put forth nine Peircean points they find relevant for a research program concerning the image within print advertising. Here, ontological and methodological deductions are made from Peircean ideas and principles.
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Candria, Mytha. "Jora: The Centrality of Gender Equality for Sustainable Development." E3S Web of Conferences 73 (2018): 11004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20187311004.
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The paper is a semiotic study of Abidah El-Khalieqy’s novel Geni Jora. Semiotics is definedwith reference to the study of signs and sign systems, and “signs” concern any things that stand for other things. The semiotic analysis used in this paper was adopted from Chandler’s framework where he combines the Saussurean and Peircean concepts of signs and modes of relationship. The result of the semiotic reading of Geni Jora is that Jora, the main character of the novel, is a symbol, representingAbidah’s resistance to gender injustice within Muslim circle in particular and in Indonesia in general. The novel symbolizes Abidah’s concern about Indonesian (Muslim) women, who suffer from discrimination, injustice, abuse, and violence due to the stronghold of patriarchy. It also signifies her insistence, urging the people of Indonesia to seriously take actions to bring about gender equality and to provide women’s quality education, without which Indonesia would not be able to make sustainable community and development happen.
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Fernández, Eliseo, and Cary Campbell. "From tendencies to purposes." Chinese Semiotic Studies 15, no. 1 (February 25, 2019): 139–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2019-0009.
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Abstract In this article, Fernández examines a remarkable convergence of ideas in Peirce’s mature thought: the Aristotelian notion of causal powers or capacities and its possible combination with some ideas about finality that Kant advanced to make sense of the notion of purpose in the behavior of organisms. He argues that this proposed synthesis deserves to gain relevance in light of new investigations aimed at clarifying issues concerning causality and explanation in science, especially in biology. After reviewing new developments and interpretations concerning the notions of mechanism, teleology, and purpose, especially in regard to their origins in the Kantian tradition, Fernández concludes this trailblazing study by hypothesizing that the characteristic “finality” of biological teleology (manifest in the very idea of purpose) results from the interaction of two basic types of causation: efficient causation and semiotic causation. This a standpoint that incorporates ideas from Peircean semiotics to characterize and justify biological teleology.
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Nöth, Winfried. "Umberto Eco's semiotic threshold." Sign Systems Studies 28 (December 31, 2000): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2000.28.03.
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The "semiotic threshold" is U. Eco's metaphor of the borderline between the world of semiosis and the nonsemiotic world and hence also between semiotics and its neighboring disciplines. The paper examines Eco's threshold in comparison to the views of semiosis and semiotics of C. S. Peirce. While Eco follows the structuralist tradition, postulating the conventionality of signs as the main criterion of semiosis, Peirce has a much broader concept of semiosis, which is not restricted to phenomena of culture but includes many processes in nature. Whereas Eco arrives at the conclusion that biological processes, such as the ones within the immune system, cannot be included in the program of semiotic research, Peirce's broader defmition of semiosis has meanwhile become thefoundation of semiotic studies in biology and medicine and hence in biosemiotics and medical semiotics.
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Tredinnick-Rowe, John. "Can semiotics be used to drive paradigm changes in medical education?" Sign Systems Studies 46, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): 491–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2018.46.4.05.
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This essay sets out to explain how educational semiotics as a discipline can be used to reform medical education and assessment. This is in response to an ongoing paradigm shift in medical education and assessment that seeks to integrate more qualitative, ethical and professional aspects of medicine into curricula, and develop ways to assess them. This paper suggests that a method to drive this paradigm change might be found in the Peircean idea of suprasubjectivity. This semiotic concept is rooted in the scholastic philosophy of John of St Thomas, but has been reintroduced to modern semiotics through the works of John Deely, Alin Olteanu and, most notably, Charles Sanders Peirce. I approach this task as both a medical educator and a semiotician. In this paper, I provide background information about medical education, paradigm shifts, and the concept of suprasubjectivity in relation to modern educational semiotic literature. I conclude by giving examples of what a suprasubjective approach to medical education and assessment might look like. I do this by drawing an equivalence between the notion of threshold concepts and suprasubjectivity, demonstrating the similarities between their positions. Fundamentally, medical education suffers from tensions of teaching trainee doctors the correct balance of biological science and situational ethics/ judgement. In the transcendence of mind-dependent and mind-independent being the scholastic philosophy of John of St Thomas may be exactly the solution medicine needs to overcome this dichotomy.
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Brier, Søren. "Pragmaticism, Science, and Theology or How to Answer the Riddle of the Sphinx?" American Journal of Semiotics 34, no. 1 (2018): 131–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs20186637.
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This text is written in the honor of my scholarly friend John Deely, discussing the claims regarding the relation of modern science and religion put forth in Ashley and Deely, How Science Enriches Theology. I view it as the confrontation of a Peircean and a Thomist philosophical view of modern science and its relation to religion. I argue that the book demonstrates the problems inherent in the dialogue between a Thomist theist and a Peircean panentheist process view. Furthermore, that they are central to the contemporary philosophy of science discussion of the relation between the types of knowledge produced in the sciences and in theology. The important choice seems to be whether the link between science and religion should be based on a panentheist process concept of the divine as arising from a pure zero or on a theology with a personal god as the absolute and eternal source. I argue that Peirce’s triadic semiotic process philosophy is a unique form of panentheism in the way it draws on a combination of Schelling, Unitarianism, plus Emerson, and the transcendentalist’s spiritual ecumenical reading of Buddhist emptiness ontology and non-dualist Advaita Vedanta. This and Peirce’s synechism produce a non-confessional theological process philosophy. The surprising conclusion is that, because of its extended process philosophical grounding in emptiness, this panentheism does not assume any supernatural quality about the divine force of reasoning that drives Cosmogony. Rather Peirce’s pragmaticist formulation stands out as a true non-reductionist alternative to logical positivism’s reductionist unity science, especially in its form of mechanicism based on a concept of transcendental absolute law. The panentheism process view is also an alternative to the many forms of radical constructivism and postmodernism on the other hand. This is one of the reasons why Deely insightfully named Peirce the first true postmodernist.
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Bonta, Steven. "The lens of firstness: Shamanic/Aboriginal culture as cosmos-sign." Semiotica 2018, no. 221 (March 26, 2018): 143–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0139.
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AbstractHaving identified previously (Bonta 2015) the Peircean Category Firstness as the semiotic basis (or cultural Prime Symbol) for Australian Aboriginal culture, this paper examines the “lens” of Firstness as it is manifest in a variety of aboriginal (or “Shamanic”) cultures worldwide. By studying the semiotic contours of religion, language, social organization, and art, we find systemic prioritization of Firstness in its various manifestations, across a wide range of aboriginal cultures from Australia to the Indian Subcontinent to aboriginal Siberia and the New World. Shamanic culture, despite its ethnic and geographic variety, may therefore be represented as a semiotic type – and, in addition, one that, in its pristine form, is nearly extinct.
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Konderak, Piotr. "Towards an integration of two aspects of semiosis – A cognitive semiotic perspective." Sign Systems Studies 49, no. 1-2 (June 4, 2021): 132–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2021.49.1-2.06.
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Meaning-making processes, understood hierarchically, in line with the Semiotic Hierarchy framework, change on various timescales. To account for and predict these changes, one can take a cognitive view on semiosis. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach combining semiotic studies and cognitive studies in an attempt to account for meaning-making activity and to predict the course of semiosis. In this context, I consider meaning-making activity as shaped by both “external” (to a semiotic system) as well as “internal” factors. I also show how both the “external” and “internal” sources of the dynamicity of meaning-making should be framed in terms of studies on cognition.
I start with a non-standard, 4e approach to meaning-making. According to this framework, meaning-making processes are constituted by (and not just dependent on) environmental and bodily factors. The dynamicity of semiosis can be accounted for in terms of an experiencing, embodied subject (agent) enacting her/his/its own domain of meaningful phenomena. As I argue, this perspective on meaning-making is the cognitive foundation of the first two levels of the Semiotic Hierarchy.
In the following sections I present the Peircean view on signs and semiosis, according to which semiosis is a result of the very nature of a sign and a sign system. In this view, the dynamicity of semiosis has primarily “internal” sources: it stems from the unavoidable fallibility of interpretation and synechism of signs. As I show, this aspect of semiosis can be addressed by means of standard (cognitivist) cognitive science and by means of cognitive modelling.
Ultimately, I sketch a proposal of an attempt to develop a uniform cognitive framework allowing for integration of the above-mentioned aspects of semiosis – a framework based on Rowlands’ idea of the Amalgamated Mind.