ISBN:
9789401794046
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1000 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version International Handbook of Semiotics
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Semiotics
;
Semiotics
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics-also known as structuralism-is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense. This is a comprehensive volume that brings together many otherwise fragmented academic disciplines and currents, uniting them in the framework of semiotic
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Chapter-1; Apologia; Part I; Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Semiotics; Chapter-2; Semiotics "Today": The Twentieth-Century Founding and Twenty-First-Century Prospects; 2.1 Preliminary Overview; 2.2 Outline of the Framework; 2.2.1 Standpoint of the Chapter; 2.2.2 Synchrony's Inevitable Seepage into Diachrony: The Historicity of Human Use of Signs; 2.2.3 The Nominalist Question; 2.2.4 The Actual Formation of a "Community of Inquirers" Focused on Signs; 2.3.1 The Initial Foundation Proposed in the Twentieth Century for a New "Science of Signs"
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.2 The Challenge to Saussure's Stipulative Foundation2.3.3 Shifting the Semiotic Enterprise to an Adequate Foundation; 2.3.4 Remodeling Anthroposemiosis as the Human Use of Signs; 2.3.5 Furthering the Foundation: An Action of Signs Beyond the Animal Umwelt; 2.3.6 The Place of Peirce, After Poinsot, in Displacing the Pars Pro Toto Fallacy; 2.3.7 Setting the Record Straight on What Semiotics Is All About; 2.3.8 "Science" or "Doctrine" of Signs?; 2.3.9 Does the Action of Signs Reach Even Beyond the Land of the Living?; 2.3.10 Semiotics in the Twenty-First Century's Dawn: Sebeok's Shaping Role
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.11 After Sebeok and Beyond: Completing the Compass of Semiotic Understanding2.4 Projecting What We Have Learned About Interdisciplinarity: From 330 BC to c. AD 2075; 2.4.1 Tracing from Within the Present a Long Trajectory; 2.4.2 The Triangle of Words, Thoughts, and Things; 2.4.3 Premodern Background to Understanding the Triangle; 2.4.4 Modern Attempts to Semanticize the Triangle; 2.4.5 Aristotle's Caveat on the Need to Understand the Triangle Through "An Investigation Distinct" from Inquiries into Logic and Language
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4.6 Causality and the Relationships Within and Constitutive of the Triangle2.4.6.1 Iconic dimension; 2.4.6.2 Symbolic dimension; 2.4.6.3 Indexical dimension as underlying; 2.4.6.4 Entanglement in language of culture with nature; 2.4.6.5 Primary modeling is not "langue"; 2.4.6.6 Diachrony preceding and succeeding "langue's" synchrony; 2.4.7 Brief Excursus on "Deconstruction"; 2.4.8 The Relationships Within and Constitutive of the Triangle; 2.4.8.1 The triangle side #1 between words and things; 2.4.8.2 "Common sense" and Saussure's model; 2.4.8.3 Other-representation vs. self-representation
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4.8.4 "Common sense" again2.4.8.5 The hidden third; 2.4.8.6 The triadic relation; 2.4.8.7 "Common speech" vs. "Langue "; 2.4.8.8 The triangle side #2 between words and things; 2.4.8.9 Experience presupposed to discovering signs; 2.4.8.10 The ascent from sensation; 2.4.8.11 Interaction as produing sensation; 2.4.8.12 Triadicity within sensation; 2.4.8.13 The triangle side #3 between words and things; 2.4.8.14 Words as symptoms vs. words as symbols; 2.4.8.15 The symptom side; 2.4.8.16 The symbol side; 2.4.8.17 Words as manifesting subjectivity
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4.8.18 Words as aiming to establish intersubjectivity
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