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Dialogic Semiosis An Essay on Signs and Meanings

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ISBN-10: 0253330998

ISBN-13: 9780253330994

Edition: 1993

Authors: Jorgen Dines Johansen, Jorgen D. Johansen

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A study of C. S. Peirce's conception of the sign, with a critique of Saussure and Hjelmslev, Dialogic Semiosis presents a semiotics of the production, transmission, and interpretation of signs in human communication. JA, rgen Dines Johansen studies the process of sign creation, how signs fulfill their office of transmitting information between human agents, chiefly through a study of human speech. In the first part of the book, Johansen focuses on Hjelmslev's concept of the sign and the study of semiotic systems. In Part II, he undertakes a detailed explication of Peirce's concepts of the process of signification with the intention of inducing readers to think semiotics with Peirce. In the…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/22/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Preface
Signs without Worlds
Signs without Worlds
The circuit of speech, the sign, and the repression of communication
Hjelmslev's concepts of the sign
The relationship between language and thought in glossematics
Signs without worlds. the formal nature of linguistic analysis
Content form and content substance
Naturam expellere furca...
Sign, Object, Interpretant
Sign and Object
The general nature of the sign
The sign as representamen
Qualisign, sinsign, legisign
The objects of the sign
Remarks on Peirce's concepts of reality and truth
The Icon, Index, Symbol Distinction
Ground and interpretant
The pure icon and the iconic sign
Images, diagrams, and metaphors
Features of the iconic sign
The indexical sign
The symbolic sign
Logical and developmental features of the icon, index, symbol distinction
The Interpretants
Extension, comprehension, information
Translation, synonymity, and use
Infinite interpretation
The divisions of the interpretant
Rheme, dicisign, argument, and the ten classes of signs
The division of arguments: deduction, induction, and abduction
A Dialogic Model of Semiosis
Elements of Human Communication
Utterer and interpreter
Individuality and the ethics of inquiry
The contract of dialogue
Universes of discourse
The common ground
The utterance and the icon, index, symbol distinction
Code and reference
A Dialogic Model of Semiosis
The semiotic pyramid
The axes
The triangular planes of the pyramid
Beliefs, Rhetoric, and the Validity Basis of Speech
The fixation of belief
The presuppositions of rhetoric
The validity claims of speech
Semiotics and universal pragmatics
Light
Light
The traffic light as a system: Hjelmslev's analysis
A pragmatic interpretation of the traffic light
Basic properties of an intentionally produced semiotic
Bibliography
Index