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25Self-referential postmodernitySemiotica 2011 (183): 199-217. 2011.Contrary to the early media semioticians' claim that semiotics is a metalanguage of the media and the media are a metalanguage of reality, the present paper gives evidence of how the media represent a world that is itself highly mediated. It is argued that media representations involve self-referential loops in which communication turns out to be communication about communication, reports are reports about reports, and mediations are mediations of mediations. Self-reference in the media is inter…Read more
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1237Peircean visual semiotics: Potentials to be exploredSemiotica 2015 (207): 657-673. 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2015 Heft: 207 Seiten: 657-673
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2Handbook of SemioticsIndiana University Press. 1995."This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yet published." --Choice "A bravura performance." --Thomas Sebeok "Nöth's handbook is an outstanding encyclopedia that provides first-rate information on many facets of sign-related studies, research results, and applications." --Social Sciences in General
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13Some Neglected Semiotic Premises of Some Radically Constructivist ConclusionsConstructivist Foundations 7 (1): 12-14. 2011.Open peer commentary on the target article “From Objects to Processes: A Proposal to Rewrite Radical Constructivism” by Siegfried J. Schmidt. Upshot: The paper examines some of S. J. Schmidt’s key concepts from a semiotic perspective. It argues that not all of them are as incompatible with key notions of semiotics as the author claims and that, even though others remain indeed irreconcilable, some of the latter may contribute to extending radical constructivism beyond its own new horizons
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37Semiotic foundations of the study of picturesSign Systems Studies 31 (2): 377-391. 2003.Are pictures signs? That pictures are signs is evident in the case of pictures that “represent”, but is not “representation” a synonym of “sign”, and if so, can non-representational paintings be considered signs? Some semioticians have declared that such pictures cannot be signs because they have no referent, and in phenomenology the opinion prevails that they are not signs because they are phenomena sui generis. The present approach follows C. S. Peirce’s semiotics: representational and non-rep…Read more
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1463The criterion of habit in Peirce's definitions of the symbolTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (1): 82-93. 2010.
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29Charles S. Peirce's Egyptological StudiesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (4): 483. 2016.In his Lowell Lectures on “Some Topics of Logic,” Lecture VIII of 1903, Charles S. Peirce, looking back at his career as a historian of science, declared the following: On five occasions in my life, and on five occasions only, I have had an opportunity of testing my Abductions about historical facts, by the fulfillment of my predictions in subsequent archeological or other discoveries; and on each one of those five occasions my conclusions, which in every case ran counter to that of the highest …Read more
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3016Umberto Eco's semiotic thresholdSign Systems Studies 28 49-60. 2000.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…Read more
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