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9This review article of Frederik Stjernfelt’s Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism (2022) argues that Peirce’s theory of iconicity with its subdivision into the image-diagram-metaphor triad must not be reduced to diagrammatic iconicity. The foundation of the triadic subdivision of the icon is not in Peirce’s diagrammatic logic but in Peirce’s cenopythagorean categories. A focus is on misinterpretations of Peirce’s concept of thirdness in the firstness of the icon. The paper argues that not only metaphor…Read more
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76From Representation to Thirdness and Representamen to Medium: Evolution of Peircean Key Terms and TopicsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 47 (4): 445-481. 2011.The nature of representation has been a central but controversial issue of cognitive philosophy. After 2,500 years of reflection (cf. Rolf 2006), opinions are still divided. On the one hand, there are those who are convinced that we have reached a crisis of representation in the arts, the media, and cultural theory; on the other hand, representation has remained right at the top of the agenda of cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence research (cf. Nöth & Ljungberg, eds. 2003; Nöth 1997). …Read more
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8System, Sign, Information, and Communication in Cybersemiotics, Systems Theory, and PeirceIn Carlos Vidales & Søren Brier (eds.), Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective, Springer Verlag. pp. 75-95. 2021.The chapter outlines cybersemiotics in relation to the research fields of systems theory and semiotics in general. It introduces and defines the key concepts of the first, second, and third generations of systems theory and gives a survey of systems theoretical approaches to general and cultural semiotics. The author argues that the notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems th…Read more
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25Peirce’s legacy for contemporary consciousness studies, the emergence of consciousness from qualia, and its evanescence in habitsSemiotica 2021 (243): 49-103. 2021.The paper argues that contemporary consciousness studies can profit from Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of consciousness. It confronts mainstream tendencies in contemporary consciousness studies, including those which consider consciousness as an unsolvable mystery, with Peirce’s phenomenological approach to consciousness. Peirce’s answers to the following contemporary issues are presented: phenomenological consciousness and the qualia, consciousness as self-controlled agency of humans, self-con…Read more
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15Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the hegemony of psychological and sociological constructions of learning in order to develop a burgeoning literature in semiotics as an educational foundation. Drawing on theoretical research and its application in empirical studies, the book attempts to avoid the problematization of the distinction between theory and practice in semiotics. It covers topics such as signs, significance and semiosis; the ontol…Read more
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12Time embodied as space in graphic narratives: A study in applied Peircean semioticsSemiotica 2020 (236-237): 297-318. 2020.The paper is a study of how graphic narratives (graphic novels and the comics) represent time in external visual space as well as in inner (mental) representations. Peirce’s semiotics is the main tool of research. After a survey of various approaches to the study of time in narratives in general and in graphic narratives in particular, an outline of the various aspects of the embodiment of time in space in general is given before the forms of the embodiment of time in the space of graphic narrat…Read more
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19On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s RulesSemiotica 2019 (228): 223-235. 2019.Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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11Charles Sanders Peirce, Pathfinder in LinguisticsThe Commens Encyclopedia: The Digital Encyclopedia of Peirce Studies. 2000.Charles Sanders Peirce was a polymath who made significant contributions to many fields of study, from phenomenology to astronomy and from physics to metaphysics. In his writings of some 12,000 pages published, and some 90,000 manuscript pages still unpublished during his lifetime, language and linguistics are among the recurrent topics. In fact, the second paper in the chronology of Peirce’s professional writings was on the pronunciation of Shakespearean English. However, Peirce’s papers on lan…Read more
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27Translation as semiotic mediationSign Systems Studies 40 (3/4): 279-298. 2012.Translation, according to Charles S. Peirce, is semiotic mediation. In sign processes in general, the sign mediates between the object, which it represents, and its interpretant, the idea it evokes, the interpretation it creates, or the action it causes. To what extent does the way a translator mediates correspond to what a sign does in semiosis? The paper inquires into the parallels between the agency of the sign in semiosis and the agency of the interpreter (and translator) in translation. It …Read more
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545Representations of imaginary, nonexistent, or nonfigurative objectsCognitio 7 (2): 277-291. 2006.According to the logical positivists, signs (words and pictures) of imaginary beings have no referent (Goodman). The semiotic theory behind this assumption is dualistic and Cartesian: signs vs. nonsigns as well as the mental vs. the material world are in fundamental opposition. Peirce’s semiotics is based on the premise of the sign as a mediator between such opposites: signs do not refer to referents, they represent objects to a mind, but the object of a sign can be existent or nonexistent, a fe…Read more
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3238Yuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheresSemiotica 2006 (161): 249-263. 2006.
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22Peircean Semiotics in the Study of Iconicity in LanguageTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35 (3). 1999.
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31Handbook of SemioticsIndiana University Press. 1990.History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.
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17The Semiotics of Learning New WordsJournal of Philosophy of Education 48 (3): 446-456. 2014.In several of his papers, Charles S. Peirce illustrates processes of interpreting and understanding signs by examples from second language vocabulary teaching and learning. The insights conveyed by means of these little pedagogical scenarios are not meant as contributions to the psychology of second language learning, but they aim at elucidating fundamental semiotic implications of knowledge acquisition in general. Peirce's semiotic premise that a well-understood sign is one that represents an o…Read more
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2412Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of natureSign Systems Studies 29 (1): 219-234. 2001.Ecosemiotics is the study of sign processes (semioses) in relation to the natural environment in which they occur. The paper examines the cultural, biological, and evolutionary dimensions of ecosemioses on the basis of C. S. Peirce's theory of continuity between matter and mind and investigates the ecosemiotic dimensions of natural signs. Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature are distinguished from pansemiotism, and the coevolution of sign processes with their natural enviromnent is discussed…Read more
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1549Protosemiotics and physicosemioticsSign Systems Studies 29 (1): 13-26. 2001.Protosemiotics is the study of the rudiments of semiosis, primarily in nature. The extension of the semiotic field from culture to nature is both necessary and possible in the framework of Peirce's semiotic theory. Against this extension, the critique of pansemiotism has been raised. However, Peirce's semiotics is not pansemiotic since it is based on the criterion of thirdness, which is not ubiquitous in nature. The paper examines the criteria of protosemiosis in the domain of physical and mecha…Read more
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2Семиотические основания к изучению изображений. РезюмеSign Systems Studies 31 (2): 392-392. 2003.
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20Self-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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1097Peircean 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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1Handbook 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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