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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808963403321

Autore

Parret Herman

Titolo

Semiotics and pragmatics [[electronic resource] ] : an evaluative comparison of conceptual frameworks / / Herman Parret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 1983

ISBN

1-283-35946-4

9786613359469

90-272-8032-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0166-6258 ; ; IV:7

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Semiotics

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This monograph originated in a series of seminars delivered at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 1981-1982."--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS An Evaluative Comparison of Conceptual Frameworks; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; 0. INTRODUCTION: SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS - THEIR UNITY AND DIVERSITY; (I) Normative semiotics, analytical semiotics, structural semiotics; (II) Pragmatism, pragmatics, pragmaticism; 1. SEMIOTICS AS A PARADIGM; 1.1. First Philosophies; (I) The teleology of First Philosophies; (II) The logical order of paradigmatical categories; 1.2. The semiotic subdisciplines and their intermediation; (I) Tridimensional semiotics

(II) The three subdisciplines and their perverse counterparts(III) Morris'shift; (IV) Grice and Carnap; (V) Quine and Gadamer; (VI) Poverty of semiotics and richness of semiosis; 1.3. Normative Semiotics; (I) Hegel, Marx, Heidegger; (II) Object, sign, subject; (III) Four types of semiotic circuits; (IV) Presentation, articulation, presentification; 2. THE TWO SEMIOTICS: PEIRCE AND HJELMSLEV; 2.1. The nature of semiotics; 2.1.1. Contexts of origin; (I) Between psychology and sociology; (II) Deflecting from the origin; 2.1.2. Triadism and dyadism of the sign relation

(I) Trichotomic classifications(II) Linearity, temporality, and



dichotomies; (III) The boundaries between the semiotic and the non-semiotic; (IV) The foundation of semiotics; (V) Sign as a relation versus sign as an action; 2.1.3. Semiosis, significance and communicability; (I) From 'meaning versus commu nication' to 'significance and communicability; (II) Communion, community, communality; (III) Co-textual context and communicational context; (IV) The Homeric struggle; (V) Frege and Wittgenstein; (VI) The fate of third terms

(VII) A 'degree of combination ' o f significance and communicability2.2. The object of semiotics; 2.2.1. Relations, rules, and strategies; (I) The network of relations and the semiotic production of signification; (II) Sense as transposition o f sense; (III) Networks of presciptions; (IV) Doctrines and their supplements; 2.2.2. The Principle of Descriptibility and the Principle of Prescriptibility; (I) Linguistic form, semiotic form, scientific form; (II) Paraphrastic, descriptive, and metalinguistic articulation; (III) The salvage function of axiomatic principles

2.2.3. Determinacy and indeterminacy of sense(I) Frege and Wittgenstein again; (II) Wittgenstein II: Vagueness and indeterminacy; (III) Prescriptibility and non-determined meaning; (IV) Phenomenological indeterminacy and transpositive indeterminacy; (V) Back to presentification and normative semiotics; 2.3. The method of semiotics; 2.3.1. Hypothetico-deduction, induction, and abduction; (I) The inadequacy of inductivism and deductivism; (II) Observation and conceptualization; (III) Against scientism; (IV) Against empiricism; (V) Against objectivism; (VI) Yet abduction

2.3.2. Metalanguage, description, paraphrase

Sommario/riassunto

Looking at the 'semiotic landscape' - the panorama of constituted semiotics - two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called 'Continental' semioticians refer to the sign theory in Saussure and in its interpretation by Hjelmslev (for instance, the École sémiotique de Paris). Evaluating each other's projects, methods, and results could lead to a balanced view. The purpose of this monograph is to get the best out of the adequate insights f