| Description |
ix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Advances in semiotics
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Advances in semiotics.
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| Note |
Original title: Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 227-235. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Signs -- Crisis of a Concept -- The Signs of an Obstinacy -- Intension and Extension -- Elusive Solutions -- The Deconstruction of the Linguistic Sign -- Signs vs. Words -- The Stoics -- Unification of the Theories and the Predominance of Linguistics -- The 'Instructional' Model -- Strong Codes and Weak Codes -- Abduction and Inferential Nature of Signs -- The Criterion of Interpretability -- Sign and Subject -- Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia -- Porphyry Strikes Back -- Critique of the Porphyrian Tree -- Encyclopedias -- Metaphor -- The Metaphoric Nexus -- Traditional Definitions -- Aristotle: Synecdoche and Porphyrian Tree -- Aristotle: Metaphors of Three Terms -- Aristotle: the Proportional Scheme -- Proportion and Condensation -- Dictionary and Encyclopedia -- The Cognitive Function -- The Semiosic Background: the System of Content -- The Limits of Formalization -- Componential Representation and the Pragmatics of the Text -- Conclusions -- Symbol -- Genus and Species -- Expressions by Ratio Facilis -- Expressions Produced by Ratio Difficilis -- The Symbolic Mode -- Semiotics of the Symbolic Mode -- Conclusions -- Code -- The Rise of a New Category -- The Landslide Effect -- Codes and Communication -- Codes as S-codes -- Cryptography and Natural Languages -- S-codes and Signification -- The Genetic Code -- Toward a Provisional Conclusion -- Isotopy -- Discursive Isotopies within Sentences with Paradigmatic Disjunction -- Discursive Isotopies within Sentences with Syntagmatic Disjunction -- Discursive Isotopies between Sentences with Paradigmatic Disjunction -- Discursive Isotopies between Sentences with Syntagmatic Disjunction -- Narrative Isotopies Connected with Isotopic Discursive Disjunctions Generating Mutually Exclusive Stories -- Narrative Isotopies Connected with Isotopic Discursive Disjunctions that Generate Complementary Stories -- Narrative Isotopies Connected with Discursive Isotopic Disjunctions that Generate Complementary Stories in Each Case -- Extensional Isotopies -- Provisional Conclusions -- Mirrors -- Is the Mirror image a Sign? -- The Imaginary and the Symbolic -- Getting in through the Mirrow -- A Phenomenology of the Mirror: the Mirror Does not Invert - A Pragmatics of the Mirrow -- The Mirror as a Prosthesis and a Channel -- Absolute Icons -- Mirrors as Rigid Designators -- On Signs -- Why Mirrors Do Not Produce Signs -- Fraks: Distorting Mirrors -- Procatoptric Staging -- Rainbows and Fata Morganas -- Catoptric Theaters -- Mirrors that 'Freeze' Images -- The Experimentum Crucis |
| Subject |
Semiotics.
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Semiotics. |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
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Sémiotique. |
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Langage et langues -- Philosophie. |
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Semiotiek. |
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Lenguas -- Filosofía.
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| Added Title |
Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio
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| ISBN |
0253351685 |
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9780253351685 |
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