Iconicity: A Fundamental Problem in Semiotics - Softcover

9788787564809: Iconicity: A Fundamental Problem in Semiotics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8787564807 ISBN 13: 9788787564809

Publisher: NSU Press, 1999

The concept of iconicity has been pivotal in a new interest taken in semiotics over the recent years. Not only as an abstract notion of the fundamental possibility in general semiotics, that is of firstness as its originator Charles Sanders Pierce has it, but also as a key concept for the particular semiotic understanding of the logical interrelations between the world and cognition, and of course between the world and its images. In the wake of the interest, it has finally become possible to speak openly in semiotic circles of the obvious iconic aspects of semiosis.

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Synopsis

In a new interest in semiotics over recent years, the concept of iconicity has been pivotal. Not just as an abstract notion of the fundamental 'possibility' in general semiotics, i.e. of firstness, as its originator Charles Sanders Peirce has it, but also as a key concept for the particular semiotic understanding of the logical interrelations between the world and its images! In the wake of this interest, it has finally become possible to speak openly in semiotic circles of the obvious iconic aspects of semiotics.This volume features eleven articles on general and very specific problems pertaining to the semiotic concept of iconicity. Its contributors not only represent one, but in fact most of the basic semiotic 'schools' or approaches to be found in Scandinavia today. Setting off from a couple of critical apologies for the concept of iconicity in semiotics, these articles outline a number of contexts and perspectives urgent to a contemporary study of iconicity and its relevance for the theory and analysis of signification.

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