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" A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates... "
Art and Representation: Contributions to Contemporary Aesthetics
edited by - 2001 - 282 pages
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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 68 - (Supplement 31)

Allen Kent - 2000 - 396 pages
...Related terms are icon, image, picture, and token. CS Peirce, a noted semiotician, defined a sign as "something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity." The concept of sign is central to semiology. It represents a "combination of concepts and sound images"...
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MHD. Mental Health Digest, Volume 4

1972 - 756 pages
...really being affected by that object (eg, a low barometer as an index of rain). A symbol, however, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. Dyadic events are, presumably, those energy exchanges conventionally studied by the natural sciences:...
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Culture and Practical Reason

Marshall Sahlins - 1976 - 266 pages
...production of a I. Compare the economist's "utility" with CS Peirce's general notion of the sign as "something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity" ( 1932, chap. 2, p. 228). symbolically significant difference; in the case of the consumer market,...
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The Road of Inquiry, Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Realism

Peter Skagestad - 1981 - 288 pages
...involved in semiosis. The clearest statement of these trivisions is found in a manuscript from 1897: A sign, or representamen, is something which stands...sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but...
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Words, Worlds, and Contexts: New Approaches in Word Semantics

Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer, Hannes Rieser - 1981 - 532 pages
...representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It adresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person...developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interprétant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object,...
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A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of ...

Christine Brooke-Rose - 1981 - 460 pages
...replaces, for someone, something in a certain aspect or position. It is addressed to someone, that is, it creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a barely developed sign' (1955:99). Pierce alters the Saussurean definition of the sign (referent, signifier...
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Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way

E. Valentine Daniel - 1987 - 340 pages
...classification of signs, however, let us examine the semeiotic sign in general, as Peirce defined it for us: "A sign, or representamen, is something which stands...equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. The sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something,...
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Theorie und Metatheorie: Reflexionen auf politikwissenschaftliche Motive ...

Jörg Klawitter - 2002 - 220 pages
...Interpretant, der mittels seines Zeichensystems über das Zeichen als solches das Objekt „erkennt": „A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect •or capacitiy. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or...
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Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems

Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter Bøgh Andersen, El-Sayed Abou-Zeid, Ronald K. Stamper - 2002 - 336 pages
...definition, we can use the Semiotic Triangle about which we already agree with Peirce: "A sign ... is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity." As Peirce states, this creates another sign, which he calls "the interpretant of the first sign." A...
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Mouton Classics: From Syntax to Cognition, from Phonology to Text, Volume 1

Mouton Publishers - 2002 - 888 pages
...in the dynamics of endosemioses? In Peirce's definition of 'sign', this 'self is 'somebody': 'A sign is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity' (CP 2.228-303). Here 'somebody' is a receiver of signs and lacks 'something' which is shown to him...
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