Dialogic Semiosis: An Essay on Signs and Meanings

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Indiana University Press, 1993 M01 22 - 380 pages

A study of C. S. Peirce's conception of the sign, with a critique of Saussure and Hjelmslev, Dialogic Semiosis presents a semiotics of the production, transmission, and interpretation of signs in human communication. Jørgen Dines Johansen studies the process of sign creation, how signs fulfill their office of transmitting information between human agents, chiefly through a study of human speech.

In the first part of the book, Johansen focuses on Hjelmslev's concept of the sign and the study of semiotic systems. In Part II, he undertakes a detailed explication of Peirce's concepts of the process of signification with the intention of inducing readers to think semiotics with Peirce. In the conclusion, Johansen analyzes a specific micro system from both Hjelmslevian and Peircean perspectives and summarizes the basic features of an intentionally produced semiotic.

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Signs without Worlds 3
3
Sign and Object
55
The Icon Index Symbol Distinction
90
Copyright

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TitleDialogic Semiosis: An Essay on Signs and Meanings
AuthorJorgen Dines Johansen
PublisherIndiana University Press, 1993
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized12 Feb 2008
ISBN0253330998, 9780253330994
Length380 pages
  
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