Title Semiotic Insights : the Data Do the Talking

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (325 pages) Series Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication Toronto studies in semiotics and communication. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Leitmotifs at the Nexus of Semiotics and Linguistics -- PART ONE -- 1 Semiotics: A Fire in the Belly -- Deconstruction -- Prototype Theory -- Compatibility of Paradigms -- 2 Saussure: Roots of Today's Linguistics -- Language/Life -- Linguistics/Semiotics as Science -- Nineteenth-Century Science -- Saussure and Diachrony -- Nineteenth-Century Linguistics -- Linguistic Analogy and Semiotic Abduction -- Physics' Law and Biology's Growth -- 3 Linguistics and Semiotics Juxtaposed -- 1 -- Linguistics -- The Sign System Par Excellence -- The Language Inlay -- Defining Language -- 1 -- Linguistic Semiotics -- Semiotic Linguistics -- 4 Peirce and Linguistics -- Linguists and Firstness -- Peirce qua Linguist -- Peirce before Sapir-Whorf -- 5 Semiotics and Metalanguage -- Metalanguage and Object Language -- Object Semiotic -- Object Language -- 6 Language as Inlay in Semiosis -- Defining Language -- 2 -- Universal Semantic Primitives: Length [L] -- [L] in Language -- [L] in Paralanguage -- [L] in Music -- [L] in Architecture -- Abductive Processing of Features -- Illation and the Signifying Animal -- 7 The Narrative Inlay in Semiosis -- Nonverbal Sign Theory -- Attitudes toward Narrativity -- Narrative versus Nonnarrative -- Action Theory and Inferential Structure -- 8 Narrative Configurated with Text and Discourse -- Dictionary Definition -- Text and Discourse -- Text = First, Discourse = Second, Narrative = Third -- 9 Protosemiotic -- Medicine -- Symptom -- Meaning -- Self -- Medicine and Biology -- Medicine and Psychology -- Medicine and Linguistics -- Medicine and Anthropology -- 10 Protosemiotists -- Central Figures -- Oehler and Peirce -- Posner on Morris -- Krampen on Saussure -- Trabant on Hjelmslev -- Eco on Jakobson -- Sebeok on Bühler -- Uexküll on Uexküll -- Baer on Sebeok Semiotic Architectonic -- 11 Semiotics: At the Turn of the Millennium -- State of the Art -- A Canon and Theses for Semiotics -- Tolerance and Openness -- Eco's Hope -- PART TWO -- 12 Spelling of Sounds and Iconism -- Variant Spellings -- Hermeneutics and Phantom Icons -- 13 Accompanying Sound: Paralanguage -- Delineating Paralanguage -- Drawl in a Dead Language -- 14 Causality -- Causation in Linguistics -- Secondness Driving Physiological Fact -- 15 Analogy -- Analogy in Linguistics -- Secondness Driving Analogy -- 16 Linguistics and Semiotics Juxtaposed -- 2 -- Complementary Tools -- Mutual Scientific Influence -- 17 A Language Evolves -- External Signs -- Internal Signs -- Tracing a Hallmark Sign -- Competing Signs -- New Growth -- 18 Interlingual Translation of Signs -- Interlanguage and Historical Text -- Cognizing the Text -- Saussure's Axes -- Saussure's Chessboard -- Toward Isomorphism -- 19 Language Change/Growth Begins -- Two Intralingual Naive Texts -- Three Printing Errors -- Abduction = Essential Preliminary Trigger -- 20 The Lie -- Defining Language -- 3 -- Detecting the Lie -- Two Telephone Scenarios -- Lying in One Language Better than in Another -- Conclusion: Facts and Human Factors -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z Summary This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch provides a lucid narrative on the nature of semiotics and linguistics, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Semiotics. Linguistics. Linguistics linguistics. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. REFERENCE -- Word Lists. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary. Linguistics Semiotics Linguistik Semiotik Semiotiek. Sprache -- Semiotik. Semiotik -- Sprache. Linguistik -- Semiotik -- Aufsatzsammlung. Semiotik -- Linguistik -- Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book LC no. 00265976 ISBN 9781442679764 144267976X 1282042157 9781282042155 9786612042157 661204215X

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