The Forms of Meaning

Sebeok, Thomas A.; Danesi, Marcel

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“…Although our understanding of semiotic systems has advanced ( [26,29]) and our computational tools have reached a high level of sophistication, we still do not have a satisfactory answer to the question of how meaning emerges in context. How people understand the ''Well'' in the above example is still a riddle to be solved, nevertheless, a riddle which is in the scope of our intellectual horizon.…”

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A theory of meaning

Neuman

2006

Information Sciences

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A theory of meaning

Neuman

2006

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“…And this is where the re-foundation of Thomas Sebeok and Marcel Danesi (2000) come in, based on the belief that the main objective of theoretical semiotics is to establish an ontological statute of signs, as well as to study the functions of signs.…”

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Manipulating Representations

Recchia-Luciani

2011

Biosemiotics

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The present paper proposes a definition for the complex polysemic concepts of consciousness and awareness (in humans as well as in other species), and puts forward the idea of a progressive ontological development of consciousness from a state of ‘childhood’ awareness, in order to explain that humans are not only able to manipulate objects, but also their mental representations. The paper builds on the idea of qualia intended as entities posing regular invariant requests to neural processes, trough the permanence of different properties. The concept of semantic differential introduces the properties of metaphorical qualia as an exclusively human ability. Furthermore this paper proposes a classification of qualia, according to the models–with different levels of abstraction–they are implied in, in a taxonomic perspective. This, in turn, becomes a source of categorization of divergent representations, sign systems, and forms of intentionality, relying always on biological criteria. New emerging image-of-the-world-devices are proposed, whose qualia are likely to be only accessible to humans: emotional qualia, where emotion accounts for the invariant and dominant property; and the qualic self where continuity, combined with the oneness of the self, accounts for the invariant and dominant property. The concept of congruence between different domains in a metaphor introduces the possibility of a general evaluation of truth and falsity of all kinds of metaphorical constructs, while the work of Matte Blanco enables us to classify conscious versus unconscious metaphors, both in individuals and in social organizations.

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“…He attributes the origin of biosemiotics, his 'principal contribution to general semiotics' (Sebeok 2001a:180), to his rediscovery of Uexküll's Umweltlehre, which inspired his definition of '[semiosis as] the processual engine which propels organisms to capture "external reality" and thereby come to terms with the cosmos in the shape of species-specific internal modeling systems.' (Sebeok 2001a, b:15) This non-species-specific terminology is the hallmark of Modeling Systems Theory (MST), an approach he articulated in The Forms of Meaning together with Marcel Danesi (2000), characterizing biosemiotics or global semiotics, as a comprehensive life science of nature and culture.…”

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Uexküll, Peirce, and Other Affinities Between Biosemiotics and Biolinguistics

Augustyn

2008

Biosemiotics

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. While both programs share theoretical influences and historiographical parallels in their mid-century origins continuing throughout the late twentieth century, recent articulations of biosemiotics and biolinguistics privilege different intellectual styles and methods of inquiry that define their future objectives as intellectual movements. The goal of this paper is to show that, in spite of the different scholarly agendas of biosemiotics and biolinguistics, both movements share a theoretical and philosophical core in Peirce and Uexküll.

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The Forms of Meaning

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