Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs

This book takes up the most important of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical interest for a general semiotics. Peirce’s career as a logician spanned almost half a century, during which time he produced several increasingly complex sign systems. The best-known, from 1903, included a signifying process involving sign, object and interpretant, the universally known icon-index-symbol division and, finally, a system of 10 distinct classes of signs. Peirce subsequently expanded this signifying process to include 2 objects, the sign and 3 interpretants; however, in the 5 years between 1903 and his final systems of 1908, he introduced a number of highly innovative semiotic concepts which he never developed. Among these concepts is hypoiconicity, which comprises 3 levels of isomorphism holding between sign and object and offers an interesting alternative to the traditional literal-figurative distinction in the analysis of verbal and non-verbal signs, in spite of the mutations the subdivisions of the icon subsequently underwent. Another is semiosis, which Peirce introduced and defined in 1907 but rarely illustrated. This is shown to be a far more complex signifying process than the well-known three-correlate definition of 1903. Exploring the changing theoretical background to the introduction of these new concepts, this book identifies and explains these developments.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Release date:	2024
Authors:	Tony Jappy
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-28881-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-350-28881-0
Barcode:	9781350288812

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