An Introduction to Empirical Semiotics and the Semiotic Paradigm

Explicates the Semiotic Paradigm and devotes a chapter to each subparadigm, such as Philosophy of Semiotics; Experimental Semiotics; Search for Invariant Patterns; Theoretical Semiotics; Applied Semiotics; Mathematical Semiotics; and New Ways of Thinking - New Worldviews.

DEGRES-REVUE DE SYNTHESE A ORIENTATION SEMIOLOGIQUE, 2024

It is fascinating to observe the evolution of semiotics, which was once considered a passing trend but has now matured into a multifaceted discipline with significant interactions across various fields. The fact that semiotics, focusing on interpreting all types of signs and elucidating their production processes and underlying motivations, has reached this stage is not surprising. Semiotics, which initially interacted with literary studies to develop itself, test its limits, and put forward a systematic and reliable analytical reasoning model, today interacts with various fields of science. Due to this characteristic, semiotics is an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and even a meta-disciplinary domain or an intermediary sphere. However, despite the passage of decades, it is evident that there is still no clear definition of what semiotics is. Therefore, there will be no clear idea about what semiotics is not when it is not known what it is. This quite confusing dialectic has been in existence for a long time. Whether this situation regarding the definition of semiotics is a unique qualitative feature of semiotics or a blurring of ideas caused by different types of views is debatable. This situation of semiotics has the potential to be the subject of discussion in many more studies in different contexts. In the first part of this study, a discussion on the identity of semiotics will be made. The discussion will elucidate whether semiotics is amid an identity crisis and its reasons. In the second part, the interaction of semiotics with other knowledge domains, the role of this interaction in determining its boundaries will be discussed in the context of some descriptive features used for it, and an evaluation will be made on the general situation that emerged in the conclusion.

Prior to any consideration of mathematical applications to a given field of inquiry is the question of observation and quantification of results: both of which must precede, and are independent of mathematics.

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012

The quantitative increase in recent years of research into semiotics, among other methods of reading works of art, is notable. Since semiotics is the act of reading as based on a metalanguage that is constructed and grounded in logic, understanding the methods applied by the field requires time and experience. In addition, the application of models that differ in relation to each other under different schools of thought and under different names makes its yet more difficult to comprehend the field of semiotics. Despite the different models that are available, approaches display certain commonalities as they are born of the same foundations and objectives. This study will aim to pinpoint the common aspects of the intellectual foundations, methods, objectives and research limitations of the different schools of thought and the models that are involved in the study of semiotics.

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In this paper we present an overview of semiotics with particular emphasis on those concepts that offer promise to psychologists. We make no pretense that we are able to represent semiotics as that term is always used. We believe that most semioticians would agree, however, that semiotic theory offers the position that a wide variety of problems in modern inquiry, taken from a number of different disciplines, are actually special cases of one general set of problems: What is a sign? How does it work? How can I use it? Once the commonalities among all these inquiries are recognized, a substantial bonus is realized: researchers from a variety of disciplines who adopt a semiotic viewpoint become able to communicate across those disciplines and share valuable insights. We conclude with a series of short reviews of books on semiotics.

SHORT COURSE of GENERAL SEMIOTICS, 2022

My first book on semiotics was published in Moscow in 1992; it was called "Language as a Sign System". After that, I wrote and published many books and articles, trying to understand the intricacies of semiotics and highlight its main characteristics. Over time, some of my views have undergone metamorphoses, and I have adjusted my earlier statements to express new formulations. Now, on the threshold of my 95th birthday, I want to sum up my vacillations and doubts in a short concluding essay, which seems to me worthy of attention. Whether this is really so, is for the readers to judge. I want to say a few words about what general semiotics means. De facto, semiotics originated in ancient Greece and Rome − no science or craft can exist without its own signs. But only at the end of the 19th century did a movement arise for the creation of semiotics that would formulate general principles for all branches of this science. In contrast to particular semiotics, such science can be called general semiotics.

This paper describes the current status of semiotic theory as having several good theories alongside very many bad ones and that the general practitioners of our discipline fail to differentiate between them and sometimes fail to make any distinction at all.

Semiotics, 2010

Peirce begins his theology with one fundamental principle: "Everything is nothing but God". From this one principle, he derives his entire "Theology of Evolutionary Love", which became the foundation for an important branch of 20 th century theology, Tables 1, 2, and 3. However, this principle is inconsistent with most ontologies. Peirce had to stop and develop a new ontology, which he calls "transcendental metaphysics". To make transcendental metaphysics rigorously consistent with the ontological principle, he had to develop a whole new logic and a new way of thinking (the Principle of Genuine Doubt), a new understanding of truth (the ultimate consensus of the entire community of investigators), a new theory of meaning with a strange and very subtle third component (the Pragmatistic Principle), a whole new set of ontological categories (firstness, secondness, and thirdness), and the newest and most revolutionary of all sciences -semiotics, (see ).