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DAVID LIDOV

ELEMENTS OF SEMIOTICS--CONTENTS

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Foreword

PART I. THE PROVENANCE OF SEMIOTICS—Introduction

1. What Is Semiotics About?

"Sign" As An Everyday Term And "Sign" As A Technical Term
"Sign" As A Formal Concept
What Isn't Semiotics? 2. Consciousness Of Signs Restraining The Sign
Releasing The Sign
Sign Consciousness Today 3.Concepts Of Sign The Latin Tradition
John Locke
Charles Morris
Artificial Languages--Leibnitz And Frege
Linguistics—Saussure
Semiotics As A Foundation For Philosophy--Charles Peirce
The Sign As Social Fact--The Prague Circle 4.Critical Phenomena Of Semiosis Physical, Biological, And Semiosic Phenomena
What Are The Critical Phenomena?
Plan Of The Work PART II. SIGN SYSTEMS--Introduction

5. Vocabulary

Speech And Language
Signifier And Signified--The Word As Basic Unit
Signification And Value
Combination And Association
Diachronic And Synchronic 6.Function Bühler And The Prague Functionalists
Jakobson's Six Functions
Semiotics And Aesthetics
Some More Recent Versions
Nattiez--Pathological Semiotics
Structuralism And Functionalism 7.Syntax The Shape Of The Problem
Some Characteristics Of The Theory
Tools Of The Theory
Syntax And Semantics
Syntax And Text
Grammar And Consciousness
A Quarrel Over Representation 8. The Reality Of System In A Universe Of Change Bakhtin's Critique Of Saussure In Marxism And The Philosophy Of Language
Dialogue And Monologue
Unanswered Questions
Mukarovsky's "Social Norm"
The Role Of Rules: Systems As Limits PART III. ANALYSIS OF THE SIGN--Introduction

9. Peirce's Problematics For The Sign

Some Aspects Of Peirce's Work
Philosophical Foundations
Two Notions Of Sign: Designate And Situate
The Analysis Of Signs Into Factors
Typology
Minds 10. Psychological Aspects Of Signification Items And Processes
Items As Inner Or Outer
Consciousness Itself
Relations Among Items Of Consciousness 11. What Is A Sign? Definition Of Sign
Representamen
Object
Interpretant
Contexts
Designated Signs
Some Enigmas Of The Sign
Sign Analyses-- Preliminary Examples 12. Boundaries Of Semiosis Three Dualities
The Emergence Of Semiosis
Should We Allow For Unconscious Representation? PART IV ELABORATIONS OF THE SIGN--Introduction

13. Articulation

Divisions
Differences
Features
Binary Oppositions
Boundaries And Regions
Systems of Representatives
Vectors
Hierarchy
Markedness
Double Articulation
Articulation And Reference: Are There Semantic Universals? 14.The Elaboration Of Reference Three Aspects Of Reference In Language: Designation, Analysis, And Modality
Expression 15. Double Structure: Grammar And Pattern In Texts Elements In Grammatical Analysis: Categories And Forms
Elements In Pattern Analysis: Units And Sets
Preliminary Examples Pattern And Grammar In Rhetoric: Jefferson's Declaration Of Independence
Pattern And Grammar In A Song 16. The Text In Context The Figures Of Closure And Autonomy
The Position Of The Observer - Varela, Thompson, And Rosch
The Figure Of Discourse
The Figure Of Dialogue
Figures Of Rhetoric 17. Processive Signs--Ritual, Symbol, And Art Process As Representamen--Ritual
Process As Object—Symbols
Process As Interpretant--Works Of Art
Suppression Of The Object
Conditions Which Induce The Processes Of The Processive Sign
Further Examples PART V. TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE SEMIOTICS--Introduction

18. Artful And Artificial Languages

Notations
Models
Diagrams
Formal Graphs: Diagrams As Notational Systems
Computer Languages And Narratives
Concepts, Games And Play 19. Signs In The Visual Arts The Articulation Schemata Of Pictures
Depiction
Visual Inflection
Modality And Designation In Pictures
The Picture As A Text And As A Whole
Visual Art In Industrial Design And Architecture 20. Melody The Representamen
Movement As An Object Of Melodic Representation
An Interpretant Of The Motional Object
Emotion As An Object Of Music
Performance And Notation 21. Concept And Expressivity In Art The Funeral March Of Beethoven's Eroica
The Jerusalem Windows Of Marc Chagall (Joseph)
Unlimited Variety
Are Comparisons Odious? PART VI. CONSEQUENCES--Introduction

22. Semiotics And The Problem Of Free Will

Deliberation
Reasons And Influences
Freewill Is Not A Faculty Of The Individual
But Isn't Real Freedom Physically Impossible? 23. Semiotics And The Aims Of Education

Elementary Considerations
"Media Studies" And "Communication Studies"

Notes
References
Index Of Terms
Index Of Persons

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