Peirce's Doctrine of Signs : : Theory, Applications, and Connections / / ed. by Thomas M. Olshewsky, Vincent M. Colapietro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Braga, Lucia Santaella,; Brunet, François,; Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Daube-Schackat, Roland,; Debrock, Guy,; Deely, John,; Elgin, Catherine Z.,; Factor, R. Lance,; Ferraresi, Mauro,; Fitzgerald, John J.,; Freadman, Anne,; Freundlieb, Dieter,; Hausman, Carl R.,; Heusden, Barend van,; Howard, Vernon A.,; Jappy, Anthony,; Johansen, Jørgen Dines,; Joswick, Hugh,; Kalaga, Wojciech,; Larsen, Svend Erik,; Lavine, Thelma Z.,; Merrell, Floyd,; Meyers, Robert G.,; Miller, Marjorie C.,; Olshewsky, Thomas M.,; Pape, Helmut,; Petrilli, Susan,; Pettigrew, David E.,; Ponzio, Augusto,; Riemer, Ines,; Scheffler, Israel,; Sheriff, John,; Weinsheimer, Joel,; Wolde, Ellen van,
• HerausgeberIn: Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Olshewsky, Thomas M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Citations of Peirce's works -- Part 1. A general theory of signs: Its possibility and purpose -- General theories, vague utterances, and fruitful inquiries -- The philosophic significance of Peirce’s theory of signs -- Vagueness, generality, and undeciding otherness -- The Grand Vision -- Part 2. Peirce’s conception of semiosis: Presuppositions and articulations -- Peirce’s conception of habit -- Information and the metaphysical status of the sign -- Part 3. The components of semiosis -- The object of semeiotic -- Object and final cause in Peirce’s semeiotic -- Antetension, indexicality, and possible worlds -- The ground of semiosis: An implied theory of perspectival realism? -- Part 4. The classification of signs -- Peirce’s second classification of signs -- Peirce’s doctrine of symbol -- Symbol, ritual and cognition -- Index and icon revisited -- Part 5. The semiosis of metaphor -- Peirce and the interaction view of metaphor -- From pure icon to metaphor: Six degrees of iconicity -- On the neglect of Peirce’s views on metaphor in current theories of iconicity -- Peirce’s definition of metaphor and its consequences -- Part 6. Semiotics and aesthetics -- Aesthetic and artistic semiosis: A Peircean perspective -- Peirce on fiction: Introduction to an author-orientated semiotics -- Literary art: Meaning as a sign of possibility -- Arguments about icons -- Othello and Iago: Twins or opponents? On identity in literary semiotics -- Visual semiotics versus pragmaticism: Peirce and photography -- Music as icon: A critique of twentieth century music semiotic -- Part 7. Philosophy, linguistics and semiotics -- Sign structure and sign event in Saussure, Hjelmslev, and Peirce -- Relating European structuralist semiotics to American Peircean semeiotic -- Peirce and medieval semiotics -- Peirce and Derrida: From sign to sign -- Part 8. Semiotics and hermeneutics -- Peirce and hermeneutics -- Hermeneutic aspects in the light of Peirce’s methodology -- A word is not a sign: Hermeneutic semiotics and Peirce’s “Ethics of terminology” -- Peirce’s pragmatic maxim and K.-O. Apel’s idea of a contemplementary hermeneutical science -- Peirce, pragmatism, and interpretation theory -- The construction of a Peircean hermeneutics -- Index