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Peirce, Signs, and Meaning.
C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was an American philosopher and mathematician whose influence has been enormous on the field of semiotics. Merrell uses Pierce's theories to reply to the all-important question: ""What and where is meaning?""
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Preamble: Is Meaning Possible within Indefinite Semiosis
- Part I: All Too Human?
- 1 Our Blissful Unknowing Knowing
- 2 The Self as a Sign among Signs
- Part II: Or Merely What Comes Naturally?
- 3 Thought-Signs: Jungle or Wasteland?
- 4 Sign-Events Meet Thought-Signs
- 5 The Sign: Mirror or Lamp?
- An Interlude
- 6 Whither Meaning, Then?
- Part III: Or Perhaps Merely Signs among Signs?
- 7 Fabricated Rather than Found
- 8 What Else Is a Self-Respecting Sign to Do?
- 9 Caught Within
- Part IV: If So, Then into the Breakers, Vortices, Cross-Currents, and Undertows of Semiosis
- 10 Dreaming the Impossible Dream?
- 11 How We Can Go Wrong
- 12 Rules Are There to Be Broken?
- 13 From Conundrum to Quality Icon
- Part V: And Finally, Navigating Back, Wherever That Was
- 14 Out of Sign, Out of Mind
- 15 Putting the Body Back in the Sign
- APPENDIX: On the Pragmatic Maxim
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- A
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