Computational Semiotics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350166615
Subjects: Language and languages
Description: "Can semiotics and computers be compatible? Can computation advance semiotics by giving the theory of signs a more scientific basis? Coupling semiotics, a philosophical and phenomenological tradition concerned with theories of signs, with computation, a formal discipline, may seem controversial and paradoxical. Computational Semiotics tackles these controversies head on and attempts to bridge this gap. Showing how semiotics can build the same type of conceptual, formal, and computational models as other scientific projects, this book opens up a rich domain of inquiry toward the formal understanding of semiotic artifacts and processes. Examining how pairing semiotics with computation can bring more methodological rigor and logical consistency to the epistemic quest for the forms and functions of meaning, without compromising the important interpretive dynamics of semiotics, this book offers a new cutting-edge, model-driven theory to the field."--