Dialogic Semiosis
Subtitle: An Essay on Signs and Meaning (Advances in Semiotics)
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: October 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253330994
Subjects: Linguistic semiotics; Sociology - General; Semiotics; Sociology; (Charles Sanders),; Communication; Peirce, Charles S; Speech; Literary Criticism
Description: A study of C. S. Peirce's conception of the sign, with a critique of Saussure and Hjelmslev, Dialogic Semiosis presents a semiotics of the production, transmission, and interpretation of signs in human communication. Jorrgen Dines Johansen studies the process of sign creation, how signs fulfill their office of transmitting information between human agents, chiefly through a study of human speech. In the first part of the book, Johansen focuses on Hjelmslev's concept of the sign and the study of semiotic systems. In Part II, he undertakes a detailed explication of Peirce's concepts of the process of signification with the intention of inducing readers to think semiotics with Peirce. In the conclusion, Johansen analyzes a specific micro system from both Hjelmslevian and Peircean perspectives and summarizes the basic features of an intentionally produced semiotic.