Semiological investigations, or, Topics pertaining to the general theory of signs / Johann Christoph Hoffbauer ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Robert E. Innis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffbauer, Johann Christoph, 1766-1827.

Contributor:

Innis, Robert E.

Series:

Foundations of semiotics ; v. 4.

Foundations of semiotics, 0168-2555 ; v. 4

Standardized Title:

Tentamina semiologica. English & Latin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Early works to 1800.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Semioilogical investigations.

Topics pertaining to the general theory of signs.

Tentamina semiologica.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E. Innis The 33 sections of this classic text by Hoffbauer have a twofold focus: a descriptive inventory of signs, and a comparison of the expressive and cognitive powers of different sign systems. Using his sign typology as a point of departure, Hoffbauer inquires into the elements of matter and form both necessary and adequate to arrive at a definition of the sign. His purpose in doing so is to present his own versi

Contents:

SEMIOLOGICALINVESTIGATIONS,ORTOPICS PERTAINING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF SIGNS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Translator's Introduction; Note on the translation; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Biographical Sketch; Notes; Preface; Contents; Semiological Investigations orTopics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs; 1. Definitions; 2. Natural Signs; 3. Their Necessary Conditions; 4. Why terms especially deserve to be considered; 5. Grounds for distinguishing necessary and possible terms; Corollaries; 6. Intuitive and symbolic knowledge

7. The material and formal components of signs8. Primitive and derived signs; 9. The number of elements; 10. Relative aptitudes of sense objects to be signs; 11. How terms further clear and distinct knowledge; 12. The improving of derived signs; 13. The system of signs; 14. An example from the Arabic number system; 15. Derived, hypothetically necessary signs and when primitive signs are manifestly arbitrary; 16. Necessary elements in derived signs; 17. Material elements, more closely considered; 18. Formal elements of the sign, more closely considered

19. What the derivational laws demand20. Why languages do not contain systems of signs; 21. Dangers of a universal characteristic as developed by Leibniz, Becher, Toennies, Kalmar, and others; 22. Perfection of hieroglyphic or iconic signs; 23. The subjective perfection of signs; 24. How one is to consider the brevity of the sign without prejudicing its objective perfection; 25. The twofold use of essential signs; 26. Discovery with the aid of a calculus; 27. B) The sign at which we ultimately arrive

28. The idea of a calculus more universal than an algebra constructed in accordance with such a model.29. How hieroglyphic signs aid invention; 30. Perfection of hieroglyphic or iconic signs recounted in preceding paragraph reduces to the perfection of essential signs; 31. Parallelism more closely considered; 32. The special use of hieroglyphic metaphorical signs; 33. B) Synecdochical signs; Appendix; Notes

Notes:

English translation and reprint of the original Latin text of: Tentamina semiologica.

"Tentamina semiologica, sive, Quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia": p. 43-116.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-32817-8

9786613328175

90-272-7781-8

OCLC:

769341982