Quantitative semiotic analysis / Dario Compagno, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Compagno, Dario, editor.

Series:

Lecture notes in morphogenesis

Lecture notes in morphogenesis, 2195-1934

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Quantitative research.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance. European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an autonomous dimension of human existence, whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative analytical and reflexive analysis. Today, researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal the limitations of such an homogeneous practice. In particular, two families of quantitative research strategies can be identified. On the one hand, researchers wish to naturalize meaning, by making semiotic results interact with those coming from Neurophysiological and psychological sciences. On the other hand, statistical and computational tools are adopted to work on linguistic and multimedia corpora. The book acts to put the two approaches into dialogue.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Beyond immanence - mathematical and experimental research

The formulation of elementary semiotic structures

Neuromorphology of meaning

Semiotics and sensory sciences: meaning between texts and numbers

Images as utterances and as multimodal perceptual experiences

Part II. Within immanence - instrumental analysis of texts and corpora

Computer-assisted interpretation of semiotic corpora

Elements of a corpus semantics for humanities. Application to the classification of subjective texts

Rationalization processes between social representations and semantic block theory

Spatial aspects of personification in international news.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783319615929

3319615920

OCLC:

988286391