The material bases of meaning / Giorgio Prodi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prodi, Giorgio, author.

Series:

Tartu semiotics library ; 22.

Tartu Semiotics Library ; 22

Standardized Title:

Basi materiali della significazione. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tartu, Estonia : University of Tartu Press, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: First Part From the side of Nature

1. Analysis criteria

2. Situations of correspondence and specificity

3. Remarks on the methodological standpoint

4. Consequences of specificity reactions

5. Material logic

6. Systems of complementariness and signaling

7. Methods for analyzing structures

8. The initial phases

9. Real biological situations

10. Origins of complementariness

11. Natural structures

12. Simple evolutionary situations and their generalization

13. Internal signs and internal complexity

14. Levels of reading

15. The role of generation and code in producing complexity

16. The translating function

17. Sign localization and process

18. Contextuality and representation

19. The sign and the collectivity of structures

20. The social sign

21. Sign storage: internal signs and memory

22. Segmentation and reading

23. Objectifying the referent

24. The hypothetical function

25. Intersubjective connections

26. The human sign

27. The genesis and the anatomy of the sign

28. General features of the sign

29. Sign systems and codes

30. Spontaneous vs. constructed systems

Second Part From the side of Culture

1. Relationship between natural and cultural semiotics

2. Opposition and universe

3. Concept of communication system

4. Signs and system: meaning and context

5. System and referent

6. Existential situation, knowledge, language

7. The linking function

8. System as compatibility

9. Uniformity of the constitution of systems

10. The composition of systems: culture

11. Language and science

12. Language. Logic in the construction of language. Invariants

13. Formal logic and operative logic in language: syntax and semantic

14. Invariants and the historical dynamics

15. Experimental and attuned uses of language

16. Precision and logic

17. Language and the transformation of the world

18. Scientific language

19. Language and criticism: negative thought and other inventions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789949035649

9949035643

OCLC:

1255690436