Signs, codes, spaces, and arts : papers on general and spatial semiotics / by Leonid Tchertov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tchertov, Leonid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

This book delves into the concepts of general and spatial semiotics, discussing the differences and interactions between semiotic means of diverse types and levels. It introduces an integrative model ("the sign prism") which unites many famous schemes of sign connection. It considers the human as a being included in a self-created semiosphere of signs and interacting with a sphere of natural signals and indexes available also to animals. The majority of the text is devoted to spatial semiotics, and its distinctions from temporal ways of sign connection. Its specific categories and particular visual-spatial codes are considered here as the peculiar means of communication and thinking. An essential feature of the book is the application of the author's concepts of spatial semiotics to research of structures and the historical changes of visual arts.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

PART I. General Semiotics

1.1. METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

I.1.1. On the Semiology of Sign Means

1. Semiotics

2. Semiotics and Hermeneutics

3. "Small" and "Big" Semiospheres

4. Semiology of Sign Means

5. Semiology of Sign Means and Inter-subject Understanding

6. Concluding Remarks

I.1.2 F. de Saussure: A Hundred Years Later

1. The Duality of Relations between Linguistics and Semiology

2. A View of Semiology from the Side of Linguistics

3. A View of Semiology from the Side of Non-linguistic Semiotic Studies

4. On Relations between Verbal Languages and Other Semiotic Systems

I.2. THEORY OF SIGN

I.2.1. The Sign Prism

1. The Problem of Synthesis

2. The Sign Means as a Special Level of Information Connection

3. The Sign Mediation of Human Activity

4. The "Plane of Content" (PC) of a Sign

5. The "Plane of Expression" (PE) of a Sign

6. The Semantic Relations between the Components of the Both Planes

7. The "Sign Prism"

8. The Invariability of the "Sign Prism"

9. The "Sign Prism" as an Integral Model

I.2.2 To the Theory of Sign

I.3. DIVERSITY OF SEMIOTIC MEANS

I.3.1. On the Diversity and Connections of Semiotic Means

Introduction

1. Information Connection and Semiosis

1.1. The Concept of Information Connection

1.2. Proto-information and Code

1.3. The Concept of Semiosis

1.4. Levels of Semiosis

2. The Signal-indexical Level of Semiosis

2.1. Signals

2.2. Indexes

2.3. Peculiarity of the Signal-indexical Level

3. The Sign Level of Semiosis

3.1. Differences of Signs from Signals and Indexes

3.2. Meaning and Sense of the Sign

3.3. Distinctions of Signs by Semiotic Functions

3.4. Symbols

4. Semiotic Systems and Their Diversity

4.1. On the Variety of Semiotic Systems

4.2. Differences of Levels.

4.3. Structural Differences

4.4. Functional Differences

5. Connections between Semiotic Systems

5.1. Complexes of Semiotic Systems Oriented to Diverse Information Channels

5.2. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Texts

5.3. Types of Connection between Semiotic Systems

Conclusion

I.3.2 Shifted Comprehension and Psycho-semiotic Distinctions of Its Means

1. Introduction

2. Psychological Levels of Comprehension

3. Types of Shifted Comprehension

4. Relations to Peirce's Types of Signs

5. Combinations of the Shifting Ways

6. Connections between the Levels of Comprehension and Cognitive Codes

7. Communicative Codes of Lover Cognitive Levels

8. Psycho-semiotic Distinctions of Codes

9. Combinations of Diverse Codes

10. Conclusion

I.3.3. "Alphabet" and "Palette" as Two Principles of Sense Distinction

I.4. HUMAN IN SEMIOSPHERE

I.4.1. "Animal Symbolicum" in the Cultural and Natural Semiospheres

1. Semiospheres of Culture and of Nature

1.1. Homo Vitruvianus

1.2. Semiosphere of Culture

1.3. Semiosphere of Nature

2. Information Flows in Culture

2.1. Types of Connections between Subjects of Activity

2.2. Variety of Semiotic Connections in Different Cultures

3. Humans in two Semiospheres

3.1. Humans in Natural and Cultural Semiospheres

3.2. Interaction of Natural and Cultural Semiotic Systems

3.3. Artificial Transformations of Natural Codes

3.4. On the "Semiotic Profile" of a Person

3.5. Humans in the Technosphere

PART II. Semiotics of Space

II.1. SPATIAL SEMIOTICS AS AN AUTONOMOUS DISCIPLINE

II.1.1. Spatial Semiotics as a Branch of Semiotic Studies

1. On the Relations between General and Spatial Semiotics

1.1. A particular View on General Semiotics

1.2. On the Emergence of Spatial Semiotics

2. Specific Properties of Spatial Semiosis.

2.1. Differences between Spatial and Temporal Semiosis

2.2. Specific Categories of Spatial Semiotics

2.3. Relations between the Categories of Spatial Semiotics

2.4. On "Universal" and "Partial" Grammars in Spatial Semiotics

3. Spatial Codes and their Diversity

3.1. Spatial Codes

3.2. Diversity of Spatial Codes on the Substance of Expression

3.3. Semantic Specifics of Spatial Codes (Diversity by Psychical Substance of Contents)

3.4. Peculiarities of Syntactic Constructions

3.5. Types of Relations between the Spatial Codes

4. Spatial Texts and their Interaction

4.1. Spatial Texts

4.2. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Spatial Texts

4.3. Combination of Spatial Texts in Architecture

4.4. An Example of a Heterogenous Architectural Text

II.1.2. Aesthetics and Art Theory as Grounds for Spatial Semiotics

II.1.3. On the Anticipation of Spatial Semiotics in theCultural Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

II.2. SPATIAL SEMIOSIS AS A SPECIFIC WAY OF SENSE EXPRESSION

II.2.1. Spatial Structures and Sense

II.2.2. Spatial Semiosis and Time

1. On Spatial and Temporal Semiosis

2. Spatial Semiosis in Time

2.1. Peculiarities of Temporal Being

2.2. Presentation of the Spatial Text in Time

3. Time in Spatial Semiosis and Semiotic Means of its Representation

3.1. Time Represented in Semiotized Space

3.2. Semiotic Means of Time Representation in Space

II.2.3. Spatial Semiosis in Culture

1. The Problem of the Particularity of Spatial Semiosis

2. The Semiotization of Space and the Spatial Codes

3. Genetic, Functional and Structural Peculiarities of Spatial Codes

4. Spatial Semiosis as Part of the Semiosphere

5. Spatial Semiotics as an Autonomous Branch of Sign Theory

II.3. SPATIAL CODES

II.3.1. Toward Semiotics of Spatial Codes

1. On Spatial Codes.

2. Architectonic Code

3. Object-functional Code

4. Social-symbolic Code

II.3.2. The Semiotization of Space and Dynamic Codes

1. The Specifics of the Semiotization of Space

2. The Object-spatial Dualism of Visual Perception

3. The Spatial Units of PE in Dynamic Codes

4. Dynamic Meanings of PC

5. The Levels of Connection between the Units of PE and PC

II.3.3. On Demarcation Code

II.3.4. Perceptographic Code in Visual Culture

1. Visual Culture and Perceptual Code

2. Perceptography as a Communicative Version of Perceptual Code

3. Specific Features of Perceptographic Code

4. Perceptography as an Art

5. Perceptography and External Optical Means

6. Methodological Remarks

II.3.5. On Synesthetic Codes

1. Synesthetic Codes as Subject of Interdisciplinary Studies

2. Visual Synesthetic Codes as a Semiotic Subject

II.4. SPATIAL TEXTS

II.4.1. On Structural Peculiarities of Spatial Texts

1. The Concept of the Spatial Text

2. Semio-topological Peculiarities of Spatial Texts

3. The Semio-topology of Written Texts

4. Semio-topology of Pictures

5. Two Ways of Text Formation

6. Texts of Behaviour Space

II.4.2. Particular Qualities of Semantics and Pragmatics of Spatial Texts

1. Semantic Peculiarities of Spatial Texts

2. Pragmatic Peculiarities of Spatial Texts

II.5. CATEGORIES OF SPATIAL SEMIOTICS

II.5.1. On Semiotized Spaces

1. Autonomous Spaces

1.1. Space and Spatial Relations

1.2. Autonomous Spaces and Modes of Their Existence

2. Anthropomorphic Spaces and Their Variety

2.1. Anthropomorphic Spaces

2.2. Anthropomorphic Features in Ideal Models of Space

2.3. Anthropomorphic Spaces in Human Activity

3. Semiotization of Space

3.1. On the Natural Conditions of the Space Semiotization

3.2. The Cultural Level of Space Semiotization.

3.3. Semiotization of Space as General Conditions and as Concrete Acts

3.4. Semiotization of Space as an Activity

4. Structural Peculiarities of the Semiotized Spaces

4.1. Autonomy and Separation of Semiotized Spaces

4.2. Anthropomorphic Properties of Semiotized Spaces

4.3. Semio-topological Properties of Semiotized Spaces

5. Semiotized Spaces and Spatial Texts

5.1. Relations between Spaces and Texts

5.2. Pre-semiotized Spaces

5.3. Carcass and Basis

6. Semiotized Spaces and Spatial Codes

6.1. Mono- and Poly-semiotized Spaces

6.2. Conjoined Semiotization of the Architectural Space by Diverse Codes

7. Relations between Semiotized Spaces

7.1. Similarity and Differences of Semiotized Spaces

7.2. Structural Relations between the Semiotized Spaces

7.3. Functional Relations between Semiotized Spaces

II.5.2. Form as a Category of Spatial Semiotics

1. On the Category of Form

2. Relations with Other Categories of Spatial Grammar

3. Semiotic Functions of Forms in Spatial Codes

4. Ways of Reception and Comprehension of Forms in Diverse Spatial Codes

5. Morphology, Morphogenetics and Syntax in Spatial Codes

II.5.3. Place and Form in Spatial Grammar

1. Meaningful Place and its Species

2. Mutual Relations between Place and Form Categories

3. Meaningful Connections of Places and of Forms

4. Disposition and Distribution

5. Place and Form in Semiotic Systems

II.5.4. Borders as a Category of Spatial Grammar

II.5.5. On the Semiology of Colours

1. On the Subject of Colour Semiology

2. On the Differences in Colour Codes and their "Psychic Substance"

3. On Semantic Functions of Colours in Diverse Codes

4. On the Syntactics of Colour Texts

5. On Colour Texts in Paintings

II.6. SPATIAL SEMIOSIS AND MODELLING

II.6.1. On Spatial Modelling.

1. Modelling in the Human Activity.

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ISBN:

1-5275-4461-3

OCLC:

1183030888