In the world of signs : essays in honour of professor Jerzy Pelc / edited by Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and Witold Strawinski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jadacki, Jacek Juliusz, editor.

Strawiński, Witold, editor.

Series:

Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities.

Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Editions Rodopi B.V., [1998]

Summary:

The book covers almost the whole range of semiotics: the conceptions of meaning, the appearance of meaning units in semiosis, the dichotomy analyticity/syntheticity, the formal condition of good translation, the metaphorical change in fine arts, the figurativeness in modern literary theories, the metaphor in computer translation, the conditionals with egocentric predicates, the evolution of the notion of cause, the temporal relation in conditionals, the structure of passive voice, the semantics of to think, the reasoning and rationality, the non-formalized reasoning, the operation of acceptance, the principle of non-contradiction, the relation semiotics/logic/philosophy, the interdisciplinarity and exactness, the notion of imprecision, the interpretation of some semiotic notions (i.a. semantic field of terms) in terms of mathematics, the description of categorial grammars in terms of model theory, the human knowledge as moral problem, the conceptualization of the development of knowledge by means of the notion of meme, the cultural relations between some European countries, the typology of scientists, the semiotic studies of some Spanish, Irish, Czech, Polish and Norwegian works of literature, the semiotic aspects of music, television and the whole sphere of artifacts, the history of semiotics (Plato, Gonsung Long, Descartes, Fu Yen, Peirce, Brwal, Lotman, Langer).

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Introduction. How to Move in the World of Signs

PART I: THEORETICAL SEMIOTICS

Conditionals and Egocentric Mental Predicates

On Families of Languages Generated by Categorial Grammar

Changing the World-Changing the Meaning. On the Meanings of the "Principle of Non-Contradiction"

On Translation

Imprecision, Between Variety and Uniformity: The Conjugate Pairs

Petr Sgall, Meaning and "Propositional Attitudes"

Some Applications of Metric Space in Theoretical Linguistics

PART II: METHODOLOGY

Rationality and Certitude

Human Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence. When Are Computers Dumb in Simulating Human Reasoning?

Analyticity and Existence in Mathematics

Taking up the Logical Slack in Natural Language

Interdisciplinarity and the Myth of Exactness

Norm as the Basis of Form

"Cause" in the Light of Semiotics

The Development of Knowledge as a Moral Problem

PART III: HISTORY OF SEMIOTICS

Philosophy of Language, Logic and Semiotics

A Philosopher's Reply to Questions Concerning Peirce's Theory of Signs

The Transposition of the Linguistic Sign in Peirce's Contributions to "The Nation"

From Feeling to Mind: A Note on Langer's Notion of Symbolic Projection

Peirce's Semiotics as Complex Inquiry: Conflicting Methods

The Cartesian Alternative of Philosophical Thinking

Why Gonsung Long (Kungsun Lung) Said "White Horse Is Not Horse"

A Report on an Ancient Discussion

Semantic Thoughts of J. Stuart Mill and Chinese Characters

Lotman's Semiosphere: Some Comments

Another Close Look at the Interpretant

The Semiotic Turn of Breal's "Semantique"

PART IV: LINGUISTICS

Passive and Other Voices Seen from an Onomasiological Point of View.

The Semiotic System of Events, Intrinsic Temporal and Deictic Tense Relations in Natural Language. On the Conceptualization of Temporal Schemata

Polysystem Theory, Translation Theory and Semiotics

THINK-a Universal Human Concept and a Conceptual Primitive

PART V: CULTURAL SEMIOTICS

Communication as a Videogame

Joyce, Models, and Semiotics of Passions

"Visual Thinking" in the Poetry of Julian Przyboś and Miron Białoszewski

The Space of Metaphor

Captivity as Event and Metaphor in Some of Cervantes' Writings

From Aesthetics to Ethics: Semiotic Observations on the Moral Aspects of Art, Especially Music

Is It Justified to Consider the Semiotics of Technological Artefacts?

Poland, Finland and Hungary (A Tuatara's View)

Czech Poetism: A New View of Poetic Language

Metaphorical Imagery-Ambiguity, Explicitness and Life

PART VI: PSYCHO-SOCIO-SEMIOTICS

Case Study in Empirical Logic and Semiotics. Fundamental Modes of Thought of Nazi Politician Vidkun Quisling, Based on Unpublished Drafts and Notebooks

Why Do Memes Die?

Thresholds of Signification

Do Social Sciences Evaporate?

List of Contributors

POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES.

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ISBN:

90-04-45762-3

OCLC:

1321800525