<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Becky, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Great question; thank you. <br></div><div><br></div><div>There is a growing discussion of pre-Qin semiotic theories (starting with the <i>Yijing</i>) in Chinese semiotics -- much of it by comparison with Peircean semiotic, but the dialogue works both ways (esp. since the era pre-dates Peirce by 2-3k years). Xingzhi Zhao provides a splendid overview in a recent chapter here: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350076143.ch-002" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350076143.ch-002</a></div><div><br></div><div>I recently contributed a Peirce-Zhuangzi paper to the discussion here: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2021-0013" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2021-0013</a> -- a semiotic discourse analysis of Zhuangzi's butterfly dream chapter, applying Mary Douglas's work on ring compositions, and strongly influenced by Huang's (2010) take on Zhuangzi's virtue ethics (<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40929283" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/40929283</a>), among others.</div><div><br></div><div>A group of Chinese scholars including Zhang Jie, Hongbing Yu, Chen Zhong, and Yao Tingting are working to develop pre-Qin thought into a “Cultural Semiotics of 'Jingshen'” (景深文化符号学) or 'depth of field' semiotics -- focused on creative vitality and wellbeing over knowledge-oriented abstraction. Here is a recent journal section devoted to this development: <a href="http://www.semiotics.net.cn/index.php/zine_view/index/146" target="_blank">http://www.semiotics.net.cn/index.php/zine_view/index/146</a>; and another is here: <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/CSS/16/4/html" target="_blank">https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/CSS/16/4/html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Jamin<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">________________<br></span></span></div><div><b><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">Jamin Pelkey, PhD</span></span></b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">Associate Professor</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures<br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><a href="https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2021/05/11/welcome-to-x-university-an-open-letter-to-the-community-from-indigenous-students/" target="_blank">X University</a>, Toronto</span></span></div></div></div></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:53 AM Becky Schulthies <<a href="mailto:bschulthies@gmail.com" target="_blank">bschulthies@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to revamp my linguistic anthropology courses by exploring non-Euro-American semiotic theories I can introduce to students. I realized recently, thanks to an undergraduate student, that I over-rely on Peircian semiotics, even as I introduce them to semiotic ideologies that emerge in the situated ethnographies we read.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to expand my instruction of non-Euro-American frameworks and appreciate any suggestions you all could offer. </div><div><br></div><div>Warmly,</div><div>Becky Schulthies</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div>
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