[Corpora-List] Quantitive Corpus Linguistics

[John F. Sowa]

Serge,

Just one comment:

 > Another philosopher to be mentioned in this context is Peirce,
 > but, obviously, John Sowa can say more about the relevance of
 > his contribution.

I highly recommend a book by Frederik Stjernfelt, which explores
the relationships between Peirce, Husserl, and others on related
issues.  See below.

John Sowa
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Frederik Stjernfelt, Diagrammatology:  An Investigation on the
Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology and Semiotics, Springer,
2007, 507pp., $189.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781402056512.

Reviewed by Valeria Giardino, Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), 
Paris:  http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13446

Diagrammatology is the product of a very ambitious project: the
development of a semiotics based on iconical realism. The book is
divided into two parts. The first is devoted to the articulation
of the basic tenets of such a realism; the second presents three
possible domains of application: biosemiotics, picture theory and
literary theory...

In the Introduction, Stjernfelt explains why he chose the title for
his book. First, he says that he regards diagram manipulation as a
prototype of a wide class of thought processes which have not been
recognized earlier. Second, he regards diagrams as a central case
of iconicity in general, exemplified by the three applications in
biosemiotics, picture theory and literary theory. Concerning the
first point, Stjernfelt succeeds in giving a detailed interpretation
of Peirce's system and of the role of continuity in it; he also shows
plausible relationships to other views, such as Husserl's. Concerning
the second point, iconicity as Stjernfelt presents it is too
comprehensive to be the subject of just one book. But this inadequacy
has a positive side since it creates the conditions for further and
exciting new research.



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