28.204, Confs: General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:15:03
From: Jean-Yves Beziau [beziau at gmail.com]
Subject: The Arbitrariness of the Sign

The Arbitrariness of the Sign 
Short Title: AoS 

Date: 10-Jan-2017 - 12-Jan-2017 
Location: Geneva, Switzerland 
Contact: Jean-Yves Beziau 
Contact Email: jyb at ufrj.br 
Meeting URL: http://www.jyb-logic.org/a 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop is part of the conference commemorating the centenary of
Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Générale.

The topic of this workshop is The First Principle stated in the second section
of the first part of the Course in General Linguistics: 'The Arbitrariness of
the Sign.

The workshop will develop discussions according to three perspectives:

1. The details of the formulation of this principle in the Course, its proper
place (cf. the following sentence of section 2: ''No one disputes the
principle of the arbitrariness of the sign but it is often easier to discover
a truth than to assign it its proper place''). Discussions about the question
of arbitrariness of the sign in works by Saussure before the Course are also
welcome.

2. How the arbitrariness of the sign has been formulated and stressed before
the Course by people other than Saussure, in particular, but not exclusively,
by people of the second part of the XIX century. Namely by Boole, Peirce,
Bréal. 

3. The import and value of this principle and the criticisms it received after
the publication of the Course. Special focus will be given on the opposition
between arbitrary sign and symbol (as characterized in the Course: ''the
symbol is never arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a
natural bond between the signifier and the signified'') in the context of
mathematical and logical languages (visual reasoning), traffic signs and
pictograms (cf. Neurath's Isotype), typefaces (cf. the work of Adrian
Frutiger).

Program:

January 10:

10:40-11:10:
Jean-Yves Beziau
Presentation of the Workshop

11:10-11:50:
Cecile Mathieu
L’arbitraire du signe ou l’origine d’une polémique

11:50-12:20:
Emmanuele Fadda
 « L’arbitraire est-il une « obsession » saussurienne ? A partir de la lecture
barthésienne de Saussure »

12:20-13:40: Lunch

13:40-14:10:
Annamaria Currea
L’arbitraire du signe comme problématique dans la linguistique genevoise : Ch.
Bally, A. Sechehaye et H. Frei

14:10-14:40:
Hubert Kowalewski
Disentangling the web of belief. Metatheoretical status and empirical
testability of Saussure’s principle of arbitrariness

14:40-15:10:
Andrea Picciuolo,
L’arbitraire comme « premier principe ». Le débat dans Acta Linguistica
1939-1941 et la glose de Mario Lucidi »

15:10-15:40: Coffee Break

15:40-16:10:
Ricardo Jardim
Saussure et la philosophie: Un essai de reconstruction de la théorie de la
langue

16:10-16:40:
F.Beets
De l’arbitraire du signe aux signes artificiels : Condillac ou l’ancrage
linguistique de la science

16:40-17:10:
Noëlla Schuttel
Derrida et l’arbitraire du signe

January 11:

10:40-11:20:
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan
Neurophenomenology of Embodied Symbols – the Case of the Square and the EGG

11:20-11:50:
Nimrod Bar-Am
The Arbitrariness of Signs and the Bankruptcy of the Nature vs. Convention
Dichotomy

11:50-12:20:
Ioannis Vandoulakis
The Arbitrariness of the Sign in Greek Mathematics

12:20-13:40: Lunch

13:40-14:10:
Saloua Chatti
On the Asymmetry between the Four Corners of the Square

14:10-14:40:
Waldir Beividas
Le principe de l'arbitraire: une épistémologie sémiologique

14:40-15:10:
Vassili Penchev
Both necessity and arbitrariness of the sign: information

15:10-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-17:00:
Marcin Sobieszczanski
Les fragments « sur l’arbitraire du signe »

17:00-17:30
Miro Brada
Psychological and other aspects of the sign's arbitrariness

17:30-18:00:
Gianfranco Basti
The Naturalistic Foundation of the Non-arbitrariness of Symbols

January 12:

10:40-11:20:
Jean-Pierre Desclés
La structuration des signifiés complexifie la relation signifiant-signifié

11:20-11:50:
Oliver Schlaudt
Couturat on semiotics, arbitrariness, and planned languages

11:50-12:20:
Francesco Parisi
Beyond the arbitrariness of the sign: language (parole) and thought between
Saussure and Bergson

12:20-13:40: Lunch

13:40-14:10:
Vinicius Claro
The Arbitrariness Formulation of the sign before Saussure

14:10-14:40:
François Nemo
Arbitrariness of the sign, arbitrariness of the word, arbitrariness of the
morpheme

14:40-15:10:
Ludmila Lackova 
 « Quelques remarques sur l’usage du terme « arbitraire du signe »

15:10-15:40: Coffee Break

15:40-16:10:
Hamdi Mlika
l'arbitraire du signe et la traduction du CLG en arabe

16:10-16:40:
Avinash Pandey
Exploiting the Arbitrary: The opacity-transparency dynamics in the patterns of
language-use of the Nath Panthi Davri Gosavi

16:40-17:30:
Jean-Yves Beziau

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