35.2423, Books: Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs: Jappy (2024)

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Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs: Jappy (2024)


Title: Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/developing-a-neopeircean-approach
-to-signs-9781350288812/

Author: Tony Jappy
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350288812 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 95
Abstract:

This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce's undeveloped
semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical interest for a
general semiotics.

Peirce's career as a logician spanned almost half a century, during
which time he produced several increasingly complex sign systems. The
best-known, from 1903, defined amongst other things a signifying
process involving sign, object and interpretant, the universally-known
icon-index-symbol division and a set of 10 distinct classes of signs.
Peirce subsequently expanded this process to include 2 objects, the
sign and 3 interpretants. Uncoincidentally, in the 5 years between
1903 and the final system of 1908, he introduced a number of highly
innovative semiotic concepts which he never developed.

One such concept is hypoiconicity, which comprises 3 levels of
isomorphism holding between sign and object and, in spite of the
mutations these varieties of icon subsequently underwent, offers
qualitative analysis as a complement to the traditional
literal-figurative binarism in the discussion of verbal and nonverbal
signs. Another is semiosis, which Peirce introduced and defined in
1907 but only rarely illustrated. Involving a complex combination of
object, perception, interpretation and a medium, this is shown to be a
far more complex signifying process than the one implicit in the
three-correlate definition of the sign of 1903. Exploring the evolving
theoretical background to the emergence of these new concepts and
showing how they differ from certain contemporary conceptions of sign,
mind and signification, the book proposes an introduction to, and
explanations and illustrations of, these important developments.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language

Written In: English (eng)



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