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Semiosis and pragmatism: Toward a dynamic concept of meaning

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S.
João Queiroz, Floyd Merrell
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Action-thoughts and the genesis of time in linguistic semiosis

, 2021
The genesis of time is explained in the spirit of constructivism combined with the activity approach to cognition. The cardinal temporal categories of present, past, and future are dis­cussed in terms of action-thoughts understood as elementary units of ...
A. Simsky, A. Kravchenko, A. Druzhinin
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The Fibonacci sequence and the nature of mathematical discovery: A semiotic perspective

Sign Systems Studies, 2005
This study looks at the relation between mathematical discovery and semiosis, focusing on the famous Fibonacci sequence. The serendipitous discovery of this sequence as the answer to a puzzle designed by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci to ...
Marcel Danesi
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From materiality to system

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
This paper seeks to address the relation of materiality to structure and phenomena of signification or semiosis. It examines the logical consequences of several major lines of argument concerning the status of semiosis with regards to the human or ...
Louis Armand
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Melodic Primitives and Semiosis

Signata, 2015
This essay discusses the role played by melodic primitives in semiosis. Any melodic sound must be determined by pitch, duration, intensity and timbre, which are the minimal categories found in music. We propose an analysis of those primitives from two different points of view.
do Carmo Jr., José Roberto, de Freitas, Thiago Corrêa   +1 more
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Paradigmes d’alternatives syntagmatiques : la manifestation est une compétition

Signata, 2017
In a structural point of view, paradigms are in principle and generally classifications which are reserved to the language system, to its immanent structure.
Jacques Fontanille
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The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics

Sign Systems Studies, 2005
This examination of the often-inaccessible work and semiotics of George Herbert Mead focuses first on his pivotal ideas of Sociality, Consciousness, and Communication. Mead’s insight of sociality as forced relatedness, or forced semiosis, appearing early
Jorge Conesa Sevilla
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Metaphysical grounds of universal semiosis

, 2021
Na história da filosofia americana, há um filão de pensamento sobre os signos na natureza. Animais, insetos, árvores, flores, o clima, paisagens e a noite estrelada são todos encontrados expressivos de diversos significados.
Nicholas L. Guardiano
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The role of biosemiosis and semiotic scaffolding in the processes of developing intelligent behaviour

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2021
Biosemiotics deals with the processes of signs in all dimensions of nature. Semiosis is the primary form of intelligence. Intelligent behaviour becomes immediately understandable in this approach because semiosis combines causality with the triadic ...
Anna Sarosiek
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Learning and knowing as semiosis: Extending the conceptual apparatus of semiotics

, 2020
If all knowing comes from semiosis, more concepts should be added to the semiotic toolbox. However, semiotic concepts must be defined via other semiotic concepts. We observe an opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in semiotics by defining concepts
Cary Campbell, A. Olteanu, K. Kull
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