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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Deely, John

Titel

Sign, Text, and Criticism as Elements of Anthroposemiosis

Ist Teil von

• American journal of semiotics, 1990-01, Vol.7 (4), p.41-81

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Pub. Co

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

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• In this way, the ancient definition was bifurcated: the first part (which supposedly designated something shared by human beings with other species or types of cognitive animate beings) was made to reduce those other types of beings to a material uniformity which became the whole definition of what was opposed to the human and in contrast with it, namely, bodies of whatever sort. If we are to propose, for example, "linguistic animal" as a semiotic definition, we will find that, in order to interpret the defining terms semiotically, we cannot avoid taking animality very seriously-indeed, if only in order to understand language. [...]it is the exercise of criticism-the critical control of objectivity, as we will say-that transforms an individual as an interpretant into a sign respecting experience as a whole, whereby, for example, the individual is revealed as belonging to a definite cultural and historical epoch. First of all it is rooted in a process, the process of semiosis, specifically as that process is responsible for the very possibility of and for whatever there is of actuality in the experience of any living being. [...]in the case of a sign, what is fundamental (the representation grounding and founding the relation of signification) and what is formal (the relation of signification itself) never coincide; so that, although an object may also function experientially as a sign, it need not so function (the moon, well known to ancient 4 humans, never served as a reminder of the U.S. Apollo Space Program of the 19705, nor need the god Apollo and the moon have been brought together in order to signify a program to reach the moon), and a sign which is also an object may, accordingly, cease to be sign in any given respect for any