The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics

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This book considers the work and influence of Charles Sanders Peirce, showing how the concepts and ideas he developed continue to impact and shape contemporary research issues. Written by a team of leading international scholars of semiotics, linguistics and philosophy, this Companion examines the growing impact of Peirce’s thought and semiotic theories on a range of different fields. Discussing topics such as narrative, contemporary philosophy, aesthetics and linguistics, the book furthers understanding of the contemporary pertinence of Peircean concepts in theoretical and empirical fashion. The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics is the definitive guide to the enduring legacy of one of the world’s greatest semioticians. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Figures Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Primary Sources and Abbreviations Introduction Peirce the philosopher1 Organization of the chapters The semiotics of 1903 Logic as semiotics The sign before 1903 The Syllabus Summary of the semiotics of the projected Syllabus Further reading References 1 Peirce in Contemporary Semiotics Introduction Sign theory and Peirce’s writings Trichotomizing and reducing the typology of signs Grappling with the invariant ‘Semeiotic’ and the ‘sop to Cerberus’ meet pragmaticism Abduction and interpretation What do signs do? Fallibilism: the vagueness and approximate nature of signs The crowd of interlocutors A matter of fact – natural signs and symbols Conclusion References 2 Peircean Semiotics in China Today The beginning of Peircean semiotic studies The awakening of Peircean semiotic studies The boom of Peircean semiotics Traditional Chinese semiotic thought and Peircean semiotics The sociocultural turn in Peircean semiotic studies Communication and media studies and Peircean semiotics A summary References 3 Peirce’s Conception of Semiosis Introduction The problem Stages in the development of post-phenomenological signification Hexadic semiosis Concluding remarks References 4 A Complex System of Sign Classes for Complex Sign Systems Introduction How to construct a sign system The system of three classes of signs The system of ten classes of signs The system of twenty-eight classes of signs The system of sixty-six classes of signs References 5 Peirce’s Aesthetic Confession and Its Analytical Consequences Between quality and signs Basic sign typologies and their aesthetic relevance Peircean themes in Dewey’s aesthetics Between feeling and form: on the roots of aesthetic import References 6 Abduction: The Logic of Creativity Introduction The classification of arguments The nature of abduction Generating new ideas: the role of surprise and rational instinct Scientific creativity Artistic creativity Contemporary applications of abduction References 7 Abduction as an Explanatory Strategy in Narrative Peirce’s theory of abduction Abduction and detection Abduction and plot Medical diagnosis as an abductive reading of the patient’s narrative H.G. Wells: Narratives about the scientific method Conclusion References 8 Logic and Dialogic in Peirce’s Conception of Argumentation* The dialogic nature of the thinking self Dialogism in semiosis and argumentation The interdependence of symbol, index and icon Semiosis/interpretation, sign/argument, semiotics/logic Degrees of alterity and dialogue in deduction, induction and abduction To conclude and to indicate further perspectives References 9 A Peircean Semiotics of Technological Artefacts Introduction Peirce’s semiotics Technological grammar Technological logic Technological rhetoric Concluding remarks References 10 The Semiotic Nonagon: Peirce’s Categories as Design Thinking Introduction The Semiotic Nonagon The categories revisited Two thousand years of the sign architecture The sign graphic language The logical possibilities of using colour Brief conclusions References 11 Pragmatism and Semiotics in Teaching Drawing Today1 Drawing instruction in crisis Drawing for Peirce Peirce’s uses of drawing with implications for drawing instruction at diverse levels Conclusion: Charles Sanders Peirce as a model for the postmodern mind References 12 From Gestures to Habits: A Link between Semiotics and Pragmatism Sign and interpretant Interpretant and habit Habits, indices and gestures Gesture as the gestation of habit The gesture as writing A Survey of Pragmaticism: the study of signs is the study of habits References 13 Peirce and Welby: For an Ethics of the Man–Sign Relation ‘Semiotic and significs’. The Peirce/Welby correspondence Peirce and Welby: a meaningful relation in the study of signs and language Logic and love, semiosis beyond gnoseology Myself as other With Peirce and Welby on the way to semioethics References 14 Peircean Semiotic for Language and Linguistics Nominalism, continuity and Peirce’s ‘List of Horrid Things’ Advances in Peircean semiotic for the study of language Nominalist schisms in linguistics Sign categories, functions and types for language and linguistics Analogy, automation and diagrammatization: signs of thirdness General semiotic for language and linguistics References 15 Co-localization as the Syntax of Multimodal Propositions: An Amazing Peircean Idea and Some Implications for the Semiotics of Truth The syntax of propositions What kind of sign is co-localization syntax? Labels Co-localization syntax in early human semiotics Co-localization in comics and diagrams Framing – the topological character of co-localization Co-localization and linguistics Co-localization in biosemiotics The ontology of propositional truth References Notes Glossary Index