Saussure’s view that signs stand for their referents in an arbitrary fashion reflects a view of semiosis that separates sensory-bodily processes from cognitive ones.It remains Saussure’s most controversial assertion...Saussure’s view that signs stand for their referents in an arbitrary fashion reflects a view of semiosis that separates sensory-bodily processes from cognitive ones.It remains Saussure’s most controversial assertion within semiotics,even though it is a perspective that is found as an axiom in various cognitive sciences.This paper revisits Saussurean arbitrariness theory,showing how it breaks down in various ways when considering concrete semiotics phenomena.Nevertheless,as a model of semiosis,it has provided a basis on which to discuss and research semiosis in real-world terms.展开更多
Embodiment studies, strong after decades, remain a fount of vitality for semiotics. We connect sophisticated representations to prior experiences of sensing and manipulating our physical bodies, but we sometimes negle...Embodiment studies, strong after decades, remain a fount of vitality for semiotics. We connect sophisticated representations to prior experiences of sensing and manipulating our physical bodies, but we sometimes neglect the complementary moment of letting the body go. General semiotics （and/or general semiology）, the encompassing framework such as Saussure imagined or Peirce proposed, has not yet theorized embodiment and disembodiment as universal and reciprocal. Semiotics needs to rediscover corporeality only because semiosis accomplished so much by disengaging from and erasing the body, often via play, games and abstraction, an advancement quintessentiaUy human though perhaps not uniquely so.展开更多
文摘Saussure’s view that signs stand for their referents in an arbitrary fashion reflects a view of semiosis that separates sensory-bodily processes from cognitive ones.It remains Saussure’s most controversial assertion within semiotics,even though it is a perspective that is found as an axiom in various cognitive sciences.This paper revisits Saussurean arbitrariness theory,showing how it breaks down in various ways when considering concrete semiotics phenomena.Nevertheless,as a model of semiosis,it has provided a basis on which to discuss and research semiosis in real-world terms.
文摘Embodiment studies, strong after decades, remain a fount of vitality for semiotics. We connect sophisticated representations to prior experiences of sensing and manipulating our physical bodies, but we sometimes neglect the complementary moment of letting the body go. General semiotics （and/or general semiology）, the encompassing framework such as Saussure imagined or Peirce proposed, has not yet theorized embodiment and disembodiment as universal and reciprocal. Semiotics needs to rediscover corporeality only because semiosis accomplished so much by disengaging from and erasing the body, often via play, games and abstraction, an advancement quintessentiaUy human though perhaps not uniquely so.
