In the World of Signs

Essays in honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0399-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 989 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

The book covers almost the whole range of semiotics: the conceptions of meaning, the appearance of meaning units in semiosis, the dichotomy analyticity/syntheticity, the formal condition of good translation, the metaphorical change in fine arts, the figurativeness in modern literary theories, the metaphor in computer translation, the conditionals with egocentric predicates, the evolution of the notion of cause, the temporal relation in conditionals, the structure of passive voice, the semantics of "to think", the reasoning and rationality, the non-formalized reasoning, the operation of acceptance, the principle of non-contradiction, the relation semiotics/logic/philosophy, the interdisciplinarity and exactness, the notion of imprecision, the interpretation of some semiotic notions (i.a. semantic field of terms) in terms of mathematics, the description of categorial grammars in terms of model theory, the human knowledge as moral problem, the conceptualization of the development of knowledge by means of the notion of meme, the cultural relations between some European countries, the typology of scientists, the semiotic studies of some Spanish, Irish, Czech, Polish and Norwegian works of literature, the semiotic aspects of music, television and the whole sphere of artifacts, the history of semiotics (Plato, Gonsung Long, Descartes, Fu Yen, Peirce, Brwal, Lotman, Langer).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jadacki, Jacek

Strawinsky, Witold

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, How to Move in the World of Signs. PART I: THEORETICAL SEMIOTICS. Andrzej BOGUS_AWSKI: Conditionals and Egocentric Mental Predicates. Wojciech BUSZKOWSKI: On Families of Languages Generated by Categorial Grammar. Katalin G. HAVAS: Changing the World - Changing the Meaning. On the Meanings of the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Henryk HITZ: On Translation. Solomon MARCUS: Imprecision, Between Variety and Uniformity: The Conjugate Pairs. Jaroslav PEREGRIN, Petr SGALL: Meaning and Propositional Attitudes. Olgierd Adrian WOJTASIEWICZ: Some Applications of Metric Space in Theoretical Linguistics. PART II: METHODOLOGY. Evandro AGAZZI: Rationality and Certitude. Irena BELLERT: Human Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence. When Are Computers Dumb in Simulating Human Reasoning? Tomasz BIGAJ: Analyticity and Existence in Mathematics. Geoffrey B. KEENE: Taking up the Logical Slack in Natural Language. András Kertész: Interdisciplinarity and the Myth of Exactness. Jan SRZEDNICKI: Norm as the Basis of Form. Juri S. STEPANOV: Cause in the Light of Semiotics. Jerzy A. WOJCIECHOWSKI: The Development of Knowledge as a Moral Problem. PART III: HISTORY OF SEMIOTICS. Erhard ALBRECHT: Philosophy of Language, Logic and Semiotics. Gérard DELEDALLE: A Philosopher's Reply to Questions Concerning Peirce's Theory of Signs. Janice DELEDALLE-RHODES: The Transposition of the Linguistic Sign in Peirce's Contributions to The Nation. Robert E. INNIS: From Feeling to Mind: A Note on Langer's Notion of Symbolic Projection. Roberta KEVELSON: Peirce's Semiotics as Complex Inquiry: Conflicting Methods. Jerzy KOPANIA: The Cartesian Alternative of Philosophical Thinking. Xiankun LI: Why Gonsung Long (Kungsun Lung) Said White Horse Is Not Horse. Lucia MELAZZO: A Report on Ancient Discussion. Ding-fu NI; Semantic Thoughts of J. Stuart Mill and Chinese Characters. Irene PORTIS-WINNER: Lotman's Semiosphere: Some Comments. Joëlle RÉTHORÉ: Another Close Look at the Interpretant. Edward STANKIEWICZ: The Semiotic Turn of Breal's Semantique. PART IV: LINGUISTICS. Klaus HEGER: Passive and Other Voices Seen from an Onomasiological Point of View. Laszlo I. KOMLÓSZI: The Semiotic System of Events, Intrinsic Temporal and Deictic Tense Relations in Natural Language. On the Conceptualization of Temporal Schemata. Wac_aw M. OSADNIK, Ewa HORODECKA: Polysystem Theory, Translation Theory and Semiotics. Anna WIERZBICKA: THINK - a Universal Human Concept and a Conceptual Primitive. PART V: CULTURAL SEMIOTICS. Gianfranco BETTETINI: Communication as a Videogame. W_odzimierz KRYSI??N??SKI: Joyce, Models, and Semiotics of Passions. Hanna KSIAZEK-KONICKA: Visual Thinking in the Poetry of Julian Przybo_ and Miron Bia_oszewski. Urszula NIKLAS: The Space of Metaphor. Maria Caterina RUTA: Captivity as Event and Metaphor in Some of Cervantes' Writings. Eero TARASTI: From Aesthetics to Ethics: Semiotic Observations on the Moral Aspects of Art, Especially Music. Ladislav TONDL: Is It Justified to Consider the Semiotics of Technological Artefacts? Vilmos VOIGT: Poland, Finland and Hungary (A Tuatara's View). Thomas G. WINNER: Czech Poetism: A New View of Poetic Language. Johan WREDE: Metaphorical Imagery - Ambiguity, Explicitness and Life. Else M. BARTH: A Case Study in Empirical Logic and Semiotics. Fundamental Modes of Thought of Nazi Politician Vidkun Quisling, Based on Unpublished Drafts and Notebooks. Paul BOUISSAC: Why Do Memes Die? Wojciech KALAGA: Thresholds of Signification. Adam PODGÓRECKI: Do Social Sciences Evaporate?