Dialogic Semiosis

A study of C. S. Peirce's conception of the sign, with a critique of Saussure and Hjelmslev, Dialogic Semiosis presents a semiotics of the production, transmission, and interpretation of signs in human communication. Jørgen Dines Johansen studies the process of sign creation, how signs fulfill their office of transmitting information between human agents, chiefly through a study of human speech.In the first part of the book, Johansen focuses on Hjelmslev's concept of the sign and the study of semiotic systems. In Part II, he undertakes a detailed explication of Peirce's concepts of the process of signification with the intention of inducing readers to think semiotics with Peirce. In the conclusion, Johansen analyzes a specific micro system from both Hjelmslevian and Peircean perspectives and summarizes the basic features of an intentionally produced semiotic.

Preface
Signs without Worlds
Signs without Worlds	p. 3
The circuit of speech, the sign, and the repression of communication	p. 3
Hjelmslev's concepts of the sign	p. 11
The relationship between language and thought in glossematics	p. 19
Signs without worlds. the formal nature of linguistic analysis	p. 25
Content form and content substance	p. 34
Naturam expellere furca...	p. 41
Sign, Object, Interpretant
Sign and Object	p. 55
The general nature of the sign	p. 55
The sign as representamen	p. 62
Qualisign, sinsign, legisign	p. 65
The objects of the sign	p. 73
Remarks on Peirce's concepts of reality and truth	p. 85
The Icon, Index, Symbol Distinction	p. 90
Ground and interpretant	p. 90
The pure icon and the iconic sign	p. 93
Images, diagrams, and metaphors	p. 98
Features of the iconic sign	p. 105
The indexical sign	p. 107
The symbolic sign	p. 116
Logical and developmental features of the icon, index, symbol distinction	p. 124
The Interpretants	p. 145
Extension, comprehension, information	p. 145
Translation, synonymity, and use	p. 151
Infinite interpretation	p. 153
The divisions of the interpretant	p. 162
Rheme, dicisign, argument, and the ten classes of signs	p. 174
The division of arguments: deduction, induction, and abduction	p. 182
A Dialogic Model of Semiosis
Elements of Human Communication	p. 189
Utterer and interpreter	p. 190
Individuality and the ethics of inquiry	p. 194
The contract of dialogue	p. 198
Universes of discourse	p. 202
The common ground	p. 211
The utterance and the icon, index, symbol distinction	p. 222
Code and reference	p. 235
A Dialogic Model of Semiosis	p. 245
The semiotic pyramid	p. 245
The axes	p. 249
The triangular planes of the pyramid	p. 254
Beliefs, Rhetoric, and the Validity Basis of Speech	p. 272
The fixation of belief	p. 275
The presuppositions of rhetoric	p. 280
The validity claims of speech	p. 289
Semiotics and universal pragmatics	p. 303
Light
Light	p. 311
The traffic light as a system: Hjelmslev's analysis	p. 312
A pragmatic interpretation of the traffic light	p. 321
Basic properties of an intentionally produced semiotic	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 351
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