Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
From the science of signs to the semiotics of the text. The semiotic field and the theories of signification.
European structuralism finds its roots in the theoretical horizon opened by Ferdinand de Saussure. Yet, as Anne-Gaëlle Toutain and Ekaterina Velmezova observe, this origin is as much historical as it is problematic: “while such a conception corresponds to a historical reality, it nevertheless constitutes a theoretical and epistemological error.” The structuralists, they explain, misunderstood the content…
Is myth still relevant to everyday life? Can we say that myth still lives among us, though perhaps in altered forms? Even in the twenty-first century it remains an enigma for researchers, a phenomenon that has been examined through the lenses of ethnography, literary theory, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, and anthropology. In the mid-twentieth century,…
In Semiosis and Human Understanding, John Deely recalls that the very possibility of semiotics as a discipline—what he calls doctrina signorum—appeared only “late in the 4th century AD,” when Augustine of Hippo formulated, for the first time in recorded thought, a general notion of sign that embraced both nature and culture. According to Deely, Augustine proposed that “a sign is…