Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
Stefano Traini, in Le due vie della semiotica, revisits and comments on Umberto Eco’s thought, particularly in relation to Lector in Fabula. Traini emphasizes that the notion of inference already plays a central role in several areas of semiotic theory: choosing a topic, for instance, involves an inference — a risky choice that may turn out to…
John Deely insists that Aristotle’s framework is not dualistic but trialistic. Against the widespread simplification that reduces his philosophy to a doctrine of matter and form—hylomorphism—Deely reminds us that Aristotle posits threeinseparable principles: “matter (hyle), form (morphe), and privation (steresis).” As Deely writes, “privation gets more or less swept aside in the history of philosophy, and the…
Patrizia Violi proposes to consider a specific form of the arts du faire: the art du dire. According to her, semiotics has long neglected this form of meaning production: its textualist tradition has led it to privilege the analysis of already textualized products rather than the practices that generate meaning. The discipline, in other words, has focused…