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…
Patrizia Magli shows how value is not limited to a taxonomic function or to an individual thymic projection, but can take shape as an axiological system within a text. Axiology is the deep value-structure that supports the narrative: a mode of organizing content derived from the investment of the thymic category into a semantic category….
To narrate means to construct a world. Eco affirms this, and adds that such a world must be “so concrete that one can imagine stepping into it.” A world that stands “before our eyes,” where even the smallest details can be perceived, and that becomes populated with words almost spontaneously, as soon as we visualize…