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From Logic of Relatives to Cognitive Semiotics: On some unsuspected correspondences between Peirce and Structuralism

From Logic of Relatives to Cognitive Semiotics: On some unsuspected correspondences between... Claudio Paolucci From Logic of Relatives to Cognitive Semiotics: On some unsuspected correspondences between Peirce and Stmcturalism This paper investigates the actuality of structuralism in its relaüonship with cognitive semanocs. It does so through a trajectory that begins with Peirce's Logic of Relatives, then Tesniere's and Greimas' actantial syntax are considered with respect to dynamic semiotics and Frege's chemistry of concepts, ending in cognitive semiotics. The articie argues for the complete compatibility of Peirce's semiotics with a structuralist episte- mology, of which the Logic of Relatives antidpates some fundamental traits. A Peirce-inspired intetpretative semiotics has often been opposed to structural and generative semiotics. This is not necessarily the case. Through passages from Peirce, Tesniere, Greimas and dynamic semiotics works, unsuspected echoes and correspondences are unveiled, but a cru- cial divergence also comes to light. The different authors share a concep- tion of the sentence as grounded on purely relational positions, called relatives or correlates (Peirce), actants (Tesniere) and proto-actants (Gre- imas). Peirce considers the primitive relatives as triads (the model of "A gives B to C") from which dyads can be generated. Contrarily, the Grei- masian development of structuralism decomposes actantial structures into primitive dyads ("A renounces to B" http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

From Logic of Relatives to Cognitive Semiotics: On some unsuspected correspondences between Peirce and Structuralism

Paolucci, Claudio
Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 3 (s1): 23 – Sep 1, 2008
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Claudio Paolucci From Logic of Relatives to Cognitive Semiotics: On some unsuspected correspondences between Peirce and Stmcturalism This paper investigates the actuality of structuralism in its relaüonship with cognitive semanocs. It does so through a trajectory that begins with Peirce's Logic of Relatives, then Tesniere's and Greimas' actantial syntax are considered with respect to dynamic semiotics and Frege's chemistry of concepts, ending in cognitive semiotics. The articie argues for the complete compatibility of Peirce's semiotics with a structuralist episte- mology, of which the Logic of Relatives antidpates some fundamental traits. A Peirce-inspired intetpretative semiotics has often been opposed to structural and generative semiotics. This is not necessarily the case. Through passages from Peirce, Tesniere, Greimas and dynamic semiotics works, unsuspected echoes and correspondences are unveiled, but a cru- cial divergence also comes to light. The different authors share a concep- tion of the sentence as grounded on purely relational positions, called relatives or correlates (Peirce), actants (Tesniere) and proto-actants (Gre- imas). Peirce considers the primitive relatives as triads (the model of "A gives B to C") from which dyads can be generated. Contrarily, the Grei- masian development of structuralism decomposes actantial structures into primitive dyads ("A renounces to B"

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Published: Sep 1, 2008

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