On the linguistic expression of subjectivity: Towards a sign-centered approach

Sonnenhauser, Barbara

doi:10.1515/semi.2008.102

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“…Dynamicity of truth, in its turn, has been the point in subjectivity studies in psychology and philosophy. Thus, subjectivity presented a dynamic boundary in world interpretation by a human, and its world-creating potential has become an object of investigation in the semiotics (as cited by Peirce, 1967;Sonnenhauser, 2008) and philosophy (Langacker, 1990;Benveniste, 1971).…”

Section: The Chance For Change Vs the Need For Changementioning

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Turning Back to Nature: Perspectives of Biosemiotics in a Post-Pandemic Humanity

Livytska¹

2020

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The paper represents a view on a plausible way of development of scientific methods and methodologies of the humanitarian studies in the post-pandemic society. Starting with the analysis of the current state of "lockdown" and "isolation" in the atmosphere of fear and insecurity, the idea of better understanding the reasons of such a situation is connected with the possibilities of interdisciplinary approach, called "biosemiotics". In the context of paradigmatic change in the humanities, caused by the interpretative turn of deconstruction of the XX century, today's situation with COVID-19 is also regarded to be a turning point in the history of post-modern humanity. As it often happens in the periods of change and transformation, the humanity searches for the answers to the questions of ontological character: What do we know about the world today? How our knowing of the world can help us in solving current problems and preventing further disasters? Is human knowledge sufficient to treat global problems? Biosemiotics, as a interdisciplinary scientific project, based on the assumption that life and culture are fundamentally grounded in the semiosis and are subject to biological laws of nature (Hoffmeyer, 2010) can unite a century long divide in scientific tradition of separation Nature and Culture, Body and Mind.

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Section: The Chance For Change Vs the Need For Changementioning

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Turning Back to Nature: Perspectives of Biosemiotics in a Post-Pandemic Humanity

Livytska¹

2020

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“…It justifies the fact of circular repetitions of the basic scenario of story A in the following later stories (B, C, D, E, F). Mainly, these multiple relations between the aspects of a sign, affected by the personal experience of the reader (umwelt) can be viewed as manifestations of subjectivity (Sonnenhauser, 2008) (environment), narrative interpretation can be defined as a self-determined dynamic system, i.e. semiosis (Scheibmayer, 2004: 323).…”

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“…Seeing the source of subjectivity in most utterances of language as the interpretation of signs by agents (reader, author), this paper aims to describe a model of reader's abductive information processing, regulated by a sign-centered approach to communication (C. S. Peirce), where subjectivity is considered to be inherent in the very essence of signs (Sonnenhauser, 2008).…”

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Psycholinguistic Model of Abductive Reasoning in Fiction Narrative Discourse

Livytska¹

2020

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Aim: The paper aims at defining the role of abductive reasoning in the reader’s interpretation of English fiction narrative text. Three research questions are defined as follows: (1) what is the nature of sign interpretation in its application to textual analysis? (2) what linguistic factors determine the use of abduction in the interpretation of signs? (3) how to apply abductive reasoning in the process of reading and interpretation in EFL teaching practice? Abduction is viewed here as a type of reasoning in the three-componential semiotic model of argument and as a deductive hypothesis, responsible for implicit meaning processing (Charles Peirce). Materials and Methods: The paper states the four-stage process of abduction to be a basic inquiry method of the reader on his way to fiction world interpretation. By providing a step-by-step analysis of patterns of abductive reasoning in a short story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, the paper conducts a textual analysis of narratives in terms of subjectivity theory of communication, reflecting the mechanisms of reader’s manipulation with information as a dynamic semiotic process of interpretation, limited by habit (final interpretant). Results: of the research of the mental operations employed by the reader while processing textual information proved a strong interrelation of reading with writing, and mental sub-processes and operations. As the empirical research shows, the process of conceptualization demands a higher level of cognitive maturity on the part of the reader/writer, as it presupposes “knowledge transforming” operations as opposed to “knowledge telling” strategy (Paltridge et. al. 2009: 20). To represent this process schematically, scholars assign the reader/interpretant the central role in the process of triadic sign interpretation, as he makes the further interpretation possible by a reference to the environment (Scheibmayer 2004: 305). The interpretant (I) and Representamen (R1) refer to the same object (O); as Representamen (R2) stands in the same relation to object, represented by Representamen (R1) and to the system (O2), where it acquires the functions of the observer (Sonnenhauser, 2008: 331). Conclusions: The conclusions coming from this research lead to the recognition of the second-level (or third level) observer as a source of subjectivity. And subjectivity, in its turn, arises from the difference in interpretation of signs recognized and established by the observer (Maturana & Varela, 1980). Thus, the process of differentiation by the observer is expected to fix the possible existence of other meanings, produced by the relations of the interpretant to the environment. This is the notion of thirdness. And, therefore, “sign situation”, plays the role of marking the pairs of differentiation in semiotic interpretation of signs. And it is this differential potential of indexical components of signs, and not their relatedness of meaning, which makes communication dynamic.

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“…Шляхом аналітичного розгляду ключових підходів до категорії суб'єктності, остання представлена в статті як динамічна категорія, що породжує семіозис і формує «перспективізацію» в термінах С. Цеман (24). Дослідження фокусується на методологічних підходах до трактування поняття суб'єктності у працях (Jakobson, 1971;Benveniste, 1966;Lyons 1994;Langacker, 1990; Finegan, 1995) та семіотичного аналізу (Peirce, 1967;Sonnenhauser, 2008). Констатуючи трикомпонентну структуру комунікації (signinterpretation), яка характеризується взаємодією різних гіпотез водночас, поняття суб'єктності розуміємо як особливу форму взаємодії знакової наративної структури, семіозис.…”

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2019

International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology

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Збірник включено до Переліку наукових фахових видань України відповідно до наказу Міністерства освіти і науки України № 455 від 15.04.2014 р. Журнал включено до міжнародної наукометричної бази Index Copernicus International (Республіка Польща) Серію засновано у 2010 р. Засновник-Міжнародний гуманітарний університет Друкується за рішенням Вченої ради Міжнародного гуманітарного університету протокол 2 від 20.12.2019 р.

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On the linguistic expression of subjectivity: Towards a sign-centered approach

Cited by 4 publications

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Turning Back to Nature: Perspectives of Biosemiotics in a Post-Pandemic Humanity

Turning Back to Nature: Perspectives of Biosemiotics in a Post-Pandemic Humanity

Psycholinguistic Model of Abductive Reasoning in Fiction Narrative Discourse

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