Clues as information, the semiotic gap, and inferential investigative processes, or making a (very small) contribution to the new discipline, Forensic Semiotics
Abstract
In this article, we try to contribute to the new discipline Forensic Semiotics – a discipline introduced by the Canadian polymath Marcel Danesi. We focus on clues as information and criminal investigative processes as inferential. These inferential (and Peircean) processes have a certain complexity consisting of the interrelation between the collateral observations of the investigator, e. g., his background knowledge concerning criminal and technical analysis, the context that the investigator acts within or in relation to (the universe of discourse), e. g., the scene of crime or the criminal law, as well as the clues as information that will cause the inferential processes in the first place. We believe that this focus can tell us something about crime solving that is not just sensitive to epistemological factors (how to know), but also ontological (what to know) and normative factors as well (how to value the processes of crime solving).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Passing-by “Ça va?” checks in clinic corridors
- Globalization and its determinative influence upon the humanities: A semiotic/hermeneutic diagnosis
- Gendering the nation: A case study on the postage stamps of Cyprus
- Clues as information, the semiotic gap, and inferential investigative processes, or making a (very small) contribution to the new discipline, Forensic Semiotics
- What we talk about when we talk about texts: Identity compressions and the ontology of the “work”
- We like to talk about smell: A worldly take on language, sensory experience, and the Internet
- Mapping our underlying cognitions and emotions about good environmental behavior: Why we fail to act despite the best of intentions
- Naive geography and geopolitical semiotics: The semiotic analysis of geomental maps of Russians
- The Transformations of Abduction: From the Inferential Model to the Logic of Relatives
- The “unknown voice” in Western history since Socrates
- Semiotic study for the analysis of communications within organizations: Theoretical approach from organizational semiotics
- Semiotics of ideocriticism: Four strategies of modeling
- Spectatorship as a play on moral ambiguities: Neuro-evolutionary semiotic approach to lowly arousal emotions
- Comparing the semiotic construction of attitudinal meanings in the multimodal manuscript, original published and adapted versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Semiotic modeling and education