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On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s Rules

  • Winfried Nöth EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 13. März 2019
Semiotica
Aus der Zeitschrift Semiotica Band 2019 Heft 228

Abstract

The paper begins with a survey of the state of the art in multimodal research, an international trend in applied semiotics, linguistics, and media studies, and goes on to compare its approach to verbal and nonverbal signs to Charles S. Peirce’s approach to signs and their classification. The author introduces the concept of transmodality to characterize the way in which Peirce’s classification of signs reflects the modes of multimodality research and argues that Peirce’s classification of the signs takes modes and modalities in two different respects into consideration, (1) from the perspective of the sign and (2) from the one of its interpretant. While current research in multimodality has its focus on the (external) sign in a communicative process, Peirce considers additionally the multimodality of the interpretants, i.e., the mental icons and indexical scenarios evoked in the interpreters’ minds. The paper illustrates and comments on the Peircean method of studying the multi and transmodality of signs in an analysis of Peirce’s close reading of Luke 19:30 in MS 599, Reason’s Rules, of c. 1902. As a sign, this text is “monomodal” insofar as it consists of printed words only. The study shows in which respects the interpretants of this text evince trans and multimodality.

Keywords: Charles S. Peirce; interpretant; multimedia; multimodal; transmodal; Reason’s Rules

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Published Online: 2019-03-13
Published in Print: 2019-05-07

© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. research article
  3. Introduction: Peirce’s extended theory and classifications of signs
  5. Semiosis is cognitive niche construction
  6. Peirce on facts, propositions, and the index
  7. Peirce on assertion and other speech acts
  8. Confidence through the semiotic process
  9. Diagrammatic relations of probative strength and inferential progression through semiotics
  10. On the immediate and dynamical interpretants and objects of signs
  11. Peirce and Dewey think about art: Quality and the theory of signs
  12. From phenomenology to ontology in Peirce’s typologies
  13. Reductionism in Peirce’s sign classifications and its remedy
  14. The trichotomic machine
  15. Peirce’s universal categories: On their potential for gesture theory and multimodal analysis
  16. On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s Rules
  17. Semeiotic completeness in the theory of signs
  18. Elements of Peircean phenomenology: From categories to signs by way of grounds
  19. Charles S. Peirce’s sign typology of 1903 and the semeiotic of universe, man, and culture
  20. Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticality
  21. Index as scaffold to logical and final interpretants: Compulsive urges and modal submissions
https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0087
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Charles S. Peirce; interpretant; multimedia; multimodal; transmodal; Reason’s Rules

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. research article
  3. Introduction: Peirce’s extended theory and classifications of signs
  5. Semiosis is cognitive niche construction
  6. Peirce on facts, propositions, and the index
  7. Peirce on assertion and other speech acts
  8. Confidence through the semiotic process
  9. Diagrammatic relations of probative strength and inferential progression through semiotics
  10. On the immediate and dynamical interpretants and objects of signs
  11. Peirce and Dewey think about art: Quality and the theory of signs
  12. From phenomenology to ontology in Peirce’s typologies
  13. Reductionism in Peirce’s sign classifications and its remedy
  14. The trichotomic machine
  15. Peirce’s universal categories: On their potential for gesture theory and multimodal analysis
  16. On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s Rules
  17. Semeiotic completeness in the theory of signs
  18. Elements of Peircean phenomenology: From categories to signs by way of grounds
  19. Charles S. Peirce’s sign typology of 1903 and the semeiotic of universe, man, and culture
  20. Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticality
  21. Index as scaffold to logical and final interpretants: Compulsive urges and modal submissions
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