Abstract
The article highlights a semiotically relevant aspect of Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems: its reception of the Saussurean dichotomies signifiant/signifié and langue/parole. Luhmann’s position is weighted against the Cours as well as Saussure’s original writings, sampling their approaches to form, meaning, the sign’s two-sidedness, and the relation of linguistic structure and speech events. Ultimately, the article proposes a social ontology of linguistic abstraction in line with general semiology that explains the motility of language through communication, thereby accounting for variability and optionality. It also indicates as to how the theoretical framework can feed into a model of linguistic description.
Acknowledgement
This article is a revised and expanded version of a presentation given at the nineteenth Congrès international des linguistes in Geneva in 2013.
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- Propaganda mala fide: Towards a comparative semiotics of violent religious persuasion
- Review article
- Peircean visual semiotics: Potentials to be explored
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Sports utility semiotics: A semantic differential study of symbolic potential in automobile design
- Making meaning in women’s spiritual autobiography: Language, materiality, and agency in colonial New Granada
- What is the proper characterization of the alphabet? VII: Sleight of hand
- Towards a semiotics of multilingualism
- In the arena: Communication between animals and Christians in damnatio ad bestias
- Dire l’indicible et décrire l’indescriptible: Ressources imagières et linguistiques des poilus
- Mathematics and Peirce’s semiotic
- Icarus ignored: Riffaterre and Eagleton on Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts
- The “monster” of Seymour Avenue: Internet crime news and Gothic reportage in the case of Ariel Castro
- Kenneth L. Pike and science fiction
- Environmental communications: The reader’s perspective
- A Peircean typology of cultural prime symbols: Culture as category
- The poetry of sound and the sound of poetry: Navajo poetry, phonological iconicity, and linguistic relativity
- The language of fashion in postmodern society: A social semiotic perspective
- From Saussure to sociology and back to linguistics: Niklas Luhmann’s reception of signifiant/signifié and langue/parole as the basis for a model of language change
- The machine or the garden: Semiotics and the American yard
- Photogénie as “the Other” of the semiotics of cinema: On Yuri Lotman’s concept of “the mythological”
- Who said it? Voices in news translation, from a semiotic perspective
- Why semiotics, why poetry?
- How brands (don’t) do things: Corporate branding as practices of imagining “commens”
- Film space as mental space
- Netizen communicology: China daily and the Internet construction of group culture
- Questions toward a Peircean phenomenological description of association
- Colonial bodies: Slavery, wage-slavery, and the representation of race
- Discourse analysis with Peirce? Making sense of discursive regularities: The case of online university prospectuses
- Heidegger and the signs of history
- To be continued: meaning-making in serialized manga as functional-multimodal narrative
- Empiricism within the limits of postmodernism alone: On the emergence of the logically real within the multi-perspectival field
- Propaganda mala fide: Towards a comparative semiotics of violent religious persuasion
- Review article
- Peircean visual semiotics: Potentials to be explored