From semiotics of hypermedia to physics of semiosis: A view from system theory
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V. V. Kryssanov
Abstract
Given that theoretical analysis and empirical validation is fundamental to any model, whether conceptual or formal, it is surprising that these two tools of scientific discovery are so often ignored in contemporary studies of communication. In this paper, we pursued the ideas of a) correcting and expanding the modeling approaches of linguistics, which are otherwise inapplicable (more precisely, which should not but are widely applied), to the general case of hypermedia-based communication, and b) developing techniques for empirical validation of semiotic models, which are nowadays routinely used to explore (in fact, to conjecture about) internal mechanisms of complex systems, yet on a purely speculative basis. This study thus offers two experimentally tested substantive contributions: the formal representation of communication as the mutually-orienting behavior of coupled autonomous systems, and the mathematical interpretation of the semiosis of communication, which together offer a concrete and parsimonious understanding of diverse communication phenomena.
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- Semiotic error in Roentgen diagnosis
- From semiotics of hypermedia to physics of semiosis: A view from system theory
- Sur la géométrisation de l'espace narratif dans le parcours interprétatif du texte littéraire
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- Deniers and the golden calf: From fetishes to idols
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- The forgotten art of isopsephy and the magic number KZ
- Code-switching and textual strategies in Nino Ricci's trilogy
- The concept of a symbol and the vacuousness of the symbolic conception of thought
- The evolution of human language and the genetic code: An endosemiotic analysis
- Hidden iconicity: A Peircean perspective on the Chinese picto-phonetic sign
- Cultures, timespace, and the border of borders: Posing as a theory of semiosic processes
- The construction of information and communication: A cybersemiotic reentry into Heinz von Foerster's metaphysical construction of second-order cybernetics
- Review of Processes and Boundaries of the Mind
- The universality and fecundity of Peirce's categories
