Reflexivity and self-augmentation
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Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Abstract
In this article, sign and language systems are analyzed from the viewpoint of reflexivity — a system's ability to reinterpret its own output. Human and natural sign systems are reflexive, so this feature has not become an issue in the domain of semiotics. In contrast, not all computer language systems are reflexive, and analysis shows that there are degrees of reflexivity. The history of computer language systems can therefore be regarded as a journey to discover ways of exploiting the reflexivity inherent in each language system to make it more dynamic and self-augmenting. This article examines various computer language systems from the viewpoint of reflexivity and compares this feature with the same feature in human systems.
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- Two notions of indexicality
- The highway code in Nigeria: Examples of domestic strategies
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- Organizing connotations in works of visual art (through the example of works by Giovanni Bellini)
