Winfried Nöth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 892306 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Winfried Nöth |
| NOMBRES | Winfried |
| APELLIDO | Nöth |
| FIRMA | NÖTH W |
| AFILIACIONES | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2518-9773 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Iconicidade linguística desde F. de Saussure e C. S. Peirce
The paper examines trends and tendencies in modern linguistics since Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles S. Peirce in the study of iconicity in spoken and written language. Saussure’s dogma of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign impeded research into linguistic iconicity for decades. Only in the 1980s did iconicity become a vital research field of modern linguistics (again). The paper argues further that Saussure’s concept of the arbitrary sig…
El concepto de símbolo revisitado
Este artículo presenta perspectivas complementarias al concepto de símbolo en Peirce y desarrolla el argumento de que definiciones del símbolo peirciano como un signo convencional son incompletas, pero no fundamentalmente erróneas. El autor demuestra que la noción de un símbolo natural en Peirce va más allá de las mentes humanas y necesita ser complementada con evidencia biológica y etológica. La teoría inicial de Peirce sobre el símbolo necesita…
Os códigos digitais
O artigo examina os conceitos do digital e da era digital e apresenta as seguintes reflexões sobre a ascensão e a queda do prestígio dos códigos digitais binários: a) as origens da digitalização do alfabeto com o código pirotelegráfico do Políbio na Antiguidade grega; b) a invenção do código binário do alfabeto de economia máxima por Francis Bacon; c) os códigos binários do século XVIII (George Murray, John Gamble); d) estruturas do código quase-…
Cognição, compreensão e algoritmos
Algoritmos são regras gerais que guiam computadores na resolução de problemas e execução de trabalhos. Nisso, eles fazem computadores interpretar e produzir signos. Um algoritmo é um legissigno simbólico argumentativo, o que implica que eles são agentes semióticos e participam em processo cognitivos. Implementados em máquinas de IA, os algoritmos também interpretam ícones diagramáticos, mas diferentemente dos humanos não ícones da classe das imag…
A linguística e a semiótica no quadro geral das ciências
The paper examines the place of semiotics and linguistics, as well as their historical precursors in the framework of the sciences in general. Early classifications of the sciences considered include those of Aristotle, the Scholastics, Francis Bacon, and John Locke. The focus of this paper is on XIXth-century systems. After a cursory glance at André-Marie Ampère’s and Roswell Park’s systems, the study will turn to the classifications of linguist…
Peirce’s iconicity and his image-diagram-metaphor triad revisited
This review article of Frederik Stjernfelt’s Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism (2022) argues that Peirce’s theory of iconicity with its subdivision into the image-diagram-metaphor triad must not be reduced to diagrammatic iconicity. The foundation of the triadic subdivision of the icon is not in Peirce’s diagrammatic logic but in Peirce’s cenopythagorean categories. A focus is on misinterpretations of Peirce’s concept of thirdness in the firstness of…
Os discursos literários, científicos e filosóficos em C. S. Peirce
Para Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), fundador do pragmatismo filosófico e da semiótica moderna, não há antagonismo entre os discursos literário e científico. Ambos os textos literário e científico são signos que propõem argumentos por meio de símbolos, índices e ícones. De modo similar, argumentos científicos e literários exercem uma agência semiótica autônoma e criam suas próprias realidades. O artigo apresenta Peirce como um cientista, bem como …
O paradoxo semiótico da improbabilidade da comunicação
O artigo interpreta o teorema da “improbabilidade da comunicação” de Niklas Luhmann como um argumento contra o ideal de uma congruência perfeita entre as mentes comunicantes, cujos precursores mais moderados são: (1) a teoria de Thomas Hobbes da comunicação enganosa, (2) as implicações da exclusão na etimologia da palavra comunicação, (3) as objeções da teoria do código de J. Lotman contra a ideia de comunicação com base em um código comum, (4) t…
Peirce’s more-than-human philosophy, its precursors, and its heirs
The paper discusses the more-than-human aspects of Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic philosophy, contextualizes it within the history of ideas (Aristotle, the Medievals, Montaigne, Descartes) and examines its syntony with and differences from 21 st century trends of cultural and philosophical studies (posthumanism, nonhuman studies, Object-Oriented-Ontology, and the more-than-human paradigm)
Os estudos egiptológicos de Charles S. Peirce
O artigo realiza um levantamento e apresenta uma análise crítica dos estudos de Peirce em egiptologia de 1885 a 1904, como documentados principalmente nos MSS 1227, 1228, 1244 e 1294. São examinados os estudos de Peirce e seus avanços em língua e escrita do Egito Faraônico, bem como suas análises das realizações científicas dos antigos egípcios. Entre os tópicos linguísticos em foco estão os pressupostos de Peirce a respeito da iconicidade da esc…
Peirce on learning and teaching
The paper is a precis of C. S. Peirce’s semiotic theory of education. It presents this theory of learning and teaching from the perspective of Peirce’s phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In the domain of Thirdness, learning is mediation between ignorance and knowledge, new information and old knowledge. Teaching has its focus on laws, symbols, legisigns, and reasoning. In the domain of Secondness, learners acquir…
Natural signs from Plato to Thomas A. Sebeok
The paper pays tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok with an inquiry into the place of the semiotics of nature within his system of “global semiotics” and of natural signs within his typology of signs, which distinguishes “six species of signs.” It complements Sebeok’s theory of natural signs with a historical study of semiotic definitions of natural signs in four chapters. The first, “Natural signs from Plato to the Scholastics” focuses on Plato’s Cratylu…
Cognição como semiose
El artículo trata sobre la interfaz entre la semiótica y la ciencia cognitiva, el campo de la investigación interdisciplinar en la encrucijada entre lingü.stica, antropología, psicología cognitiva, filosofía, neurociencia e inteligencia artificial. En él interpretamos una tendencia de la semiótica contemporánea conocida como semiótica cognitiva (Cogsem) a la luz de la semiótica cognitiva de C. S. Peirce. La semiótica cognitiva de Peirce no es el …
Linguistics and semiotics in the framework of sciences in general
The paper examines the place of semiotics and linguistics, as well as their historical precursors in the framework of the sciences in general. Early classifications of the sciences considered include those of Aristotle, the Scholastics, Francis Bacon, and John Locke. The focus of this paper is on XIXth century systems. After a cursory glance at André-Marie Ampère’s and Roswell Park’s systems, the study will turn to the classifications of linguist…
Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Value
The critical analysis examines the concept of value in C. S. Peirce's philosophical writings, distinguishing between value as (1) worth, (2) meaning, (3) significance, (4) semiotic value, (5) in the mathematical sense, (6) money value, and (7) value by other names. The focus is on value in the sense of Peirce's three normative sciences aesthetics, ethics, and logic. The values associated with them are detailed in their phenomenological contexts a…
Peirce's legacy for contemporary consciousness studies, the emergence of consciousness from qualia, and its evanescence in habits
The paper argues that contemporary consciousness studies can profit from Charles S. Peirce's philosophy of consciousness. It confronts mainstream tendencies in contemporary consciousness studies, including those which consider consciousness as an unsolvable mystery, with Peirce's phenomenological approach to consciousness. Peirce's answers to the following contemporary issues are presented: phenomenological consciousness and the qualia, conscious…
Trajectory
This paper examines how far the model of the trajectory as a path that a moving object follows from a source to a goal is an adequate model of the sign and of semiotic processes. Just like intentions, meanings, and messages, also signs have sources and goals. A study of the terms by which the Ancient Greeks referred to signs (sêma, semeîon, and tekmérion) reveals that the idea of goal-directedness is inherent in several respects in this early sem…
Time embodied as space in graphic narratives
The paper is a study of how graphic narratives (graphic novels and the comics) represent time in external visual space as well as in inner (mental) representations. Peirce’s semiotics is the main tool of research. After a survey of various approaches to the study of time in narratives in general and in graphic narratives in particular, an outline of the various aspects of the embodiment of time in space in general is given before the forms of the…
On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants
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…
The semiotics of models
The paper sheds light on the concept of model in ordinary language and in scientific discourse from the perspective of C. S. Peirce’s semiotics. It proposes a general Peircean framework for the definition of models of all kinds, including mental models. A survey of definitions of scientific models that have been influential in the philosophy of science and of the typologies proposed in this context is given. The author criticizes the heterogeneit…
Semiotics of the Media
Charles S. Peirce's Egyptological Studies
The paper gives a survey and presents a critical analysis of Peirce's studies in Egyptology from 1885 to 1904, as documented mainly in MSS 1227, 1228, 1244, and 1294. It examines Peirce's studies and advances in the language and script of Pharaonic Egypt as well as his assessments of the scientific achievements of the Ancient Egyptians. Among the linguistic topics in focus are Peirce's assumptions concerning the iconicity of hieroglyphic writing,…
O fundamento estrutural do pensamento de Umberto Eco
Uma análise detalhada apresenta o método argumentativo a contrario, característico do artigo "Existe a contracultura?", de Umberto Eco, como paradigmático do princípio estruturalista da constituição do sentido por meio de oposições semânticas. O artigo argumenta que muitos dos escritos de Eco podem ser lidos como aplicações do princípio estruturalista de que apenas diferenças ou oposições carregam significação. A evidência do modo como o pensamen…
Levi R. Bryant’s Universe Perfused with Machines
What is the difference between a refrigerator and a work of art? The question sounds like the introduction to a what-is-the-difference type of joke at the end of which we are induced to discover surprising common grounds between seemingly incompatible notions. What is the difference between a civil servant and wood?-Wood works
Peircean visual semiotics
Visual semiotics is a lively branch of semiotics.A quarter of a century ago, the International Association of Visual Semiotics was founded to bring together scholars in this field of semiotic studies and soon after, the visionary Thomas A. Sebeok, with Jean Umiker-Sebeok, already identified Advances in Visual Semiotics (1995).Meanwhile, the research field has gained profile.The year 2013 saw the publication of two monographs under the title "visu…
Handbook of Semiotics
The Criterion of Habit in Peirce's Definitions of the Symbol
The Criterion of Habit in Peirce's Definitions of the Symbol, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 46, No. 1, A Symposium in Memory of Peter H. Hare / Joseph Palencik & Russell Pryba, Guest Editors (Winter 2010), pp. 82-93
Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
Ecosemiotics is the study of sign processes (semioses) in relation to the natural environment in which they occur. The paper examines the cultural, biological, and evolutionary dimensions of ecosemioses on the basis of C. S. Peirce's theory of continuity between matter and mind and investigates the ecosemiotic dimensions of natural signs. Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature are distinguished from pansemiotism, and the coevolution of sign pro…
Ecosemiotics
Ecosemiotics
The topography of Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere
The purpose of the article is to examine Yuri Lotman’s models of the semiosphere and of semiotic spaces in literature and culture in the context of the spatial turn in cultural studies. It argues that Lotman’s writings anticipate the ‘spatial turn’ in cultural studies. Lotman’s semiosphere is a metaphor, which offers a spatial model for the interpretation of culture. A semiosphere is surrounded by a boundary. Its internal places are discontinuous…
The Semiotics of Learning New Words
Journal Article The Semiotics of Learning New Words Get access Winfried Nöth Winfried Nöth Correspondence: Winfried Nöth, Rua Dr. Franco da Rocha, 336-16, CEP 05015-040 São Paulo, SP Brazil. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 48, Issue 3, August 2014, Pages 446–456, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12076 Published: 12 May 2014
Umberto Eco's semiotic threshold
The "semiotic threshold" is U. Eco's metaphor of the borderline between the world of semiosis and the nonsemiotic world and hence also between semiotics and its neighboring disciplines. The paper examines Eco's threshold in comparison to the views of semiosis and semiotics of C. S. Peirce. While Eco follows the structuralist tradition, postulating the conventionality of signs as the main criterion of semiosis, Peirce has a much broader concept of…
Protosemiotics and physicosemiotics
Protosemiotics is the study of the rudiments of semiosis, primarily in nature. The extension of the semiotic field from culture to nature is both necessary and possible in the framework of Peirce's semiotic theory. Against this extension, the critique of pansemiotism has been raised. However, Peirce's semiotics is not pansemiotic since it is based on the criterion of thirdness, which is not ubiquitous in nature. The paper examines the criteria of…
Introduction
Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature
The growth of signs
The paper discusses the theory of semiosis in the context of Peirce’s philosophy of evolution. Focussing on the thesis that symbols grow by incorporating indices and icons, it proposes answers to the following questions: What does Peirce mean by the “self-development of signs” in nature and culture and by symbols as living things? How do signs grow? Do all signs grow, or do only symbols grow? Does the growth of signs presuppose semiotic agency, a…
The semiotics of models
The paper sheds light on the concept of model in ordinary language and in scientific discourse from the perspective of C. S. Peirce’s semiotics. It proposes a general Peircean framework for the definition of models of all kinds, including mental models. A survey of definitions of scientific models that have been influential in the philosophy of science and of the typologies proposed in this context is given. The author criticizes the heterogeneit…
Discovering ecosemiotics
Discovering ecosemiotics
Peirce's legacy for contemporary consciousness studies, the emergence of consciousness from qualia, and its evanescence in habits
The paper argues that contemporary consciousness studies can profit from Charles S. Peirce's philosophy of consciousness. It confronts mainstream tendencies in contemporary consciousness studies, including those which consider consciousness as an unsolvable mystery, with Peirce's phenomenological approach to consciousness. Peirce's answers to the following contemporary issues are presented: phenomenological consciousness and the qualia, conscious…
Peircean visual semiotics
Visual semiotics is a lively branch of semiotics.A quarter of a century ago, the International Association of Visual Semiotics was founded to bring together scholars in this field of semiotic studies and soon after, the visionary Thomas A. Sebeok, with Jean Umiker-Sebeok, already identified Advances in Visual Semiotics (1995).Meanwhile, the research field has gained profile.The year 2013 saw the publication of two monographs under the title "visu…
Crisis of representation
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Representation in semiotics and in computer science
Alors que le concept de representation est dans une periode de crise pour les philosophes postmodernes, les recherches en informatique et en intelligence artificielle ont resume la quete pour la nature de la representation dans leur projet de modeler la representation de la connaissance a l'aide de machines intelligentes. La question de la representation est egalement centrale dans les sciences de l'information. Toutefois, l'idee de la representa…
Charles S. Peirce's Egyptological Studies
The paper gives a survey and presents a critical analysis of Peirce's studies in Egyptology from 1885 to 1904, as documented mainly in MSS 1227, 1228, 1244, and 1294. It examines Peirce's studies and advances in the language and script of Pharaonic Egypt as well as his assessments of the scientific achievements of the Ancient Egyptians. Among the linguistic topics in focus are Peirce's assumptions concerning the iconicity of hieroglyphic writing,…
A Note on Peirce's Quotations of Persius's Half-Line hoc loquor inde est
This paper identifies the source of Peirce’s hitherto unidentified quotations of the Latin half-line hoc loquor inde est as a citation from Persius’s Satires, compares the original poetic context with Peirce’s usage of the quote, and examines Peirce’s use of it to express his ideas on cognition and semiosis as processes in the continuity of time
Translation and semiotic mediation
Translation, according to Charles S. Peirce, is semiotic mediation. In sign processes in general, the sign mediates between the object, which it represents, and its interpretant, the idea it evokes, the interpretation it creates, or the action it causes. To what extent does the way a translator mediates correspond to what a sign does in semiosis? The paper inquires into the parallels between the agency of the sign in semiosis and the agency of th…
Self-referential postmodernity
Contrary to the early media semioticians' claim that semiotics is a metalanguage of the media and the media are a metalanguage of reality, the present paper gives evidence of how the media represent a world that is itself highly mediated. It is argued that media representations involve self-referential loops in which communication turns out to be communication about communication, reports are reports about reports, and mediations are mediations o…
Humanities
Humanities: State and prospects
Yuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres
Yuri Lotman describes metaphors and culture as semiospheres or ‘semiotic spaces.’ This account of metaphors is self-referential insofar as it is itself expressed in the form of a metaphor. Moreover, according to Lotman, cultures in general are self-referential systems insofar as they tend to define themselves and evince isomorphic semiotic spaces at mutually inclusive levels and metalevels. Lotman describes semiospheres on the basis of dualisms, …
Semiotics of ideology
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Semiótica Da Magia
Semiotics of the Old English Charm
Perspektiven der diachronen linguistik
Homeostasis and Equilibrium in Linguistics and Text Analysis
Dynamik semiotischer Systeme
Dynamik semiotischer Systeme
Semiotics of the Old English Charm
Dependenzbeziehungen in der strukturalen syntax des Englischen
Handbuch der Semiotik
Handbuch der Semiotik
Nonverbale Kommunikation
Nonverbale Kommunikation hat sich als Terminus (1.) für einen Gegenstandsbereich durchgesetzt, dessen Extension nicht immer einheitlich bestimmt wird (2.). In diesem Handbuch umfaßt er die Gebiete →Gestik und »Körpersprache«, →Kinesik, →Mimik, →Blick- und →taktile Kommunikation sowie →Proxemik und teilweise →Chronemik, wobei jedoch die Semiotik des Raums und der Zeit auch andere semiotische Aspekte aufweist. — Während Sprache per definitionem kom…
Handbuch der Semiotik
Handbook of Semiotics
Signs
Semiótica Da Magia
Representation and legitimacy
Representation in semiotics and in computer science
Alors que le concept de representation est dans une periode de crise pour les philosophes postmodernes, les recherches en informatique et en intelligence artificielle ont resume la quete pour la nature de la representation dans leur projet de modeler la representation de la connaissance a l'aide de machines intelligentes. La question de la representation est egalement centrale dans les sciences de l'information. Toutefois, l'idee de la representa…
Ecosemiotics
Ecosemiotics
Umberto Eco's semiotic threshold
The "semiotic threshold" is U. Eco's metaphor of the borderline between the world of semiosis and the nonsemiotic world and hence also between semiotics and its neighboring disciplines. The paper examines Eco's threshold in comparison to the views of semiosis and semiotics of C. S. Peirce. While Eco follows the structuralist tradition, postulating the conventionality of signs as the main criterion of semiosis, Peirce has a much broader concept of…
Discovering ecosemiotics
Discovering ecosemiotics
Semiosis and the Umwelt of a robot
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Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
Ecosemiotics is the study of sign processes (semioses) in relation to the natural environment in which they occur. The paper examines the cultural, biological, and evolutionary dimensions of ecosemioses on the basis of C. S. Peirce's theory of continuity between matter and mind and investigates the ecosemiotic dimensions of natural signs. Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature are distinguished from pansemiotism, and the coevolution of sign pro…
Protosemiotics and physicosemiotics
Protosemiotics is the study of the rudiments of semiosis, primarily in nature. The extension of the semiotic field from culture to nature is both necessary and possible in the framework of Peirce's semiotic theory. Against this extension, the critique of pansemiotism has been raised. However, Peirce's semiotics is not pansemiotic since it is based on the criterion of thirdness, which is not ubiquitous in nature. The paper examines the criteria of…
Introduction
Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature
Semiotic foundations of the study of pictures
Are pictures signs? That pictures are signs is evident in the case of pictures that “represent”, but is not “representation” a synonym of “sign”, and if so, can non-representational paintings be considered signs? Some semioticians have declared that such pictures cannot be signs because they have no referent, and in phenomenology the opinion prevails that they are not signs because they are phenomena sui generis. The present approach follows C. S…
Crisis of representation
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Semiotics of ideology
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