Deborah Eicher-Catt
Biographic Data
| ID | 239820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Eicher-Catt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Eicher-Catt |
| SIGNATURE | EICHER-CATT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peirce, Dewey, and the Aesthetics of Semioethics: Felt Qualities, Embodied Intensities, and the Precarity of Relational Fulfillment
This essay interrogates the aesthetic ground of Ponzio and Petrilli’s 2003 concept “semioethics” as activated by what they call a “logic of otherness”. I take my lead from Charles S. Peirce’s assertion that “Ethics, or the science of right and wrong, must appeal to Esthetics for aid in determining the summum bonum" (1903: CP 1.191). Given that Peirce’s esthetics, depicted as the first of his normative sciences, “ought to repose on phenomenology” …
The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation
Article The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation was published on September 1, 2021 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 7, issue 3)
Enchantment and the Serious Play of A(musement)
Herein, I interrogate the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a playful sign process. Arguing against the Weberian notion that we are living in a "disenchanted world," I aim to reveal how the existing contours of enchantment's sign condition have significantly morphed in America, however, given our current distracting media-saturated environments. I begin by discussing enchantment as a form or habit of play, drawing specifically from th…
Special Issue: The Play of Signs/The Signs of Play
This special issue of Language and Semiotic Studies showcases the work of eight American semioticians who are current members of the Semiotic Society of America.Earlier versions of these articles were presented at the 42nd
A prelude to a semioethics of dialogue: The aesthetics of enchantment in a new key
This paper interrogates the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a sign process. I argue that our ethical intentionality in the world is significantly enhanced when we understand how the aesthetics of enchantment conditions the very possibility of such an ethic as a semiotic phenomenological event of dialogue. First, I discuss a key problematic of contemporary life – our culture of distraction and its impact on our dialogic relations. Ne…
Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
This paper contextualizes the topic of play as an essential aspect of homo ludens (Huizinga 1949, Homo ludens: A study of the play-element in culture . Abingdon: Routledge). I explore play as an abductive, semiotic process and phenomenological event according to Peirce’s categories of experience known as Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. We find that play is an integral aspect of human learning and, in some of its manifestations, can be linke…
Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond
Advancing Family Communication Scholarship: Toward a Communicology of the Family
In this article I argue for advancing family communication scholarship by incorporating more methodologies like communicology, which reflect human science systems of inquiry. Foremost, communicology offers a paradigm exemplar of the methodological integration of semiotic and phenomenological theory. We find that communicology is one among a number of emerging postmodern perspectives, like narratology and performance theory, for example, which eff…
Noncustodial Mothering: A Cultural Paradox of Competent Performance-Performative Competence
This article interrogates the cultural experience of being a noncustodial mother. Framed by the discrete event of child visitation, the author provides a personal account of her struggles to perform successfully in such a constraining context of discourse. Employing a dramatistic metaphor, she extends the praxis of autoethnography by critically exploring the semiotic and phenomenological nature of this communicative experience. She reveals that n…
Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond
Noncustodial Mothering: A Cultural Paradox of Competent Performance-Performative Competence
This article interrogates the cultural experience of being a noncustodial mother. Framed by the discrete event of child visitation, the author provides a personal account of her struggles to perform successfully in such a constraining context of discourse. Employing a dramatistic metaphor, she extends the praxis of autoethnography by critically exploring the semiotic and phenomenological nature of this communicative experience. She reveals that n…
Noncustodial Mothering: A Cultural Paradox of Competent Performance-Performative Competence
This article interrogates the cultural experience of being a noncustodial mother. Framed by the discrete event of child visitation, the author provides a personal account of her struggles to perform successfully in such a constraining context of discourse. Employing a dramatistic metaphor, she extends the praxis of autoethnography by critically exploring the semiotic and phenomenological nature of this communicative experience. She reveals that n…
Advancing Family Communication Scholarship: Toward a Communicology of the Family
In this article I argue for advancing family communication scholarship by incorporating more methodologies like communicology, which reflect human science systems of inquiry. Foremost, communicology offers a paradigm exemplar of the methodological integration of semiotic and phenomenological theory. We find that communicology is one among a number of emerging postmodern perspectives, like narratology and performance theory, for example, which eff…
Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond
Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
This paper contextualizes the topic of play as an essential aspect of homo ludens (Huizinga 1949, Homo ludens: A study of the play-element in culture . Abingdon: Routledge). I explore play as an abductive, semiotic process and phenomenological event according to Peirce’s categories of experience known as Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. We find that play is an integral aspect of human learning and, in some of its manifestations, can be linke…
A prelude to a semioethics of dialogue: The aesthetics of enchantment in a new key
This paper interrogates the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a sign process. I argue that our ethical intentionality in the world is significantly enhanced when we understand how the aesthetics of enchantment conditions the very possibility of such an ethic as a semiotic phenomenological event of dialogue. First, I discuss a key problematic of contemporary life – our culture of distraction and its impact on our dialogic relations. Ne…
Enchantment and the Serious Play of A(musement)
Herein, I interrogate the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a playful sign process. Arguing against the Weberian notion that we are living in a "disenchanted world," I aim to reveal how the existing contours of enchantment's sign condition have significantly morphed in America, however, given our current distracting media-saturated environments. I begin by discussing enchantment as a form or habit of play, drawing specifically from th…
Special Issue: The Play of Signs/The Signs of Play
This special issue of Language and Semiotic Studies showcases the work of eight American semioticians who are current members of the Semiotic Society of America.Earlier versions of these articles were presented at the 42nd
Peirce, Dewey, and the Aesthetics of Semioethics: Felt Qualities, Embodied Intensities, and the Precarity of Relational Fulfillment
This essay interrogates the aesthetic ground of Ponzio and Petrilli’s 2003 concept “semioethics” as activated by what they call a “logic of otherness”. I take my lead from Charles S. Peirce’s assertion that “Ethics, or the science of right and wrong, must appeal to Esthetics for aid in determining the summum bonum" (1903: CP 1.191). Given that Peirce’s esthetics, depicted as the first of his normative sciences, “ought to repose on phenomenology” …
The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation
Article The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation was published on September 1, 2021 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 7, issue 3)
Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Semiotics (3 works) · Art (2 works)