Suren Zolyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5978701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suren Zolyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suren |
| FAMILY NAME | Zolyan |
| SIGNATURE | ZOLYAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4422-5792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who is to be considered a speaker in macropragmatics
Pragmatics is typically understood as the study of relationship between the subject and the sign system. Therefore, identifying the subject is a crucial issue that influences the development of this field. However, it is still common to limit the concept of the subject in pragmatics to observable entities, primarily the speaker. The limitations of this approach become particularly evident in the study of suprapersonal communication, where institu…
Pragma-semantic a priori as a Condition of Possibility of Utterance
The author intends to expand upon Michel Foucault’s idea of the historical a priori by introducing the concept of pragma-semantic a priori. In Foucault’s The Order of Things the concept of historical a priori is used to determine the patterns of observation and description that were prevalent at a peculiar epoch. In The Archaeology of Knowledge, it was used to identify the conditions of possibility of utterances within discourses and discursive …
Semantics of linguistic sign in the light of the asymmetrical dualism theory
We address a possible development of a semiotic theory based on the principle of asymmetric dualism proposed by S. Kartsevsky. We identify its differences from the Saussurean view of sign and demonstrate that, while Kartsevsky adopts the principle of differentiation, he supplements it with a dynamic understanding of intrasystem relations. This makes it possible to construct multidimensional semiotic models describing how new meanings are generate…
Pragmatics as a Self-Generation of a Subject-on-Its Own
The article suggests reconsidering the accepted understanding of pragmatics as a relationship between a sign (system) and an autonomous subject. The possibility of this approach may be substantiated through Peirce’s ideas. In his concept, despite the presence of an interpretant and an interpretation, there is no room for an interpreter. Peirce’s understanding of sign as an algebraic relation did not require an appeal to thinking. However, the co…
Modal Semantics and Semiotic Instruments of Constructing of a Historical Memory
Historical memory represents the past by some semiotic tools: narratives, symbols, monuments, rituals, etc. The semantic criteria of truevalue assessment are not compatible with such representations. However, collective memory narratives pretend to be based on historical facts and represent the historical reality as it was. We suggest considering historical memory and its representation as a multilevel semantic system. The proposed description me…
Yuri Lotman
We attempt to systemize Yu. M. Lotman’s views on language and linguistics. “Language” is one of his most used terms. Lotman’s vision is based on the postulates of Saussurean linguistics, mainly in the version of Prague structuralism. At the same time, Lotman off ers a new look at solving the language speech dichotomy. He outlines the possibilities of an alternative conception, where the function of meaning-generation (rather than meaning-preserva…
From matter to form
We address issues of description of the origin and evolution of the genetic code from a semiotics standpoint. Developing the concept of codepoiesis introduced by Barbieri, a new idea of semio-poiesis is proposed. Semio-poiesis, a recursive auto-referential processing of semiotic system, becomes a form of organization of the bio-world when and while notions of meaning and aiming are introduced into it. The description of the genetic code as a semi…
Semiopoesis
The article develops the idea of Yu. S. Stepanov (1971) that meaning is not an exclusive property of sign systems used by man, and it is present in biosystems. We consider it as one of the specific forms of manifestation of autopoiesis, namely, establishing interconnections between two systems, one of which is used for the other, either a plane of expression or a plane of content. This specification concerning the genetic code has already been na…
How to reconcile Luhmann with Saussure
Meaning and Linguistic Sign in System Theory of Niklas Luhmann
The concept of meaning and communication is the core of the sociological conception of Niklas Luhmann. As he claims, “Meaning is co-present as a reference to the world in everything that is actualized... Society is a meaning constituting system” (Luhmann Niklas. Theory of Society. Stanford University Press, 2012, vol. 1). He considers the issue of a correlation of meaning with other concepts of his theory of social in almost all of his works. Obv…
General sociolinguistics, social semiotics and semiotics of culture – ex pluribus unum? Forty years after Language as Social Semiotic
The birth of social semiotics is usually associated with the publication of Michael Halliday’s book Language as Social Semiotic (1978). We try to draw attention to possible new developments in social semiotics, which still remain a potential transdisciplinary project for social sciences. In order to do this, we address the interrelation between sociolinguistics, social semiotics and the semiotics of culture. All of these describe mechanisms of me…
On the Theory of Traductological Relativity
Genome as (hyper)text
The similarity between language and genetic information transmission processing has been recognized since molecular genetics was founded. Numerous attempts have been made to use linguistics techniques to decipher protein genes. The modest informational impact of various approaches to decoding the "protein language" was predictable: this type of technique is limited by the processes of encoding and at best helps compile a dictionary of units. Howe…
Language and political reality
The domain of reference of political discourse is not autonomous from language; this domain is a construct generated by the discourse itself. Such an approach to the relation between language and political reality was expressed in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Concepts of modern semantics and pragmatics allow to explicate how language acts as both a form of constructing reality and a special type of social verbal behaviour. Language…
Shusha and Stepanakert — A United Capital for Nagorno Karabakh
General sociolinguistics, social semiotics and semiotics of culture – ex pluribus unum? Forty years after Language as Social Semiotic
The birth of social semiotics is usually associated with the publication of Michael Halliday’s book Language as Social Semiotic (1978). We try to draw attention to possible new developments in social semiotics, which still remain a potential transdisciplinary project for social sciences. In order to do this, we address the interrelation between sociolinguistics, social semiotics and the semiotics of culture. All of these describe mechanisms of me…
Genome as (hyper)text
The similarity between language and genetic information transmission processing has been recognized since molecular genetics was founded. Numerous attempts have been made to use linguistics techniques to decipher protein genes. The modest informational impact of various approaches to decoding the "protein language" was predictable: this type of technique is limited by the processes of encoding and at best helps compile a dictionary of units. Howe…
Shusha and Stepanakert — A United Capital for Nagorno Karabakh
Language and political reality
The domain of reference of political discourse is not autonomous from language; this domain is a construct generated by the discourse itself. Such an approach to the relation between language and political reality was expressed in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Concepts of modern semantics and pragmatics allow to explicate how language acts as both a form of constructing reality and a special type of social verbal behaviour. Language…
Genome as (hyper)text
The similarity between language and genetic information transmission processing has been recognized since molecular genetics was founded. Numerous attempts have been made to use linguistics techniques to decipher protein genes. The modest informational impact of various approaches to decoding the "protein language" was predictable: this type of technique is limited by the processes of encoding and at best helps compile a dictionary of units. Howe…
On the Theory of Traductological Relativity
Meaning and Linguistic Sign in System Theory of Niklas Luhmann
The concept of meaning and communication is the core of the sociological conception of Niklas Luhmann. As he claims, “Meaning is co-present as a reference to the world in everything that is actualized... Society is a meaning constituting system” (Luhmann Niklas. Theory of Society. Stanford University Press, 2012, vol. 1). He considers the issue of a correlation of meaning with other concepts of his theory of social in almost all of his works. Obv…
General sociolinguistics, social semiotics and semiotics of culture – ex pluribus unum? Forty years after Language as Social Semiotic
The birth of social semiotics is usually associated with the publication of Michael Halliday’s book Language as Social Semiotic (1978). We try to draw attention to possible new developments in social semiotics, which still remain a potential transdisciplinary project for social sciences. In order to do this, we address the interrelation between sociolinguistics, social semiotics and the semiotics of culture. All of these describe mechanisms of me…
Semiopoesis
The article develops the idea of Yu. S. Stepanov (1971) that meaning is not an exclusive property of sign systems used by man, and it is present in biosystems. We consider it as one of the specific forms of manifestation of autopoiesis, namely, establishing interconnections between two systems, one of which is used for the other, either a plane of expression or a plane of content. This specification concerning the genetic code has already been na…
How to reconcile Luhmann with Saussure
Modal Semantics and Semiotic Instruments of Constructing of a Historical Memory
Historical memory represents the past by some semiotic tools: narratives, symbols, monuments, rituals, etc. The semantic criteria of truevalue assessment are not compatible with such representations. However, collective memory narratives pretend to be based on historical facts and represent the historical reality as it was. We suggest considering historical memory and its representation as a multilevel semantic system. The proposed description me…
Yuri Lotman
We attempt to systemize Yu. M. Lotman’s views on language and linguistics. “Language” is one of his most used terms. Lotman’s vision is based on the postulates of Saussurean linguistics, mainly in the version of Prague structuralism. At the same time, Lotman off ers a new look at solving the language speech dichotomy. He outlines the possibilities of an alternative conception, where the function of meaning-generation (rather than meaning-preserva…
From matter to form
We address issues of description of the origin and evolution of the genetic code from a semiotics standpoint. Developing the concept of codepoiesis introduced by Barbieri, a new idea of semio-poiesis is proposed. Semio-poiesis, a recursive auto-referential processing of semiotic system, becomes a form of organization of the bio-world when and while notions of meaning and aiming are introduced into it. The description of the genetic code as a semi…
Semantics of linguistic sign in the light of the asymmetrical dualism theory
We address a possible development of a semiotic theory based on the principle of asymmetric dualism proposed by S. Kartsevsky. We identify its differences from the Saussurean view of sign and demonstrate that, while Kartsevsky adopts the principle of differentiation, he supplements it with a dynamic understanding of intrasystem relations. This makes it possible to construct multidimensional semiotic models describing how new meanings are generate…
Pragmatics as a Self-Generation of a Subject-on-Its Own
The article suggests reconsidering the accepted understanding of pragmatics as a relationship between a sign (system) and an autonomous subject. The possibility of this approach may be substantiated through Peirce’s ideas. In his concept, despite the presence of an interpretant and an interpretation, there is no room for an interpreter. Peirce’s understanding of sign as an algebraic relation did not require an appeal to thinking. However, the co…
Pragma-semantic a priori as a Condition of Possibility of Utterance
The author intends to expand upon Michel Foucault’s idea of the historical a priori by introducing the concept of pragma-semantic a priori. In Foucault’s The Order of Things the concept of historical a priori is used to determine the patterns of observation and description that were prevalent at a peculiar epoch. In The Archaeology of Knowledge, it was used to identify the conditions of possibility of utterances within discourses and discursive …
Who is to be considered a speaker in macropragmatics
Pragmatics is typically understood as the study of relationship between the subject and the sign system. Therefore, identifying the subject is a crucial issue that influences the development of this field. However, it is still common to limit the concept of the subject in pragmatics to observable entities, primarily the speaker. The limitations of this approach become particularly evident in the study of suprapersonal communication, where institu…
Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Semiotics (8 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Semiosis (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (3 works)