Rethinking the Peircean trichotomy of icon, index, and symbol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10739987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ersu Ding (0000-0001-9927-421X, Lingnan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 213 |
| Pages | 165-175 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2015-0134 |
| OpenAlex | W2521358521 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Classification of signs into various kinds is a vital enterprise in semiotic research. As early as over a century ago, the American semiotician Charles Sanders Peirce laid down a solid foundation for this work by proposing his famous trichotomy of signs. Later scholars have been mostly applying Peirce’s theory to their own semiotic studies rather than challenging the inadequacies that exist therein, thus giving rise to a great number of confusions or even contradictions. The present article modifies Peirce’s theory from the perspective of sign emergence and evolution and emphasizes the importance of understanding sign transformations
Art · Epistemology · Icon · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sign system · Symbol (formal) · Trichotomy (philosophy) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |