The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories

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ID2390540
AuthorsClaudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera (0000-0003-3778-5369, Department of General Linguistics, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-01-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354067x251315730
OpenAlexW4406411326
LanguageEN
References cited33

This article will outline in general lines the tenets of Lotmanian and Peircean semiotics, observing their possible intersections and interactions as well as their theoretical incompatibilities. As history would have it, both traditions stem from different roots, and their playing along cannot be taken for granted. In examining these historical roots in light of the naturalizing project of current (bio)semiotics, we can hope to find some points to connect the more general points of the theories, despite potential conflicts in their views. It will be argued that the more mainstream accounts of biosemiotics can offer a productive prospect for the interface in the analysis of culture and cognition, while a rereading of Lotmanian commitments to a specific form of cultural semantics can bridge theoretical positions held within the Peircean paradigm of biosemiotics

Epistemology · Semiotics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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