Signs, webs, and memories
Umberto Eco as a (social) theorist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Cossu (0000-0003-2793-5968) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-89 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513617700414 |
| OpenAlex | W2601315365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
The article reviews Italian semiotician and philosopher Umberto Eco's vision of semiotics as a discipline, the aim of which is to study the 'whole of culture'. It focuses especially on Eco's trajectory out of structuralism and on the development of a cognitive semantics based on strong pragmatist principles, that inform his notion of interpretability as the key process of semiosis and on the encyclopedia as the format more apt to describe the cultural space. After a consideration of the interface between the cognitive, the pragmatic and the cultural dimensions of semiosis, the article highlights a few open problems in contemporary, culturally-oriented sociological theory that could benefit from a deeper engagement with these concepts
Epistemology · Pragmatism · Semiosis · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Social science · Social semiotics · Sociology · Anthropology · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies
From the Tree to the Labyrinth
The limits of interpretation
The Role of the Reader
Abductive Analysis
Course in General Linguistics
A Theory of Semiotics
The Interpretation of Cultures
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Agent, Person, Subject, Self
The Meanings of Social LifeA Cultural Sociology
Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Reassembling the Social
R e‐conceptualizing Abstract Conceptualization in Social Theory
Action and Its Environments
The semiotic stance
Rationalizing Musicality
A Pragmatist Theory of Social Mechanisms
The encyclopedia in Umberto Eco's semiotics
Umberto Eco and Charles Peirce
Life's a beach but you're an ant, and other unwelcome news for the sociology of culture
Central Problems in Social Theory
Logics of History
Structuralism
Cultural Analysis in Historical Sociology
Mechanisms and Meaning Structures
Why Cultural Sociology Is Not 'Idealist
Collective Memory
A Sociology of the Unmarked
A Theory of Structure
Language, Structure, and Measurement
Beyond the antinomies of structure
De-centered analysis
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |