The materiality of discourses and the semiotics of materials
A social perspective on the meaning potentials of written texts and furniture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4882775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Björkvall (0000-0002-6396-4240, Stockholm University, corresponding author), Anna-Malin Karlsson (0000-0002-5618-9573, Södertörn University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Issue | 187 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| 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/semi.2011.068 |
| OpenAlex | W2098580650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 5 |
Based on two studies of different meaning-making phenomena, post-it notes and furniture, this paper highlights the role of materiality in everyday semiosis. A perspective on the semiotics of material artifacts is adopted, in which the "social" in combination with the specific affordances of materials are crucial for meaning-making. Partially in opposition to a Saussurean view of the semiotic sign, it is argued that materiality in itself contributes to meaning-making, through discourses and activity types. This paper contributes to the theoretical and the methodological dialogue between social semiotics and other approaches in the wider field of semiotic research
Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing) · Meaning (existential) · Meaning-making · Perspective (graphical) · Semiosis · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Sign (mathematics) · Social semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Semiotics and Representation Studies
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| Citations per year | 1.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |