The Age of the Sign
New Light on the Role of the Fourteenth Century in the History of Semiotics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4922482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludger Kaczmarek (University of Münster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 509-516 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300012129 |
| OpenAlex | W1970052180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Semiotics, the age-old investigation of signs, is still striving for acknowledgement as a scientific (and academic) discipline. Though the 'linguistic turn' in the philosophical disciplines seemed to be followed by a 'semiotic turn' in many sciences during the 1970s, efforts were not crowned by great success. When seen from a certain distance, a definition of semiotics as a discipline can only be obtained from its history. Research into the sources of the human pre-occupation with signs, and with concepts or conceptions of signs, is really desirable and even necessary when a field of considerable scientific interest at the brink of being awarded the rank of a discipline runs the risk of getting lost between the unificationism of the Morris-type and the elegance of pseudo-mathematical empty classificationism (such as demonstrated in the late Max Bense's Stuttgart School) on the one side, and profitable exploitation of the sign's popularized design qualities on the other
Acknowledgement · Aesthetics · Elegance · Epistemology · Linguistics · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sign system · Social semiotics · Sociology · Architecture and Art History Studies · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |