Hypoiconicity, Semiosis and Peirce’s Immediate Object

• 作者: Tony Jappy
• 来源期刊: 语言与符号学研究
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: mode of representation image DIAGRAM METAPHOR category UNIVERSE INTENTIONALITY
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 1-36
• 页数: 36页
• 分类号: J534

摘要

Between 1865 and 1909 Peirce established over a dozen different sign taxonomies, most of which were established using his system of universal categories, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. Of these various systems, that of late 1903 with its universally-known iconindex-symbol division is the one most employed in the analysis of verbal and pictorial signs, as within this division the icon constitutes the sign’s purely formal, qualitative mode of representation showing how a sign might resemble its object. Now, Peirce further analyzed the icon into three more basic modes of qualitative representation, namely the hypoicons, thus enabling 'finer-grained' structural analyses of signs. However, in 1908 his conception of the way signs functioned developed into a very different, universebased, six-stage system, namely semiosis, from which the icon-index-symbol division,together with the hypoicons, was absent. Since, in view of the theoretical foundations distinguishing the three-division system of 1903 from the intention-based hexadic system of 1908, it might be thought that Peirce had introduced an unresolvable inconsistency into the two conceptions of the sign, the paper discusses ways for Peircean semiotics to accommodate, in examples of principally figurative pictorial representation, both the potential for structural analysis offered by hypoiconicity and the intentionality of semiosis. In this latter case, the role of the sign’s immediate object will be shown to be of considerable theoretical interest.