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  • 2016

  • Wight, Colin (2016): Theorizing the Mechanisms of Conceptual and Semiotic Space. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (2), S. 283-299. DOI: 10.1177/0048393103262554

    Abstract: In this piece the author takes issue with Mario Bunge's claims that conceptual and semiotic systems have "compositions, environments and structures, but no mechanisms." Structures, according to Bunge, can never be mechanisms in conceptual and semiotic systems. Contra this the author argues that in social systems, social structures (which are concept-dependent and reproduced and/or transformed, at least in part, semiotically), can be mechanisms in the sense that such structures are one of the processes in a concrete system that makes it what it is. As such, not only may conceptual and semiotic systems have mechanisms, but they may also themselves be considered some of the mechanisms that make the social what it is. As such, they can be said to possess powers and liabilities that neither reside at lower levels nor are explainable in terms of the lower level. To hold out the prospect of social explanation by conceptual and/or semiotic mechanisms does not represent an attempt to decouple these systems from material factors. What it does mean is that conceptual and/or semiotic systems can, potentially at least, play a role in social explanation; and themselves be subject to explanation.

    Keywords: Bunge, cause, conceptualism, Disziplin, emergence, Emergenz, Erklärung, Erklärung des Sozialen, explanation, Interaktion, Konzept, mechanisms, Ontologie, Philosophie, realism, Realismus, reductionism, Reduktionismus, semiotics, Semiotik, social, social realism, Sozialverhalten, structures, Strukturalismus, Strukturen, Systemtheorie, Theoriebegriffe, Überblick

  • 2003

  • Turner, M.; Fauconnier, G. (2003): Perception mixture and metaphor. In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik (25), S. 241-262

    Abstract: Widespread metaphors such as "he exploded" project physical categories to emotional phenomena. The traditional two-domain model of metaphor postulates that in such cases the source domain enables the understanding of the target domain. The authors prove that this model is sufficient to explain culturally entrenched metaphors, but fails to cope with more creative cases. They propose a more sophisticated multi-space model of conceptual projection which contains the blend as an additional domain. The power of this model is demonstrated by several analyses, e.g., of the "Grim Reaper', the "Birth Stork", the desktop metaphor of man-machine interaction as well as the decapitated speaker in Dante's Inferno.

    Keywords: blend (Wortkreuzung), Im (wissenschaftlichen) Diskurs, Linguistik, man-machine, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Metapher, Metaphern, Modell der Metapher, multi-space model, Multi-space model of conceptual projection, Reflexionen über MTR, Semiotik, technische Metaphern, Two-domain model of metaphor

  • 1976

  • Trabant, Jürgen (1976): Elemente der Semiotik. Tübingen; Basel: Francke Verlag

    Abstract: 20 Jahre hat die Erstausgabe dieses Titels bereits hinter sich (ID 24/76), dazu eine Überarbeitung unter dem Titel "Zeichen des Menschen" (nicht besprochen). Alle 3 Ausgaben stellen die aus verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen stammenden Theorieansätze knapp und verständlich dar; der 2. Teil des Buches ist einer handlungstheoretisch fundierten Semiotik gewidmet. - Aufgrund einer nicht sehr weitgehenden Aktualisierung ist Austausch der 2. Auflage nicht nötig, wohl aber der doch inzwischen deutlich weiterentwickelten Erstausgabe (sofern überhaupt noch im Bestand). Empfehlung: nach R. Keller (BA 1/96), der erstaunlicherweise im Literaturverzeichnis fehlt. (3) (LK/HAM: Pirsich)

    Keywords: Semiotik
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