From Linguistics to General Semiotics - and Back Again

Description

On the relationship between linguistics and general semiotics. The by now well-established discipline semiotics sees itself as a further development of linguistics comprising a broad spectrum of non-verbal signs and sign systems. But this has not in reality brought any new insights that are fruitful for linguistics (as the study of a special case of semiotic systems) while the rapid developments in linguistics in the second half of the 20th century has lead to many results that general semiotics on the whole seems unaware of. Semiotics has an overfocus on the object-sign-relation, and has not managed to move forward to an action-perpective as exemplified by Speech Act Theory. Søren Kjørup is cited as an exception for his experimental introduction of the notion of "Pictorial Speech Acts". As a further development of this idea the concepts "Sign Act" and "Pictorial Act" are introduced.
Emneord: linguistics, semiotics, speech act theory, pictorial speech act, sign act, pictorial act

Period	10 May 2005
Event title	From Linguistics to General Semiotics - and Back Again
Event type	Conference
Location	Københavns Universitet, AmagerShow on map