Next Session - 24 March 2015

In this next session, Ângela Lacerda Nobre will establish a link between semiotics and evolution by focusing on the following table and paper:

                      Saussure's and Peirce's Interpretation of a Sign

- Saussure’s sign theory – ·         A sign is an arbitrary relation; ·         Each sign needs to be combinedwith other signs in order to produce meaning.

Signifier Sounds, letters, gestures.

Signified Image or concept to which thesignifier refers.

- Peirce’s sign theory – ·         A sign has a triadicrelation and is the basis of the theory of signification; ·         A sign has an inbuiltcapacity to create meaning; ·         Each sign develops infinitely in a permanentcycle.

Representamen The physical sign that is to be interpreted; “Something that does the representing” (equivalent to Saussure’s signifier).

Object Image or concept (equivalent to Saussure’ssignified).

Interpretant “A sign in the mind”; It becomes therepresentamen, i.e. the sign to be interpreted, as if it were a physical sign, in the next cycle.

                                                                                                from Ângela Nobre, Semiotic Learning, 2010

- Ângela Lacerda Nobre, Semiotic Learning, 2010: Semiotic Learning;

- Semiotic Learning and Beyond pptx presentation;

- ALNobre - Psychoanalysis and the Power of Deconstruction;

- ALNobre Think Happiness

See you there!