Abstraction as a limit to semiosis

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dc.contributor.authorWood, Tahir
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-07T12:37:48Z
dc.date.available2017-09-07T12:37:48Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn highly evolved culture, discourse is made up of complexes of implicit and explicit inter-textual relations, which form the meanings for new signifiers. Meanings for common abstract nouns are derived from the modeling of typical situations in everyday narratives. However at a further level of abstraction, models of discourses, which themselves contain abstract concepts, provide meanings for what are called �hyper-abstract� nominals. Here a certain limit is reached, and it is argued that this diachronic, onomasiological process provides a constraint on the notion of �unlimited semiosis.� This constraint has both natural and ethical aspects.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Science
dc.identifier.citationWood, T. (2013). Abstraction as a limit to semiosis. Semiotica, 197: 65-77en_US
dc.identifier.issn0037-1998
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0080
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3179
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0080
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectUnlimited semiosisen_US
dc.subjectAbstractionen_US
dc.subjectSymbolicen_US
dc.subjectInfinityen_US
dc.subjectConcreteen_US
dc.subjectDiscourseen_US
dc.titleAbstraction as a limit to semiosisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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