Semiotic Praxis: Studies in Pertinence and in the Means of by Georges Mounin

By Georges Mounin

Catherine Tihanyi Georges Mounin, a huge determine in modern French intellec­ tual existence, has made major and unique contributions in semiotics, I semantics, poetics, the linguistic idea and perform of translation, and the examine of the background of linguistics. he's famous to boot for a number of dec­ ades of literary feedback in aid of poets who have been frequently unknown on the time. although a few of his paintings has been translated into German, Ital­ ian, and Spanish, just a couple of articles were to be had thus far in English (Mounin 1974, 1976, 1980, 1981); hence the current assortment is the 1st full-length quantity of Mounin's works to be translated into English. The contents of Semiotic Praxis replicate Mounin's life-long situation to use semiotic idea to concrete gadgets. In so doing, he has tried to illustrate the usefulness of semiotics, to check and make clear its theoretical constructs and adjust them for this reason, and to assist lay down its medical foundations and map its barriers as a discipline.

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Even touching up and captions) of the "strong points" of the image to be emphasized, that is, the conveyed information's pertinent features (Albert Plecy, Grammaire ~M­ mentaire de /'image, 1968). But what of painting? Is it a nonlinguistic communication system, a "language" as it used to be called rather carelessly? Buyssens and Jeanne Martinet think that there is no simple answer and that if there is a communicating intention (the painter exhibits his paintings), it is tangled up with a primary impulse that does not owe much to communication, but rather to the need to express oneself, to give of oneself, to extract from SEMIOLOGY IN 1980 27 oneself things that spoken language cannot and does not know how to express, to the need of expansion of the self.

Thus, it is only after the completion of the model that it would be necessary to confront it with the reality it is supposed to account for, in order to verify the adequacy of the model; and even this step is of no major importance for some upholders of the primacy of the deductive hypothetical model, who hold that the simplicity of the model is more important than its concordance with the facts. On this point, the partisans of the position that a structure is a model independent of the object (Popper, Bach, Ruwet) exhibit a regrettable degree of offhandedness.

It began with Shannon and Weaver's work, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. I We must mention at the outset that even though this theory is known in French (and in many other languages today) by the name information theory, it originated as communication theory, a term still often found among specialists. But the word that reappears significantly in their works is the crucial term information transmission, a word which borrowers from other disciplines almost always forget along the way.

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