Abstract The current status of semiotics in society and the academic environment is rather marginal, and this is one of its many paradoxes (Gaines 2015). It is paradoxical because semiotics deals with all aspects of meaning; it is relevant to every field of inquiry (Posner et al. 2003) and is applicable to everyday experiences producing meaning. Yet, it is not an established field in most academic systems, and it lacks full recognition in the disciplinary ‘market’ (Rastier 2001). This paper discusses a particular aspect coming from a larger study carried out with 40 semiotics scholars in 12 countries in 3 languages (English, French and Spanish). I will focus on the construction and development of a prevailing discourse that intends to convey the practitioners’ own subjective experiences of living and working in a marginalised field.
符号学在社会和学术环境中的现状是相当边缘化的，这是它的许多悖论之一(Gaines 2015)。这是矛盾的，因为符号学涉及意义的所有方面;它与每一个探究领域都相关(Posner et al. 2003)，也适用于产生意义的日常体验。然而，在大多数学术体系中，它不是一个成熟的领域，并且在学科“市场”中缺乏充分的认可(Rastier 2001)。本文讨论了来自12个国家的40位符号学学者用3种语言(英语，法语和西班牙语)进行的一项更大的研究的一个特定方面。我将重点关注一种主流话语的构建和发展，这种话语旨在传达实践者在边缘化领域生活和工作的主观体验。
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Abstract This paper aims to report on a conference held on February 18, 2022, within the project HUGOD — “Humanities going digital”. The main objective of the article is to acquaint the reader with the project, its motivations and goals, and above all, with the content of the first conference within this project. It will introduce participating partner institutions, individual speakers, and the topics presented at this conference.
{"title":"Humanities going Digital — a Conference Report","authors":"Lenka Pivoňková","doi":"10.2478/lf-2022-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper aims to report on a conference held on February 18, 2022, within the project HUGOD — “Humanities going digital”. The main objective of the article is to acquaint the reader with the project, its motivations and goals, and above all, with the content of the first conference within this project. It will introduce participating partner institutions, individual speakers, and the topics presented at this conference.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115727495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The paper aims to evaluate the role of the philosophy of science in contemporary quanti-tative linguistics. The primary goal is the reflection of the scientific methods and models of scientific explanations (Köhler 1986, 2012) used in quantitative linguistics. The paper shows that the current philosophy of science has adopted some new approaches to ex-planation that are conducive to quantitative linguistics (Craver, Darden 2013, Eck, Mennes 2016). Above all, the philosophy of science offers new models of non-causal explanations (Reutlinger, Saatsi 2018; Lange 2017). The paper’s primary goal is to propose a new topo-logical model of explanation in system-theoretical linguistics, following Kostić’s (2019a) and Huneman’s (2018) approaches. This model of explanation overcomes various difficul-ties of functional explanation, such as the nature of the structural axiom and the func-tional equivalents. Simultaneously, it establishes a non-causal form of linguistic explana-tion which builds on the previous analysis of quantitative linguists (Andres 2009; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Solé 2003; Hřebíček 2002).
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Dan Faltýnek, Ľudmila Lacková, Petra Vaculíková, Lenka Pivoňková
Abstract This article was written in memory of professor Kořenský, a very prominent personality in Czech linguistics, the founder and former editor in chief of the journal Linguistic Frontiers. The purpose of this paper is to capture essential moments in the life of Professor Kořenský, his achievements and merits in the field of linguistics, and also to describe his unique personality. This article aims to remember this linguistic genius and share these memories with other readers of Linguistic Frontiers.
{"title":"Farewell with editor-in-chief, professor doctor Jan Kořenský","authors":"Dan Faltýnek, Ľudmila Lacková, Petra Vaculíková, Lenka Pivoňková","doi":"10.2478/lf-2022-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article was written in memory of professor Kořenský, a very prominent personality in Czech linguistics, the founder and former editor in chief of the journal Linguistic Frontiers. The purpose of this paper is to capture essential moments in the life of Professor Kořenský, his achievements and merits in the field of linguistics, and also to describe his unique personality. This article aims to remember this linguistic genius and share these memories with other readers of Linguistic Frontiers.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130707065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The present commentary addresses cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary theory of communication, signification, information, and cognition which is based on the work of Danish scholar Søren Brier. Cybersemiotics is a metatheory that encompasses the research programs of information theory, first and second-order cybernetics, Luhmann’s systems theory, cognitive sciences, Peircean biosemiotics, pragmatic linguistics, and language game theory. I will explore some of these theoretical frameworks and how cybersemiotics integrates them.
{"title":"Cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary view on communication, information, signification, and cognition","authors":"Carlos Vidales","doi":"10.2478/lf-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present commentary addresses cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary theory of communication, signification, information, and cognition which is based on the work of Danish scholar Søren Brier. Cybersemiotics is a metatheory that encompasses the research programs of information theory, first and second-order cybernetics, Luhmann’s systems theory, cognitive sciences, Peircean biosemiotics, pragmatic linguistics, and language game theory. I will explore some of these theoretical frameworks and how cybersemiotics integrates them.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116196254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Le XIXe siècle connaît un grand intérêt pour les sciences naturelles, intérêt qui va également se ressentir dans le domaine des sciences humaines. De nombreux scientifiques commencent à repenser leur domaine par le prisme des grandes théories comme le darwinisme, formulé en 1859 dans De l’origine des espèces. On remarque dès la moitié du XIXe siècle la volonté d’utiliser les savoirs et outils offerts par les sciences naturelles dans le cadre des sciences humaines, notamment la littérature. Plusieurs auteurs commencent ainsi à chercher à théoriser un nouveau type de critique littéraire qui serait basé sur une démarche purement scientifique. Nous chercherons ici à étudier l’influence des théories darwiniennes sur la théorie de l’évolution des genres proposée par Ferdinand Brunetière, plus particulièrement dans son ouvrage L’évolution des genres dans l’histoire de la littérature, issu de leçons données à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris en 1889.
{"title":"Ferdinand Brunetière : la critique littéraire « scientifique » et le darwinisme littéraire","authors":"J. Teixeira","doi":"10.2478/lf-2021-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Le XIXe siècle connaît un grand intérêt pour les sciences naturelles, intérêt qui va également se ressentir dans le domaine des sciences humaines. De nombreux scientifiques commencent à repenser leur domaine par le prisme des grandes théories comme le darwinisme, formulé en 1859 dans De l’origine des espèces. On remarque dès la moitié du XIXe siècle la volonté d’utiliser les savoirs et outils offerts par les sciences naturelles dans le cadre des sciences humaines, notamment la littérature. Plusieurs auteurs commencent ainsi à chercher à théoriser un nouveau type de critique littéraire qui serait basé sur une démarche purement scientifique. Nous chercherons ici à étudier l’influence des théories darwiniennes sur la théorie de l’évolution des genres proposée par Ferdinand Brunetière, plus particulièrement dans son ouvrage L’évolution des genres dans l’histoire de la littérature, issu de leçons données à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris en 1889.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131601397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article’s purpose is to analyse the derived forms of term frère in French culture, where its correspondent is frérot, and in Italian culture, where the correspondent is fratè. We will try to show how and why, if yes or not, the two terms represent the same realities in both languages; if there is a same semantic extension and how the speakers of both languages use the two derived forms in their conversations. This study is contrastive, and its objective is also to define convergences and divergences of the use of the two forms fratè and frérot in the languages under analysis, that is to say French and Italian.
{"title":"Termes d’adresse dans la société contemporaine: deux cultures à l’aune du regard du chercheur","authors":"Danut-Grigore Gavris","doi":"10.2478/lf-2021-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article’s purpose is to analyse the derived forms of term frère in French culture, where its correspondent is frérot, and in Italian culture, where the correspondent is fratè. We will try to show how and why, if yes or not, the two terms represent the same realities in both languages; if there is a same semantic extension and how the speakers of both languages use the two derived forms in their conversations. This study is contrastive, and its objective is also to define convergences and divergences of the use of the two forms fratè and frérot in the languages under analysis, that is to say French and Italian.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115423524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TRAJECTOIRES THÉORIQUES La nécessité de fonder la linguistique comme science donna lieu à la nécessaire circonscription du champ scientifique de la linguistique et par là, la définition de son objet. En tant que science, fondée sur le modèle des sciences humaines en particulier, la linguistique se devait de décrire la langue et non pas la prescrire. Aussi son objet ne pouvait-il être que phénomène soustrait à l’éphémère et à l’insondable subjectivité. Pour le dire en d’autres mots, la linguistique prenait pour objet les moyens du dire dans la langue plutôt que dans l’esprit du sujet parlant. Ce faisant, la linguistique s’arrêtait à la limite de la science de l’homme, là où la philosophie et la métaphysique investiguaient alors. Avec les apports de la psychologie1 et ceux de la philosophie de l’esprit, avec ce que l’on pourrait qualifier à la fois de tendance
{"title":"De la parole à la langue de bois : linguistique théorique et écrits profanes","authors":"I. Morillon","doi":"10.2478/lf-2021-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0019","url":null,"abstract":"TRAJECTOIRES THÉORIQUES La nécessité de fonder la linguistique comme science donna lieu à la nécessaire circonscription du champ scientifique de la linguistique et par là, la définition de son objet. En tant que science, fondée sur le modèle des sciences humaines en particulier, la linguistique se devait de décrire la langue et non pas la prescrire. Aussi son objet ne pouvait-il être que phénomène soustrait à l’éphémère et à l’insondable subjectivité. Pour le dire en d’autres mots, la linguistique prenait pour objet les moyens du dire dans la langue plutôt que dans l’esprit du sujet parlant. Ce faisant, la linguistique s’arrêtait à la limite de la science de l’homme, là où la philosophie et la métaphysique investiguaient alors. Avec les apports de la psychologie1 et ceux de la philosophie de l’esprit, avec ce que l’on pourrait qualifier à la fois de tendance","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116172395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The absence of morphological forms of the present indicative contrasts with the great diversity of its uses in the current moment but also in the past and the future. This simplicity is treated differently depending on the theories: proof that the present tense is whithout temporality or that it contains a "zero" morpheme that explains its value. Our study shows that the simplicity of the present tense is that in reality there are many and frequent forms specific not on the suffix inflection but on the stem.
{"title":"A propos de l’absence de forme du présent de l’indicatif","authors":"Guérin Olivia, Krazem Mustapha","doi":"10.2478/lf-2021-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The absence of morphological forms of the present indicative contrasts with the great diversity of its uses in the current moment but also in the past and the future. This simplicity is treated differently depending on the theories: proof that the present tense is whithout temporality or that it contains a \"zero\" morpheme that explains its value. Our study shows that the simplicity of the present tense is that in reality there are many and frequent forms specific not on the suffix inflection but on the stem.","PeriodicalId":354532,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Frontiers","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127832121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Il s’agit de montrer que la linguistique saussurienne a maintenu les positions conventionnelles de la psychologie d’alors. Les développements de cette dernière permettent de mieux comprendre la visée du « psychologisme » de Saussure. Cet arrière-fond conceptuel explicite l’origine et la portée de certains concepts-clés saussuriens : l’arbitraire du signe linguistique; le « signifiant » saussurien en tant « représentation du son »; la relation signifié/signifiant conçue comme « recto-verso d’une feuille de papier »; le modèle saussurien du signe linguistique. Ces éléments, déterminants pour sa portée et son influence, se rattachent aux développements de la psychologie de cette période : l’hétérogénéité constitutive du « Moi » tel qu’il est défini par Herbart et son école; la distinction entre l’acte de représenter (Vorstellen) et l’objet représenté (Vorgestellt) conçus respectivement comme une détermination ontologique et comme expression de la représentation; l’aperception; la notion de « représentation verbale » (Wortvorstellung) telle qu’elle a été successivement élaborée par la psychologie de la conscience au cours du XIXème siècle et résumé par W. Wundt en 1900
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