Epistemological Constraints and Phenomenological Issues

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The question to which semiolinguistics—understood as the set of disciplines dealing with signs and meaning—is always ultimately referred, and beyond all the theoretical systems it elaborates and the descriptions it accomplishes, is indeed that of the modalities of a legitimate recognition of its object, and more specifically, that of the form of intelligibility to which the phenomena it is interested in rightfully belong. In other words, and quickly put, what is always at issue in the final instance is how to think about this set of factualities that are called symbolic. This chapter attempts to provide some answers to this fundamental question, drawing on epistemological requirements, phenomenological perspectives and a morphodynamical approach of the Saussurean sign.

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    Bach (1973, p. 25): After recalling that the objective of a linguistic theory lies in that it “characterizes and provides for all sentences of language and only them”, Bach observes that “the instruction ‘all and only them’ is almost a tautology, a bit like the proposition ‘an adequate physical theory must account for all physical phenomena’ (and not for theological phenomena, etc.).”].

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Bondi, A., Piotrowski, D., Visetti, YM. (2023). Epistemological Constraints and Phenomenological Issues. In: Semiotic Perception and Dynamic Forms of Meaning. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42451-9_4

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