Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics
The article demonstrates, through a series of examples, that reflection on signs relates to two distinct mental operations: the exchange of sign messages between subjects (communication), and the interpretation of signs and sign systems that lack a subjective sender and originate either in natural objects or in the impersonal domain of “culture”. This duality of the object of analysis gives rise to persistent terminological difficulties, which surface in Aristotle’s treatment of the relationship...
“The Bear-God dialogues” by Navarre Scott Momaday as a reflection of the national worldview of Native Americans
... 1999) by the Native American author N. Scott Momaday. It examines the influence of the beliefs of the indigenous peoples of North America on the author’s understanding of such aspects of consciousness and being as religion, language, time, space, art, and thought. The study highlights features of the Native American worldview, in which the images of God, the human being, and the animal, as well as the concept of the soul, have key conceptual significance. It also considers the interaction ...
