Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics
... gives rise to persistent terminological difficulties, which surface in Aristotle’s treatment of the relationship between sign and symbol, in Charles S. Peirce and Roman Jakobson’s definitions and exemplifications of the sign-index, and in Roland Barthes’s theory of connotation. These two dimensions of sign activity receive a macrosemiotic interpretation in Yuri Lotman’s concept of the “system” and, more particularly, in his theory of the semiosphere: a distinctive participant in ...
