Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics
... 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 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 ...
