摘要
本文在皮尔斯进化哲学的语境中,讨论符号活动理论。规约符通过融入指示符和像似符而得以生长,在此论点的基础上,本文旨在回答以下问题:皮尔斯所说的自然和文化中"符号的自我发展",以及规约符是有生命之物,是何意思?符号如何增长?是所有的符号都会增长,还是仅有规约符会生长?符号的增长是否预设了符号主体,若如此,当符号和符号系统增长时,符号活动的主体是谁?本文讨论了文化学家和历史语言学家对这一观点的反对,即在复合的文化中,符号仍然可以生长,而且一直在生长,并且平行比较了皮尔斯的符号生长论和模因理论及目的符号学理论之间的异同。
The paper discusses the theory of semiosis in the context of Peirce's philosophy of evolution. Focussing on the thesis that symbols grow by incorporating indices and icons, it proposes answers to the following questions: What does Peirce mean by the 'self-development of signs' in nature and culture and by symbols as living things? How do signs grow? Do all signs grow, or do only symbols grow? Does the growth of signs presuppose semiotic agency, and if so, who are the agents in semiosis when signs and sign systems grow? The paper discusses objections raised by culturalists and historical linguists against the assumption that signs can still grow and are still growing in complex cultures, and it draws parallels and points out differences between Peirce's theory of semiotic growth and the theories of memetics and teleosemiotics.
出处
《鄱阳湖学刊》
2016年第6期43-57,共15页
Journal of Poyang Lake
