Post-modernism, post-structuralism, post-semiotics? Sign theory at the fin de siècle

dc.contributor.authorPosner, Roland
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-30T10:20:14Z
dc.date.available2017-11-30T10:20:14Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.de
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en
dc.description.abstractThe contribution describes the differences between modernism and postmodernism as historical periods of the twentieth century and establishes comparable differences between structuralism and post-structuralism as semiotic approaches. Like modernism, structuralism rejects traditional modes of thought, attempts to reconstruct academic disciplines on the basis of a few fundamental principles and strives to work with reconstructed terminologies and axioms. Like post-modernism, post-structuralism is characterized by the necessity of finding ways to continue research based on the fragmentary results left by structuralist projects. In the beginning of the twentieth century, structuralism itself had responded to materialism, atomism, historicism, and naturalism by introducing its own methodology built around the dichotomies of signified and signifier, paradigm and syntagm, synchrony and diachrony, langue and parole. Rather than rejecting this apparatus, post-structuralism explicated the paradoxes behind these dichotomies and tried to overcome them by under-mining the first concept of each pair. This change of perspective foregrounded the material, processual, and intertextual character of signs as well as the sense-producing function of interpretation. Rejecting rigidly fixed methods as well as general theories, and waiving the distinction between object-signs and meta-signs in favor of their joint reflection, post-structuralist semiotics became an alternative to conventional practices of academic sign analysis and now approaches the status of an art.en
dc.identifier.eissn0037-1998
dc.identifier.issn1613-3692
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/7239
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-6515
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject.ddc400 Sprache
dc.subject.ddc410 Linguistik
dc.subject.othercontemporary semioticsen
dc.subject.othermodernismen
dc.subject.otherstructuralismen
dc.subject.otherpost-modernismen
dc.subject.otherpost-structuralismen
dc.subject.othersemiotic methodologyen
dc.titlePost-modernism, post-structuralism, post-semiotics? Sign theory at the fin de siècleen
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1515/semi.2011.002
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue183
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSemiotica
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameDe Gruyter
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin [u.a.]
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend30
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume2011
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tub.affiliationFak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Sprache und Kommunikationde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaftende
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Sprache und Kommunikationde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlin

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