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Communicative interaction is never fully transparent. A definition in terms of pure transfer of information is an impoverishment of the semantic content of a message. Other emotional connotations of linguistic interaction are deeply rooted into the depth of the psychology of subjects. This means that the interaction is often manipulatory and even seductive. This paper tries to present in a more systematic way the conditions of manipulatory and seductive discursive production. Speech acts theory (Austin, Searle) and conversational logic (Grice) offered some tools to formalize more or less these subtle production conditions of non-transparent “communication”. Communicative interaction is never fully transparent. A definition in terms of pure transfer of information is an impoverishment of the semantic content of a message. Other emotional connotations of linguistic interaction are deeply rooted into the depth of the psychology of subjects. This means that the interaction is often manipulatory and even seductive. This paper tries to present in a more systematic way the conditions of manipulatory and seductive discursive production. Speech acts theory (Austin, Searle) and conversational logic (Grice) offered some tools to formalize more or less these subtle production conditions of non-transparent “communication”.

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Looking at the 'semiotic landscape' - the panorama of constituted semiotics - two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called 'Continental' semioticians refer to the sign theory in Saussure and in its interpretation by Hjelmslev (for instance, the École sémiotique de Paris). Evaluating each other's projects, methods, and results could lead to a balanced view. The purpose of this monograph is to get the best out of the adequate insights from both sides, and to make suggestions how the semioticians from the Peircean or Saussuro-Hjelmslevian school can be removed from their isolationist positions. A comparison and homologation of these two orientations will be carried out from the angle of the impact of pragmaticism on both semiotic orientations. How intentionality, action, conventionality, interlocution are integrated in both orientations will be given particular emphasis.

This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm.

De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse model gaat er immers vanuit dat de meest uiteenlopende verschijnselen geanalyseerd kunnen worden in termen van betekenisrelaties: niet alleen verhalen en andere tekstsoorten, maar ook beeldende kunst en architectuur, gedragsvormen en emoties.Dit boek wil - voor het eerst in het Nederlands - Greimas zelf aan het woord laten. Het bevat de basisteksten van zijn semiotisch project en belangrijke toepassingen op het vlak van de literatuurstudie, de esthetica en de epistemologie van de menswetenschappen. De teksten worden toegelicht door de vertalers en zijn voorzien van een uitvoerige algemene inleiding en een geannoteerde bibliografie.

Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in particular Peirce's work on ethics and aesthetics.The book is divided in four sections. Section I discusses the status of ethics as a normative science and its relation with logic; some applications are presented, e.g. in the field of bioethics. Section II investigates the specific position of Peircean aesthetics with regard to classical American philosophy, especially Buchler, to Husserlian phenomenology, and to European structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson). Section III contains papers on internal aspects of Peirce's aesthetics and its place in his thought. The final section presents applications of Peirce's aesthetic theory: analyses of visual art (mainly paintings), of literary texts and of musical meaning.