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Diverse phenomena in sociocultural life are analyzed with recourse to Pence's concept of the dicent interprétant. Attention to the semiotic role of the interpretant, itself a sign that articulates with connected signs in the generative process of semiosis, contributes to expanded understanding of ritual and attendant anthropological objects. I discuss how semiotic ideology makes possible, and makes real, a particular transformation of potentials of form expressed as likenesses into actual existents represented as contiguities. I develop an indexical treatment of such transformations that I label dicentization. Indexicality and iconicity have become central to linguistic anthropology and dicentization offers an account of how they work together beyond language in cultural semiosis. The article generalizes and applies the resulting explanatory model to a range of social phenomena described in the literature, including Aboriginal Australian iconography, Medieval Japanese asceticism, Homeric and Freudian psychologies of rage, and traps and primitivism in African and modern art. The analysis contributes to a semiotic realist conception of the continuity of representation and reality.

Peirce's sign type of “Dicent Indexical Legisigns” has received relatively little scholarly attention, and it is sometimes confused with the “Dicent Symbol” category. This stems from an inconsistency between Peirce's general explanation and his exemplifications of the category. Taking the lead from the latter, this paper argues that while the role of “Dicent Symbols” is descriptive, the task of “Dicent Indexical Legisigns” is not to describe but rather to establish identity of reference by connecting some proper name to an object or to another identifying sign of that object. Thus, it appears as an overlooked sign type playing an important role both in everyday agreement upon reference and in scientific negotiations over identity, terminology, existence, etc.

Against the view that symbol-based semiosis is a human cognitive uniqueness, we have argued that non-human primates such as African vervet monkeys possess symbolic competence, as formally defined by Charles S. Peirce. Here I develop this argument by showing that the equivocal role ascribed to symbols by “folk semiotics” stems from an incomplete application of the Peircean logical framework for the classification of signs, which describes three kinds of symbols: rheme, dicent and argument. In an attempt to advance in the classifying semiotic processes, Peirce proposed several typologies, with different degrees of refinement. Around 1903, he developed a division into ten classes. According to this typology, symbols can be further analysed in three subclasses (rheme, dicent, argument). I proceed to demonstrate that vervet monkeys employ dicent symbols. There are remarkable implications of this argument since ‘symbolic species theory’ fails to explore the vast Peircean semiotic philosophy to frame questions regarding the emergence and evolution of symbolic processes.

Shawn Perito, 19, of Belfast, aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, 18 months in jail with all but 60 days suspended and two years probation. Perito was accused of selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school in Belfast on Feb. 9. Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, James M. Fisk, 43, Belfast, $400, 48 hours in jail, license suspended for 90 days; Matthew G. Pearse, 22, Frankfort, $400, license suspended for 90 days; Jason S. Raven, 25, [Brooks], $400, license suspended for 90 days. Terry L. Weaver, 28, Rockland, theft of lobster from Port Clyde Co-op, five years in jail with all but 42 months suspended; operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, 90-day license suspension, $400; violation of conditions of release, terrorizing, 60 days in jail.

[DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell] took a pass at halfcourt and weaved through Morehead State's defense, scoring on a lay-in with 0.7 seconds showing to lift Illinois State to a 67-66 victory in the Redbirds' home opener. It went back and forth from there. [Deontae Hawkins]' jump hook put ISU ahead, 64-63, with 1:02 left. Paris Lee split a pair of free throws to give the Redbirds a 65-63 before [Miguel Dicent]'s 3-pointer. Akoon-Purcell paced ISU in the first half with 10 points, but also committed five of the Redbirds' nine turnovers. ISU shot 40.7 percent from the field (11 of 27), while Morehead State hit 41.7 percent (10 of 24).

Staff photos by Jill Brady Raphael Dicent, left, and Junior Suazo bow their heads in prayer during a special sanction ceremony of the first Seventh-day Adventist Spanish Church in Portland. LEFT: Pastor Julio Dicent leads an informal Bible-study discussion at ceremonies sanctioning the Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church last weekend.

Richard Whitehouse, 41, and Debra Dicent, 36, who police say burglarized homes in East Northport and Stony Brook earlier this year, were caught fleeing from a third burglary in Lake Ronkonkoma, Fourth Squad Det. William Hagemeyer said. Whitehouse and Dicent were arraigned Monday in First District Court in Central Islip. Whitehouse, of 24 Buick Dr., was charged with four counts of second-degree burglary, resisting arrest, second- degree assault, and violation of parole. Dicent, of 3333 Broadway, was charged with three counts of second-degree burglary. Both are being held at Suffolk County jail; Whitehouse in lieu of $28,000 bail, Dicent in lieu of $15,000 bail. Attorneys for Whitehouse and Dicent could not be reached to comment. - Samuel Bruchey In the end, detectives charged Andrew Zizzo, 32, of 38 Berkshire Rd., Bethpage, with three counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of third-degree grand larceny and one count of fourth-degree grand larceny, said Second Squad Det. Sgt. John MacEwen.

A lo largo de este estudio se intentará determinar hasta qué punto los denominados \"edenes artificiales\" estaban presentes en la obra literaria de Joaquín Dicenta y en qué medida éstos se manifestaban en la vida bohemia que se le atribuía. Una de las piezas claves para el análisis de esta cuestión será El Crimen de Ayer (1908), donde el autor, recreará la bohemia del literato francés Henry Murger, adaptándola, no obstante, a los vicios modernos del tiempo del que era contemporáneo. Una modernidad donde el éter será bebido en elegantes cócteles cosmopolitas y el opio se transportará encapsulado en tubitos de cristal. Todas estas escenas serán recogidas en esta obra del escritor bilbilitano, a la vez que se hará referencia, en otras piezas más, a los efectos que producía el consumo del éter y el opio, tanto en hombres como en muieres. Averiguar hasta qué punto Joaquín Dicenta sintonizaba con esa modernidad al hablarnos de estas drogas, será también, por consiguiente, otro de los retos plasmados en la investigación que aquí se desarrolla.

Miguel Arena, representante del Departamento de Salud de la ciudad, expreso su opinion sobre el reporte: ``No me sorprenden en absoluto cifras tan alarmantes. El SIDA es un fenomeno que ocurre en nuestra comunidad y hay que conscientizar a las personas sobre la necesidad de la prevencion''.