According to Hjelmslev the verbal substance is only one of the possible semiotic substances in which the "universal principle of formation" is accomplished. Glossematics is not onlya theory of verbal languages but also a rheory of language or of the whole semiotic purport. As science of the funcions which contains nothing except for its own form, this theory encounters Peicean iconism. The verbality and the linearity of the "signifiant" therefore lose their pre-eminence: the algebraic alphabet substitutes for the fonetc alphabet. The "Résumé of a theory of language" is a graphical representation, or a diagrammatical dictionary, and a terminological clarification of such an alphabet.
Hjelmslev, the verbal, and the form/icon
CAPUTO, Cosimo
2010-01-01
Abstract
According to Hjelmslev the verbal substance is only one of the possible semiotic substances in which the "universal principle of formation" is accomplished. Glossematics is not onlya theory of verbal languages but also a rheory of language or of the whole semiotic purport. As science of the funcions which contains nothing except for its own form, this theory encounters Peicean iconism. The verbality and the linearity of the "signifiant" therefore lose their pre-eminence: the algebraic alphabet substitutes for the fonetc alphabet. The "Résumé of a theory of language" is a graphical representation, or a diagrammatical dictionary, and a terminological clarification of such an alphabet.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
