Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Show Summary Details
More options …

Cognitive Semiotics

Editor-in-Chief: Bundgaard, Peer F.

2 Issues per year

Online
ISSN
2235-2066
See all formats and pricing
More options …

Deixis – a semiotic mystery: Enunciation and reference

Per Aage Brandt
Published Online: 2016-05-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2016-0001

Abstract

This note aims at clarifying the relation holding or not holding between deixis and indexicality, and then at elaborating a new model based on the Danish semiotic enunciation theory that could also account for reference. The “mystery” in question is the mysterious fact that the intersubjective aspect of deixis has to constitute the referential anchoring of signified meaning in the extra-communicational world. The model proposed may lay the ground for a new understanding of signs as such.

Keywords: deixis; index; enunciation; reference; common ground

References

  • Benveniste, É. 1966. L’homme dans la langue. In Gallimard (ed.), Problèmes de linguistique générale, vol. I, ch. V. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar

  • Brandt, L. 2013. The communicative mind: A linguistic exploration of conceptual integration and meaning construction. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.Google Scholar

  • Brandt, P. A. 1974. Talens tekst og udsigelsen. In GMT (ed.), Tegn Sætning Subjekt. Grenaa: GMT.Google Scholar

  • Brandt, P. A. 2004a. Evidentiality and enunciation: A cognitive and semiotic approach. In Juana Marín Arrese (ed.), Perspectives on evidentiality and modality. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.Google Scholar

  • Brandt, P. A. 2004b. Spaces, domains, and meaning: Essays in cognitive semiotics. European Semiotics 4. Berne: Peter Lang.Google Scholar

  • Diessel, H. 2006. Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 17. 4.Google Scholar

  • Diessel, H. 2012a. Bühler’s two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes. In Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, & Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), New Perspectives on Grammaticalization: Theoretical Understanding and Empirical Description, 35–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar

  • Diessel, H. 2012b. Deixis and demonstratives. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, & Paul Portner (eds.), An international handbook of natural language meaning, vol. 3, 2407–2431. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar

  • Eco, U. 1976. A theory of semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar

  • Peirce, C. S. 1982. The writings of Charles S. Peirce: A chronological edition, Vol 1–6, 8. Peirce Edition Project, editor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar

  • Rosenbaum, B. 2000. Tankeformer og talemåder. En undersøgelse af skizofrenes udsigelse, tankeforstyrrelse og kommunikation. Aarhus: Multivers.Google Scholar

  • Rosenbaum, B. & H. Sonne. 1986. The language of psychosis. New York and London: New York University Press.Google Scholar

About the article

Per Aage Brandt

Per Aage Brandt was born in 1944 in Buenos Aires. Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen 1971, Thèse d’Etat in Semio-Linguistics from the Sorbonne, Paris, 1987: La Charpente modale du sens (1992). Founder of The Center for Dynamic Semiotics, University of Aarhus. Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (2005–2011). Adj. Professor at CWRU (2011–present). Grand Prix de Philosophie de l’Académie Française 2002. Founder of the journal Cognitive Semiotics (2007–present). Spaces, Domains, and meaning, 2004. Morphologies of Meaning, 1995. Dynamique du sens, 1994. Works in linguistics, semiotics, poetics, cognitive semantics, aesthetics, philosophy.


Published Online: 2016-05-07

Published in Print: 2016-05-01


Citation Information: Cognitive Semiotics, Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 1–10, ISSN (Online) 2235-2066, ISSN (Print) 1662-1425, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2016-0001.

Export Citation

©2016 by De Gruyter Mouton.Get Permission

Comments (0)

Please log in or register to comment.
Log in