TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints3113
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3113/
A1  - Allott, Robin
Y1  - 1994///
N2  - Language is the type of semiosis which has been most closely examined and which has served as a model for considering other forms of semiosis. Semiotics has been based, certainly in the case of language, very much on the proposition of Saussure that the sign is arbitrary - a questionable idea (Holdcroft 1991) - and that the sign is conventional or social. If this fundamental idea of semiotics, and linguistics, is discarded, what does this do for semiotics, the 'science' of signs ? This paper seeks to trace out the implications for semiotics of a very different account from Saussure's of the origin, development and functioning of language, leaving it open whether one should conclude, in the light of this, that language does not constitute a paradigm or model for a general science of semiotics (and is not a typical or useful example of a semiotic system) or that language should be treated as the paradigm but a totally changed paradigm, so that the new view of language will require a restructuring of semiotics and lead to a much more biological and indeed neurological approach to the science of signs. 
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - semiotics
KW  -  language
KW  -  Peirce
KW  -  Saussure
KW  -  Barthes
KW  -  motor theory
KW  - perception
KW  -  sign systems
TI  - Language and the origin of semiosis
SP  - 255
AV  - public
EP  - 268
ER  -

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