Semiotic Modeling Systems, Primary and Secondary  

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Birnbaum, Henrik

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 1 (1990), page 53-63.
Fulltext: 12_01_Birnbaum.pdf (773.78KB)

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Proceeding from E. Cassirer’s notion of ‘symbolic forms’, among them linguistic expression as being more than mere representational “copies” of reality, the paper briefly reexamines the concept of ‘semiotic modeling systems’, primary and secondary, as conceived by members of the Moscow-Tartu School of semiotics of culture (notably, J. M. Lotman, V. V. Ivanov and B. A. Uspenskij). The Soviet semioticians’ singling out of ordinary language as being the only primary ‘modeling system’ is compared with L. Wittgenstein’s picture-theoretical view of language (set forth in his Tracrarus) and with L. Hjelmslev’s universalist ‘translatability criterion’ (formulated in his Language). The metaphoric use of the term ‘language’ in the broad sense equivalent to’modeling system’ is discussed and qualified. It is suggested that natural language is only one - albeit perhaps the most sophisticated - among several ‘primary modeling systems’ underlying a variety of manifestations of human civilization, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically. T. A. Sebeok’s idea of positing a further, basic (viz., non-verbal) semiotic ‘modeling system’ is discussed and reinterpreted in terms of ‘primary modeling systems’ other than verbal (linguistic).

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