This article reflects on the concept of value,one of Saussure’s key concepts in semiology:this notion allows Saussure to avoid the question of traditional signification,which would involve a restricted understanding ...
The present study discusses how the emergence of semiology has outlined a new trajectory for visual and pictorial studies.First,we outline how Ferdinand de Saussure’s thoughts on the sign and its relation to visual c...
The Saussurian notion of semiology is closely linked to that of institution.In fact,in Saussure’s words,“systems of signs” are “social institutions”.Furthermore,language is conceived as a “special system” in re...
In the last two decades of his career,Saussure continually tried to clarify the status of signs,considering however that it was an “absurd task” attacking this “odd entity” consisting of the association of two het...
The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a key semiological concept.Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics presented it,particularly in the context of the opposition between absolute and relative arbitrariness,a...
The paper is a critical review of Levi R.Bryant's books Onto-Cartography:An Ontology of Machines and Media(2014) and The Democracy of Objects(2011) from the perspective of semiotics.It contrasts Charles S.Peirce's not...