Theory of discourse and semiotics

Foucault, Bakhtin, Peirce

Abstract

The paper begins with an analysis of a news article reporting on scientific discovery. The scientific methods are considered from the point of view of Peircean semiotics and the structuralist semiology. The usefulness of the Peircean approach in literary scholarship is demonstrated in the case of the realist novel as it is construed by Hans Vilmar Geppert. By considering Geppert’s alignment of Bakhtin’s theory of the novel with Peirce’s sign-theory the similarities and differences between the discourse-theoretical (considering also Foucault’s work) and semiotic approaches is outlined. In the second part of the text two cases of artistic research are presented, the first one, the Friedhof Laguna project from 2003, being realised in the discourse-theoretical frameworks, and the second one, 3-D visualizations of the NEWW Women Writers database from 2017, being grounded in the Peircean semiotics.

Keywords

semiotics;semiology;theory of discourse;realist novel;scientific research;archives;artistic research;information visualization;Peirce;Charles Sanders;1839-1914;Saussure;Ferdinand de;1857-1913;Bakhtin;Mikhail Mikhailovich;1895-1975;Geppert;H. V.;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2019
Typology:	1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC:	82.0
COBISS:	5372667
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URN:	URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	Str. 67-84
ID:	11109261