The Machinery of Talk
Charles Peirce and the Sign Hypothesis
by Anne Freadman
310 pages· 2004· ISBN 9780804747400
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This radical re-evaluation of some standard debates surrounding Peirce’s theory of signs presents new interpretations of his work by studying his writings genealogically. Freadman uses the term genre to access Peirce’s work, and expands this original theoretical approach by proposing that “genre” interacts with “sign” and that this interaction is central to the study of the semiotic in general.
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