While you need a curriculum in architectural history and semiotic theory to decipher the layers of reference in many post-modern buildings ( the " double coding " was once considered a strength ), Swissair speaks to the senses.
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Plato and Aristotle both explored the relationship between signs and the world, and Augustine considered the nature of the sign within a Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language ", has argued that semiotic theories are implicit in the work of most, perhaps all, major thinkers .)
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Although ontophantics is essentially a metaphysical doctrine, its starting point was a methodological approach through the philosophy of language, based on a realist semiotic theory to the effect that what is shown by language is also said ( as against the Tractarian dichotomy ), namely reality or being.
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Augustine has influenced many modern-day theologians and authors such as Aristotelian and Neoplatonist knowledge from the Middle Ages, via an Augustinian connection : " as for the constitution of Saussurian semiotic theory, the importance of the Augustinian thought contribution ( correlated to the Stoic one ) has also been recognized.
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Since 2009, there is also a Centre for Cognitive Semiotics ( CCS ) at Lund University ( Sweden ), which is headed by G�ran Sonesson, who has long been working in the direction of cognitive semiotics, integrating semiotic theory with experimental studies, mainly with application to the study of pictures.
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Some linguists have pointed out to the fact that Saussure did not'invent'semiotics but built upon Aristotelian and neoplatonist knowledge from the Middle Ages, particularly in regard to the writings of Augustine of Hippo : " as for the constitution of Saussurian semiotic theory, the importance of the Augustinian thought contribution ( correlated to the Stoic one ) has also been recognized.
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American philosopher and theologian Robert Corrington has advocated a syntheistic approach he refers to as " ecstatic naturalism " to religion and spirituality in a series of books, including " Nature's Sublime : An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism ", " Nature and Spirit : An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism " and " A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy ".
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The other major semiotic theory, developed by C . S . Peirce, defines the sign as a triadic relation as " something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity " This means that a sign is a relation between the sign vehicle ( the specific physical form of the sign ), a sign object ( the aspect of the world that the sign carries meaning about ) and an interpretant ( the meaning of the sign as understood by an interpreter ).
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Shaumyan's theory of applicative grammar was developed, reinforced, and extended in " Applicational Grammar as a Semiotic Theory of Natural Language ", ( 1977 ); in " A Semiotic Theory of Language " ( 1987 ); and finally in " Signs, Mind, and Reality " ( 2006, in the series Advances in Consciousness Research ), with the intriguing subtitle " A Theory of Language As the Folk Model of the World ".
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Shaumyan's theory of applicative grammar was developed, reinforced, and extended in " Applicational Grammar as a Semiotic Theory of Natural Language ", ( 1977 ); in " A Semiotic Theory of Language " ( 1987 ); and finally in " Signs, Mind, and Reality " ( 2006, in the series Advances in Consciousness Research ), with the intriguing subtitle " A Theory of Language As the Folk Model of the World ".
