Michael, List: I honestly do not know much about linguistics, but I wonder if this online chapter from your 1983 book, *The Sense of Grammar: Language as Semiotic*, is still a good summary of your relevant views.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_monograph/chapter/3056317 Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 12:43 PM Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Edwina, List, > > I too hope that Michael might summarize at least some relevant aspects of > his work in 'markedness' for the List, or at least offer a few excerpts > from his several books and papers which take up the topic. Having read some > of Michael's work on markedness, its connection to meaning in Peirce's > sense seems to me patent as this excerpt from the Wikipedia article, > "Markedness," suggests. > > The work of Cornelius van Schooneveld, Edna Andrews > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Andrews>, Rodney Sangster, Yishai > Tobin and others on 'semantic invariance' (different general meanings > reflected in the contextual specific meanings of features) has further > developed the semantic analysis > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis_(linguistics)> of > grammatical items in terms of marked and unmarked features. Other > semiotically-oriented work has investigated the isomorphism of form and > meaning with less emphasis on invariance, including the efforts of Henning > Andersen, Michael Shapiro, and Edwin Battistella. Shapiro and Andrews have > especially made connections between the semiotic of C. S. Peirce > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Peirce> and markedness, treating it > "as species of interpretant" in Peirce's sign–object–interpretant triad. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness > > > I do not know Edna Andrew's work in this area. > > Best, > > Gary Richmond > > On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 1:25 PM Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > >> Michael - Why not instead provide us with a brief discussion of your >> discussion? >> >> Edwina >> >> On Feb 3, 2024, at 1:14 PM, Michael Shapiro <poo...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> To all participants in this discussion of interpretants I would like to >> recommend that they take a look at my discussion of markedness in one or >> more of my books, the latest being *The Logic of Lasnguage* (New York: >> Springer, 2022). Markedness in language is the epitomre of the relationship >> between sign and object. >> >>
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