Dear Dimiter Dimov: Good to hear of your plans and the possibility of being able to pursue research along the lines indicated. I think this is the sort of question best answered in a separate message off-list because it requires an answer so specific to your particular case. I will be communicating with you further on this later today, then, in a separate message.
Best regards, Joseph Ransdell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dimiter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" <peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:40 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Need for counsel in Peirce matters Dear Prof. Ransdell, dear List Members, First of all I would like to thank the entire Peirce-L community for your efforts and persistence in discussing wide range of issues related to Peirce's philosophy and personality. I have learned a lot for the last year, since my subscription to the List. My name is Dimiter Dimov and I am a PhD Student at the Department for Theory and History of Culture (Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria). I am in my second year of study. My field of research is Peirce semiotics and more especially Iconicity. Peirce's philosophy is not very widely presented in Bulgaria and with my thesis I am facing (too boldly perhaps) both the introduction of Peirce's general conceptions (and their translation into the Bulgarian semiotical context) along with my more targeted research into the evolvement of Peirce's term of Iconicity and its later interpretations along the semiotical tradition. The provisional title of my dissertation is "The Realistic Shift in the Reading/Interpretations of Peirce's Iconicity". My supervisor is Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski (he is more into the French- Saussurian tradition, if I may call it this way) and we are both not very deep into the more general context of the Peircian branch of semiotics, especially in America and especially in its "Iconicity" aspect. However, the reason for contacting you is not my expectation to give me a full account of the Iconicity matters in the last few decades (although I believe you are able to). It is not possible in a single e-mail. The counsel I seek is more practical (of course I would no decline any advice and competent assistance on other issues but only if you have the time and patience to navigate me further on in our correspondence and my immaturity about Peirce). My research is funded by Tokyo Foundation (named after Riochi Sasakawa - http://www.tkfd.or.jp/eng/index.shtml) and along my regular research expenses I have a grant which allows me to spend from two to five months in foreign institution to conduct my research. This grant is to cover all expenses (travel, accommodation, daily allowances, library, etc.). In this respect I would like to ask for your counsel where in USA or in Europe (as long as it is closer) will be accessible a good archive, library (part of University department, Research Center) containing secondary literature about Iconicity and Peirce in general. On the basis of this information I will try to contact the suggested bodies and examine the possibility for formal invitation which will allow me to use the grant. This is really essential for my research because the access to literature about Perice and Iconicity in Bulgaria is very limited. Thank you very much in advance! Sincerely grateful, Dimiter Dimiter Dimov PhD Student Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" 70 Neofit Rilski Str., floor 3 - 4 Sofia 1000, Bulgaria tel.: +359 2 9803704 / fax: +359 2 9803662 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
