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0377 The article before me is published by Sign System Studies<\/em> (volume 45(3\/4), 2017, pages 404-448) by two well-regarded semioticians.  The full title is “Boris Uspenskij on history, linguistics and semiotics”.  Kalevi Kull conducts the interviews.  Ekaterina Velmezova performs translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article consists of two sit-downs.  The first takes place at the end of a eighth session of the Tartu Summer School of Semiotics, in August 25, 2011.  The topic of the Summer School was Semiotic Modelling<\/em>.  The second takes place at Uspenskij’s home in Rome on May 27, 2012.  The questions are based on his book, Ego Loquens: Language and the Communicative Space<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0378 This examination seeks to appreciate how one of the leading figures of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, which flourished from the 1960s to the 1980s, weaves Saussure’s definition of spoken language<\/em> as two arbitrarily related systems of differences,<\/em> into a science-friendly inquiry into the literature of the Slavic civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0379 Two arbitrarily related system of differences?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parole<\/em> (speech talk) also corresponds to the written word as well as symbolic artifacts.  Parole<\/em> can be observed and measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Langue<\/em> (the machinations that automatically decode and encode speech talk) cannot be directly observed in the same way as parole<\/em>.  Yet, langue<\/em> is there.  It must be.  Otherwise there is no way that someone can think before speaking, should that person choose to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0380 Parole<\/em> and langue<\/em> are two contiguous real elements.  The continuity, if placed in brackets is [arbitrarily related].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This configuration satisfies the definition of Peirce’s category of secondness, where one real element [is contiguous with] another real element.  For Aristotle’s hylomorphe, the two real elements are matter and form.  I label the contiguity, [substance] or [substantiates], but it also could be [entangles].  Substance is typical.  Entanglement is tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0381 Here is a picture of the comparison between Aristotle’s hylomorphe and Saussure’s definition of language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0382 Saussure’s definition of language<\/em> appears to be scientific, because there is no substance<\/em>.  That is, there is no metaphysical reason<\/em> for why what we think<\/em> comes to be associated to what we say<\/em>.  So, the arbitrary relation<\/em> is simply a conditioned response<\/em>.  A conditioned response<\/em> conforms to truncated material and efficient causalities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another term for “conditioned response”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about “code” and “decode”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0383 Okay, if that is the case, then what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if what we think<\/em> (langue) is like matter?  What if what we say<\/em> (parole) is like form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, the contiguity, [arbitrary relation], seems to say that we can attach any word to any thought, without structure.  So, something structural<\/em> would need to situate the content of a spoken word,<\/em> even if that structure is a habit or a convention.  Once that happens, then the hylomorphe, {langue as matter [substantiates] parole as form}2a<\/sub>, occupies the actuality2a<\/sub> on the content-level of a two-level interscope.  Language2bm<\/sub><\/em> is the situation-level matter that induces a constellation of the content-level hylomorphe<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0384 Okay, if language2b<\/sub> is (by Saussure’s definition) the dyad, {langue2am<\/sub> [arbitrary relation] parole2af<\/sub>}, then how can language2b<\/sub> situate itself2a<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can only happen if language2b<\/sub> is already participating as a situation-level category-based nested form involved in the production of statements2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0385 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0386 It is as if the content-level actuality2a<\/sub> is immediately situated by a demand to substantiate a statement, as if language2b<\/sub> is matter and a statement2b<\/sub> is form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0387 But, obviously, there is more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The content-level actuality2a<\/sub> is accompanied by a normal context3a<\/sub> and potential1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So is the situation level actuality2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0388 For the content level,\u00a0the normal context of Saussure’s semiology3a<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0brings\u00a0the dyadic actuality of {langue as matter [substantiates] parole as form}2a<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0into relation with\u00a0the potential of ‘a signified and its signifier’1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0389 For the situation level,\u00a0the normal context of a linguistic structure (or genre or system)3b<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0brings\u00a0the dyadic actuality of {language as matter [substantiates] statements as form}2b<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0into relation with\u00a0the potential of ‘the laws of the system’1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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