Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America

Summary/Abstract: The combined 29th & 30th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America was held on the campus of the University of West Florida in Pensacola on October 20–22. At this meeting, Professor Floyd Merrell of Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) was inscribed as the sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow. Professor Merrell’s Fellow Address, forthcoming in The American Journal of Semiotics, entitled “The Magical Number Three”, addressed the nature of the Peircean sign in light of a nonlinear, complemented, context-dependent lattice, with particular focus on how the lattice: (1) reveals the function of distinctions between signs; (2) supports Peirce’s triadic notion of semiosis; (3) models the notion of signs incessantly becoming other signs; (4) takes its leave of classical logical principles; and (5) accounts for the emergence of novelty — spontaneous, fresh, unique signs.

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