The Crisis of Semiotics at the Backgroud of Humanities and Natural Sciences: the Aspect of „Poetic Transcrption“ Cover Image

Кризис семиотики на фоне гуманитарных и естественных наук: аспект «поэтической транскрипции»
The Crisis of Semiotics at the Backgroud of Humanities and Natural Sciences: the Aspect of „Poetic Transcrption“

Author(s): Vladimír Franta
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: crisis of semiotics; humanities; natural sciences

Summary/Abstract: The following article concludes some thoughts on contemporary semiotics especially after the tendency of semioticians to see their own scientific branch still being in crisis has been repeatedly noticed. Having declared it to be a universal science, semioticians paradoxically keep distance from a broader look on basic principles of communication. This is why semiotics today resembles more religion or art than a pure science. It deepens into some strange sort of self apologetic instead of developing new methods of grasping the objects of its study. Even a persistent fear that semiotics will loose its ground and will dissimilate into other disciplines is observed too. The paper suggests to some extend what axioms might be reconsidered at least if not abandoned to improve the situation about semiotics.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-44
  • Page Count: 8