Dešifriranje: transsemiotička ljestvica avangarde
Decoding: the Trans-semiotic Scale of the Avantgarde

Summary/Abstract: The author defines the basic principle of the organization of the avantgardist text as decoding (unlike coding in classical organization). In the first paper the communicative act and some of its components are viewed from that point of view, while in the second paper the reflexivity of the avantgarde reading of language and culture, as well as the initial semio-creative and culture-creative instances are examined (and illustrated on paronyms, anagrams, and palindromes). The paper reaches the following conclusion: while in the process of solving the problem of semiosis of the avantgarde, it has disclosed the interval character of the sign in an avantgarde message and it points to the catachrestic character of the avantgarde way of thinking. It becomes obvious that here the sign is not autonomous and complete (self-contained). It is split into the levels of expression and of content of two contiguous plan es. The former consists of the plane of content (signified) without its own plane of expression (meaning without sign), and the latter is a plane of expression without its own content (signifier without signified, sign without meaning). It is this interval position of the sign that attributes to the semantic universe of the avantgarde text its transitivity and is defined as "the transsemiotic scale of the avantgarde". In this way the avantgarde message (text) repeats the structure of the language and the structure of culture, transforming language into the "language of languages" (i.e. into an analogy of culture), and culture into a "language above languages" (i.e. into an analogy of the language system), transcending from the culture of texts into the culture of codes. On account of this we could say that it is not the codes that communicate the text but that the text communicates the codes.

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