Głos Umberta Eco w semiotycznej debacie nad ikonizmem znaku
Umberto Eco’s voice in the semiotic debate on iconic sign

Author(s): Piero Polidoro
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: semiotics; visual semiotics; Umberto Eco; iconism; iconic sign
Summary/Abstract: The “debate on iconism” interested Semiotics from the 70s to the 90s. The problem was: are iconic signs (ie. paintings, pictures, drawings…) “natural” or motivated by the object they represent? Or are they arbitrary and conventional, as words in verbal language? Umberto Eco has had an central role in this debate. This article aims to give an account of Eco’s position about iconism and to explain why the debate was so important for contemporary Semiotics.

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