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> On Jun 15, 2025, at 10:19 AM, Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hugo, List,
>  
> These six tyes of sign action remind me of some model have seen before, was 
> it by Gary Fuhrman? Or by Gary Richmond? It is a model of sign triads 
> sticking together, and three arrows in a row going around in different ways, 
> leading also to different types of sign action. Maybe it is compatible with 
> your nodel, but I have not found it now in "Turning Signs", can somebody tell 
> us where to find it, and what I mean at all?
>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Helmut
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Juni 2025 um 11:15
> Von: "Hugo F. Alrøe" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Betreff: [PEIRCE-L] Types of sign action
> List, Cécile
> 
> The paper on the six types of sign action that I mentioned on the list a 
> little while ago has now been published online in Semiotica. The paper is 
> open access, and I have included a link and the abstract below.
> 
> As I write in the paper, I am thankful for inspiration from Peirce-L over the 
> years and in particular for the spiral-shaped drawing of the triadic sign in 
> semiosis provided by Cécile Cosculluela in the thread “Graphical 
> Representations of the Sign by Peirce,” January 2024, which inspired my 
> depiction of a "mediating representation" in the paper.
> 
> All the best,
> Hugo
> 
> Alrøe, Hugo F. (2025) The six types of sign action. Semiotica. 
> https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2024-0112
> 
> Abstract
> The Peircean doctrine of signs is incomplete. This paper rethinks the 
> standard model of sign action to provide a common framework for analyzing all 
> the different kinds of semiotic processes, including the workings of thinking 
> creatures, sentient beings, single cell organisms, social systems, and 
> sciences. Through a detailed theoretical analysis, the paper shows how we can 
> separate mediation (featuring the steps: source, mediator, and outcome) from 
> representation (featuring the conventional sign correlates: object, sign, and 
> interpretant) in Peircean semiotics and combine the two to establish a 
> general model of sign action. This leads to the fundamental and, in a 
> Peircean context, somewhat controversial ideas that there are not two but 
> three dynamical sign correlates and, notably, that there is not one direction 
> of mediation in the sign triad, but six directions, which constitute six 
> fundamental types of sign action: perceiving, acting, interpreting, 
> expressing, sensing, and reacting. The sixfold model of sign action is a step 
> toward a general theory of semiosis, it promises to reconcile the split in 
> biosemiotics, and it provides a coherent semiotic foundation for a general 
> theory of observation in science. Chiefly, it offers a workable framework for 
> semiotics.
>  
> --
> Hugo F. Alrøe, PhD
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