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Glossematic Semiotics

in Versus n. 115, L'albero e la rete. Ricognizione dello strutturalismo, pp.57-72

Abstract

By using the noun glossematics in its adjectival function, this paper
aims at drawing a distinction between Hjelmslev’s semiotics
and structural semiotics in a broader sense. Glossematic semiotics
brings together “facts” and “values”, nature and culture, physis
and logos. The sublogic of sign upon which it is based, i.e. the dimension
of reticularity, of entirety, of participation, appears to be
the missing link bridging the gap between the present perfect and
the future perfect of semiotics, by focusing the attention to the
iletic components of sense and by subverting the auto-referential
logos that pushes towards the search for an anonymous structure.