Re: Semiotics

"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:1joLe.5031$RZ2.3346_at_newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> If semiotics is all about writers like Humberto Eco, then it's a little
> far
> afield even for my tastes.

Among the original contributors to the field were folks like the logician Charles Sanders Peirce and the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who is considered to be the founder og the modern linguistics. Recently, semiotics has been polluted (or improved upon depending on the point of view) by people like Derrida (see Sokal's hoax).

As to Umberto Eco, I am no familiar with his work as a semiotician (as opposed to his literary contributions).

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> Now, if Eco had written about say, how we name data, I might have read
> him
> a little more.
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> Let's say that Humberto Eco wrote a paper on practical considerations to
> consider when choosing a primary key for a table, if there is more than
> one
> suitable candidate key. I probably would have read such a paper.
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> Then again, if Humberto Eco had written a paper on this subject, he
> might
> have entitled it "The name of the rows." (little joke).
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Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 12:09:09 CDT