SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS An Evaluative Comparison of Conceptual Frameworks -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- 0. INTRODUCTION: SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS - THEIR UNITY AND DIVERSITY -- (I) Normative semiotics, analytical semiotics, structural semiotics -- (II) Pragmatism, pragmatics, pragmaticism -- 1. SEMIOTICS AS A PARADIGM -- 1.1. First Philosophies -- (I) The teleology of First Philosophies -- (II) The logical order of paradigmatical categories -- 1.2. The semiotic subdisciplines and their intermediation -- (I) Tridimensional semiotics -- (II) The three subdisciplines and their perverse counterparts -- (III) Morris'shift -- (IV) Grice and Carnap -- (V) Quine and Gadamer -- (VI) Poverty of semiotics and richness of semiosis -- 1.3. Normative Semiotics -- (I) Hegel, Marx, Heidegger -- (II) Object, sign, subject -- (III) Four types of semiotic circuits -- (IV) Presentation, articulation, presentification -- 2. THE TWO SEMIOTICS: PEIRCE AND HJELMSLEV -- 2.1. The nature of semiotics -- 2.1.1. Contexts of origin -- (I) Between psychology and sociology -- (II) Deflecting from the origin -- 2.1.2. Triadism and dyadism of the sign relation -- (I) Trichotomic classifications -- (II) Linearity, temporality, and dichotomies -- (III) The boundaries between the semiotic and the non-semiotic -- (IV) The foundation of semiotics -- (V) Sign as a relation versus sign as an action -- 2.1.3. Semiosis, significance and communicability -- (I) From 'meaning versus commu nication' to 'significance and communicability -- (II) Communion, community, communality -- (III) Co-textual context and communicational context -- (IV) The Homeric struggle -- (V) Frege and Wittgenstein -- (VI) The fate of third terms -- (VII) A 'degree of combination ' o f significance and communicability -- 2.2. The object of semiotics.

2.2.1. Relations, rules, and strategies -- (I) The network of relations and the semiotic production of signification -- (II) Sense as transposition o f sense -- (III) Networks of presciptions -- (IV) Doctrines and their supplements -- 2.2.2. The Principle of Descriptibility and the Principle of Prescriptibility -- (I) Linguistic form, semiotic form, scientific form -- (II) Paraphrastic, descriptive, and metalinguistic articulation -- (III) The salvage function of axiomatic principles -- 2.2.3. Determinacy and indeterminacy of sense -- (I) Frege and Wittgenstein again -- (II) Wittgenstein II: Vagueness and indeterminacy -- (III) Prescriptibility and non-determined meaning -- (IV) Phenomenological indeterminacy and transpositive indeterminacy -- (V) Back to presentification and normative semiotics -- 2.3. The method of semiotics -- 2.3.1. Hypothetico-deduction, induction, and abduction -- (I) The inadequacy of inductivism and deductivism -- (II) Observation and conceptualization -- (III) Against scientism -- (IV) Against empiricism -- (V) Against objectivism -- (VI) Yet abduction -- 2.3.2. Metalanguage, description, paraphrase -- (I) The typology of transpositions -- (II) Four supplementary distinctions -- (III) The essence of the semiotic art -- (IV) Stipulation and interpretation -- 2.3.3. Depth and generativity -- (I) Depth and connection -- (II) Breadth and depth -- (III) Depth and identity -- (IV) Parasynonymy, equivalence, and back to interpretative description -- 3. THE HOMOLOGATION OF SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS -- 3.1. The pragmatist mark -- (I) ''Some definite human purpose " -- (II) Humanitas and universitas -- 3.2. The pragmatic attitude -- 3.2.1. Types of pragmatics -- (I) Co-text as a context -- (II) Existential context -- (III) Situational context -- (IV) Actional context -- (V) Psychological context -- 3.2.2. The common characteristics.

(I) Context-boundedness of discursive meaning -- (II) Discourse-bound rationality -- (III) Strategies o f understanding -- 3.2.3. A diachrony of 'pragmatics' -- (I) Morris'shift again -- (II) In defense of a maximalist conception of pragmatics -- 3.3. The pragmatic turn of semiotics -- 3.3.1. Subjectivity -- (I) The bracketing and the renaissance of subjectivity -- (II) The encatalyzed subject -- 3.3.2. Rationality -- (I) The subject's competence -- (II) Inferential rationality -- 3.3.3. Intentionality -- Valuation and tensitivity -- 3.3.4. Modality -- (I) Mode, modality, mood, and modalization -- (II) Integrating the manifestations of the modalizing competence -- 3.3.5. Deixis -- (I) Space, time, and actor -- (II) I, You, He, and We -- 4. CONCLUSION: DISCIPLINARY ISOTOPY, INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALOGY, AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY HOMOLOGATION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES.