<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this article is to offer a reading of the poetic experience through the scope of the semiotics and pragmatism of Chares S. Peirce. Such a reading through semiotics and pragmatism unveils deeper levels of the process of interpretation involving abduction, an inference through which new meanings implied in the semantic tensions arise. Methodologically, the article begins with Roman Jakobson’s realisation that only a broader semiotical context, which breaches the boundaries of the dyadic components of significant and signified scope of structuralism, enables the access to deeper levels of poetic events. The article’s author then discusses the limitations of the dyadic relations of structuralism and, as a broader processual framework to assess poeticity, sets out to discuss the poetic experience from the perspective of pragmatism and its all-encompassing logic of abduction.</p></abstract>

The aim of this article is to offer a reading of the poetic experience through the scope of the semiotics and pragmatism of Chares S. Peirce. Such a reading through semiotics and pragmatism unveils deeper levels of the process of interpretation involving abduction, an inference through which new meanings implied in the semantic tensions arise. Methodologically, the article begins with Roman Jakobson’s realisation that only a broader semiotical context, which breaches the boundaries of the dyadic components of significant and signified scope of structuralism, enables the access to deeper levels of poetic events. The article’s author then discusses the limitations of the dyadic relations of structuralism and, as a broader processual framework to assess poeticity, sets out to discuss the poetic experience from the perspective of pragmatism and its all-encompassing logic of abduction.

Overcoming Dyadic Boundaries: Reading Poetic Experience after the Semiotics and Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce

Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

Department of Cultural History and Theory, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft

Linguistic Frontiers

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The aim of this article is to offer a reading of the poetic experience through the scope of the semiotics and pragmatism of Chares S. Peirce. Such a reading...

Overcoming Dyadic Boundaries: Reading Poetic Experience after the Semiotics and Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce

Published Online: Apr 24, 2019

Page range: 1 - 13

Received: Apr 17, 2018

Accepted: Aug 23, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2018-0004

Keywords
semiotics, methodeutic, poetic function, dyadic structure, poeticity, logic of abduction, pragmatic reading

© 2018 Tiago da Costa e Silva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Overcoming Dyadic Boundaries: Reading Poetic Experience after the Semiotics and Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce

Published Online: Apr 24, 2019

Page range: 1 - 13

Received: Apr 17, 2018

Accepted: Aug 23, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2018-0004

Keywordssemiotics, methodeutic, poetic function, dyadic structure, poeticity, logic of abduction, pragmatic reading

© 2018 Tiago da Costa e Silva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
semiotics, methodeutic, poetic function, dyadic structure, poeticity, logic of abduction, pragmatic reading