Torkild Thellefsen
Copenhagen University, IVA, Faculty Member
- Evolution, Charles S. Peirce, Pragmatism, Peirce Pragmaticist Semiotics, Peirce, Charles S., J S Bach, and 14 moreSemiotics, Cybersemiotics, Information Studies, Branding, Pragmaticism, Pragmatic Semiotics, Semiotic Anthropology, Habits, Umberto Eco, Peircean Semiotics, Abduction, Charles Sanders Peirce, Peirce, and American Pragmatismedit
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The aim of the article is to present and discuss the concept of semeiotic constructivism, which is a method inspired by pragmaticism. Semeiotic constructivism has nothing to do with social constructivism but is a method that can construct... more
The aim of the article is to present and discuss the concept of semeiotic constructivism, which is a method inspired by pragmaticism. Semeiotic constructivism has nothing to do with social constructivism but is a method that can construct meaning of concepts by implanting a telos in the concept or a certain quality in a artifact in order to develop the object in a certain direction. The article touches on different elements in Charles Peirce`s philosophy, e.g. hyperbolic philosophy and pragmaticism and combines these elements with thoughts about how scientific concepts and brands become meaningful.
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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to present a pragmatic inspired branding method called a value profile, within the theory of cognitive branding. The method is theoretical anchored in Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic theory and can... more
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to present a pragmatic inspired branding method called a value profile, within the theory of cognitive branding. The method is theoretical anchored in Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic theory and can be used to identify the core values of brands and also identify the possible consequences of how these values influence people to purchase products. Moreover, it can be used to analyze the values themselves.
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ABSTRACT How does a brand become meaningful, and how does certain lifestyle values become integrated into a brand so that the brand appears like a trustworthy statement? The paper investigates the ongoing negotiation processes between... more
ABSTRACT How does a brand become meaningful, and how does certain lifestyle values become integrated into a brand so that the brand appears like a trustworthy statement? The paper investigates the ongoing negotiation processes between brand maker and brand users as a key to understand how brands become meaningful. The result of the negotiation processes is the creation of a common consent of meaning, which the brand rests upon. This implies that a brand can only be meaningful if the brand maker and brand users can create this brand habit.
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Abstract Any great new theoretical framework has an epistemological and an ontological aspect to its philosophy as well as an axiological one, and one needs to understand all three aspects in order to grasp the deep aspiration and idea of... more
Abstract Any great new theoretical framework has an epistemological and an ontological aspect to its philosophy as well as an axiological one, and one needs to understand all three aspects in order to grasp the deep aspiration and idea of the theoretical framework. Presently, there is a widespread effort to understand CS Peirce's (1837–1914) pragmaticistic semeiotic, and to develop it by integrating the results of modern science and evolutionary thinking; first, producing a biosemiotics and, second, by integrating it with the progress in ...
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Contributions by: Victoria N. Alexander, Fernando Andacht, Douglas Anderson, Irving Anellis, Marco Annoni, Pedro Atã, Richard Kenneth Atkins, Sara Barrena, Maria de Lourdes Bacha, Yvan Beaulieu, Tyler James Bennett, Mats Bergman, Priscila... more
Contributions by: Victoria N. Alexander, Fernando Andacht, Douglas Anderson, Irving Anellis, Marco Annoni, Pedro Atã, Richard Kenneth Atkins, Sara Barrena, Maria de Lourdes Bacha, Yvan Beaulieu, Tyler James Bennett, Mats Bergman, Priscila Borges, Søren Brier, Daniel J. Brunson, Rosa M. Calcaterra, Daniel Chandler, Phyllis Chiasson, Paul Cobley, Vincent Colapietro, Charles G. Conway, Elizabeth Cooke, Patrick Coppock, Marcel Danesi, Shannon Dea, Terrence Deacon, Rossella Fabbrichesi, Priscila Farias, Iris Smith Fischer, Paul Forster, Anne Freadman, Mathias Girel, Dinda L. Gorlée, Eugene Halton, Diana B. Heney, Risto Hilpinen, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Nathan Houser, Robert Innis, Antony Jappy, Mijung Kang, Tomis Kapitan, Kalevi Kull, Robert Lane, Yunhee Lee, Catherine Legg, James Liszka, Giovanni Maddalena, Robert Marty, Rosa Maria Mayorga, Amy L. McLaughlin, Floyd Merrell, Torjus Midtgarden, Cheryl Misak, Ivan Mladenov, Ludwig Nagl, Douglas Niño, Leon J. Niemoczynski, Jaime Nubiola, Frank Nuessel, Winfried Nöth, David L. O'Hara, Donna Orange, Sami Paavola, Helmut Pape, Kelly Parker, Susan Petrilli, Ahti Pietarinen, Sami Pihlstrøm, Francesco Poggiani, Augusto Ponzio, Joao Queiroz, Michael Raposa, Andrew S. Reynolds, Gary Richmond, Vinicius Romanini, Henrik Rydenfelt, Lucia Santaella, John Shook, Peter Skagestad, Frederik Stjernfelt, Bent Sørensen, Torill Strand, John J. Stuhr, Martin Thellefsen, Torkild Thellefsen, Patricia Turrisi, Ben Udell, Cornelis de Waal, James Wible, Liuhwa Zhang
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It is not possible to organize knowledge using universalistic knowledge theories in accordance with any realistic theory and it is not possible to represent knowledge in a thesaurus structure simply because the thesaurus is too rigid to... more
It is not possible to organize knowledge using universalistic knowledge theories in accordance with any realistic theory and it is not possible to represent knowledge in a thesaurus structure simply because the thesaurus is too rigid to compensate for the conceivable bearings of a concept. Nor does the author believe that knowledge is organized the way a thesaurus is structured. The thesaurus is a tool developed on the basis of nominalistic knowledge theories whereas the Knowledge Profile is developed on the basis of a critical realism that respect the knowledge structure and tries to represent the knowledge structure in accordance with the existing knowledge structures. The focus of the article is to clarify the definition of the semiotic knowledge organization method SKO by drawing a knowledge profile for SKO.
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The paper investigates emotions from a semeiotic perspective. The American Philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) defined the emotion as a legisign, which is a lawsign (cf. Savan 1981). Since the emotion is a general sign, it can be... more
The paper investigates emotions from a semeiotic perspective. The American Philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) defined the emotion as a legisign, which is a lawsign (cf. Savan 1981). Since the emotion is a general sign, it can be valorised; it can be identified, communicated and re-experienced. Based on this semeiotic inspired definition, we investigate community caused and created by emotions or rather the effects upon minds caused by emotions. We believe that any community carries a emotional center - a so called Fundamental sign.
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The focus of this article is on how to make realistic representations of knowledge organizations. We define the knowledge profile as a tool developed within C. S. Peirce’s pragmaticistic maxime. The article points out that in order to... more
The focus of this article is on how to make realistic representations of knowledge organizations. We define the knowledge profile as a tool developed within C. S. Peirce’s pragmaticistic maxime. The article points out that in order to make realistic representations of knowledge organizations, we need a basic understanding of how relations emerge, develop and become related terms. In order to strengthen the theoretical points and to show the usability of the knowledge profile, we unfold it upon the knowledge domain MARKK.
Keywords: Pragmatism, Knowledge profiling, displacement of meaning, semiotics, MARKK
Keywords: Pragmatism, Knowledge profiling, displacement of meaning, semiotics, MARKK
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This article is structured so that it offers the reader some of the basic concepts from CS Peirce's pragmatic semiotics and G. Lakoff's cognitive semantics in order to provide linguistic tools to describe and elucidate the... more
This article is structured so that it offers the reader some of the basic concepts from CS Peirce's pragmatic semiotics and G. Lakoff's cognitive semantics in order to provide linguistic tools to describe and elucidate the complexity of indexing, and hopefully to clarify and improve the foundation of indexing. The article is also a further development and application of Brier's (1996) cybersemiotic approach to library and information science (LIS). It is our hypothesis that Peirce's semiotics offers concepts and methods that make it possible to ...
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According to Charles S. Peirce we have to take responsibility for our scien-tific concepts. Having introduced the scientific world to a concept we have to revise it whenever further investigation alters the meaning of the concept. This... more
According to Charles S. Peirce we have to take responsibility for our scien-tific concepts. Having introduced the scientific world to a concept we have to revise it whenever further investigation alters the meaning of the concept. This article revises the definition of the fundamental ...
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SEED Journal (Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, and Development). Issues, Overview, ...
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