Distinguishing Construed Orders Of Experience In Pictorial Semiosis

May 28

ChRIS CLÉiRIGhmode and modalities 2 Comments

Thibault’s distinction of ‘body-as-actor’ vs ‘body-as-signifier’ is useful here.

The material order includes the body-as-actor.
The semiotic order includes the meanings realised by the body-as-signifier.
The body-as-signifier participates in the various types of body language.
These include
(1) the sociosemiotic types:
(a) protolinguistic: interactional, regulatory, personal, instrumental
(b) linguistic: redundant with the rhythm or intonation of speech
(c) epilinguistic: textual (eg reference), interpersonal (eg polarity), ideational (eg representation)
(2) manifestations of biosemiosis:
behavioural tokens of sensing: emotive, desiderative, cognitive, perceptive

2 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. eldon
    May 28, 2011 @ 11:05:50

    the usual riposte i’m afraid –
    i think horses are beautiful and foals even more beautiful, so the intertextual insult to parker does not work so well for me

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