Open AccessSemiotic Consequences
Author(s) -
Jonathan Culler
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
studies in 20th and 21st century literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-4415
pISSN - 1555-7839
DOI - 10.4148/2334-4415.1624
Subject(s) - semiotics , character (mathematics) , intersection (aeronautics) , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , geography , mathematics , cartography , geometry
This paper outlines the semiotic perspectives of Saussure and Peirce and the points at which these quite different theories intersect. It considers the implications of these points of intersection for literary studies and uses the example of Oedipus Rex to illustrate the semiotic character of acts and facts