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Recent developments towards cognitive-procedural models of linguistic functions and their integration with pragmatic conditions (cf. Thelin 1985) may, in important respects, be said to have been anticipated by Charles S. Peirce’s theory of signs. Representing in essence a pragmatically based theory of cognition (Fitzgerald 1964), Peirce’s teleological, triadic understanding of semeiosis (Savan 1976; Parret 1983; Shapiro 1983), and more specifically, his concept of INTERPRETANT as a mental activity of interpretive translations mediating between SIGN and OBJECT, expressed indeed an advanced hierarchical-operational view of the systemic relations between expression-form and content-form in language.
The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason. (CP 5.212, 1903)
... thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs. (Wittgenstein 1958:6)
... the structure of time depends on the conceptual framework that is employed in the determination of the events which [...] form the basis of that structure. (Kamp 1979:391)
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Thelin, N.B. (1994). Perception, Conception and Linguistic Reproduction of Events and Time: The Category of Verbal Aspect in the Light of C.S. Peirce’s Theory of Signs. In: Debrock, G., Hulswit, M. (eds) Living Doubt. Synthese Library, vol 243. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8252-0_24
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