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On the circumstantial relation between meaning and content

In Umberto Eco, Marco Santambrogio & Patrizia Violi (eds.), Meaning and Mental Representations. Indiana University Press. pp. 496--23 (1988)

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The complementarity of a representational and an epistemological function of signs in scientific activity.Michael H. G. Hoffmann & Wolff-Michael Roth - 2007 - Semiotica 2007 (164):101-121.details Signs do not only “represent” something for somebody, as Peirce’s definition goes, but also “mediate” relations between us and our world, including ourselves, as has been elaborated by Vygotsky. We call the first the representational function of a sign and the second the epistemological function since in using signs we make distinctions, specify objects and relations, structure our observations, and organize societal and cognitive activity. The goal of this paper is, on the one hand, to develop a model in which (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
In search of intended meaning: investigating Barwise's equation $C_R(S, c) = P$.Varol Akman - 2003 - Barwise and Situation Semantics, a Workshop Co-Located with CONTEXT 2003 Conference, Stanford, CA.details Here, S is a sentence—or possibly a smaller or larger unit of meaningful expression for a language—that's written by an author and c is the circumstance in which S is used. R is defined as the language conventions holding between an author and a reader (or better yet, his readership). P, probably the most important part of the equation, is the content of S or, the intended meaning of the author. We assume that the communication between an author and a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Rethinking context as a social construct.Varol Akman - 2000 - Journal of Pragmatics 32 (6):743-759.details This paper argues that in addition to the familiar approach using formal contexts, there is now a need in artificial intelligence to study contexts as social constructs. As a successful example of the latter approach, I draw attention to 'interpretation' (in the sense of literary theory), viz. the reconstruction of the intended meaning of a literary text that takes into account the context in which the author assumed the reader would place the text. An important contribution here comes from Wendell (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
From Thing to Sign and “Natural Object”: Toward a Genetic Phenomenology of Graph Interpretation.Domenico Masciotra, G. Michael Bowen & Wolff-Michael Roth - 2002 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 27 (3):327-356.details This study was designed to find out what scientists and science students actually do when they are reading familiar and unfamiliar graphs. This study provides rich details of the subtle changes in the ontologies of scientists and science students as they engage in the reading tasks assigned to them. In the course of the readers’ interpretation work, initially unspecified marks on paper are turned into objects with particular topologies that are said to correspond to specific features in the world. We (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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