Quantitative Semiotic Analysis

This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance. European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an autonomous dimension of human existence, whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative analytical and reflexive analysis. Today, researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal the limitations of such an homogeneous practice. In particular, two families of quantitative research strategies can be identified. On the one hand, researchers wish to naturalize meaning, by making semiotic results interact with those coming from Neurophysiological and psychological sciences. On the other hand, statistical and computational tools are adopted to work on linguistic and multimedia corpora. The book acts to put the two approaches into dialogue.

List of contents

Beyond Immanence.- Mathematical and Experimental Research.- Within Immanence.- Instrumented Analysis of Texts and Corpora.

Summary

This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance. European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an autonomous dimension of human existence, whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative analytical and reflexive analysis. Today, researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal the limitations of such an homogeneous practice. In particular, two families of quantitative research strategies can be identified. On the one hand, researchers wish to naturalize meaning, by making semiotic results interact with those coming from Neurophysiological and psychological sciences. On the other hand, statistical and computational tools are adopted to work on linguistic and multimedia corpora. The book acts to put the two approaches into dialogue.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dari Compagno (Editor), Dario Compagno (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319871172
• ISBN: 978-3-31-987117-2
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Illustrations: IX, 189 p. 46 illus., 9 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis; Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Data Mining, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Social Sciences, Physics, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Mathematical physics, Complex analysis, complex variables, Language and languages—Philosophy, Expert systems / knowledge-based systems, Computational Linguistics, Graph Theory, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics