Authors : Abdel Hernández San Juan
DOI : 10.13140/RG.2.2.10634.99527
Volume : 1
Issue : 1
Year : 2018
Page No : 200
The Correlate of the World is a book on language sciences (theoretical linguistics and semiotic theory) that proposes, theorizes, and develops a novel conjunction between a phenomenology of the idea of the world and a theoretical analysis of the question of the correlate as a semiological concept between texts and worlds. It develops new articulations and bridges between language theory, semiotics, and the social sciences of culture. That is, it presents methodological alternatives and possibilities for moving from concepts of semiotics and linguistics to sociology and cultural anthropology, considered from the perspective of cultural theory. At the heart of Charles Sanders Pierce's theory of the sign, the book discusses the concept of the correlate and its relationship to the text/world conjunction in light of representation, ground, and interpretants. It retheorizes the relationships between language and reality, text and world, language and referentiality, language and culture, and analyzes the possibilities of the interpretant at the level of the correlate for the methodological development of research in phenomenological sociology and cultural anthropology. The book offers an in-depth analysis of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism in the linguistic sciences, leading to a retheorization of the relationship between semantics and structure, rethinking symbolism, and a comprehensive analysis of the research methodology of linguistics and semiotics required for the exegesis of cultural texts and of culture understood as text. This book explores new avenues for cultural theory and anthropology under the phenomenological studies of language and signs from a postmodern perspective.