On Deictics and “Pronominal ” Communication (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

Abstract. For all his profound interest in Secondness and its manifestation in vari-ous kinds of indices, including deictics, Peirce rarely addresses the inter-pronomi-nal relationships. Whilst the American founder of semiotics would designate lan-guage as a whole to Th irdness, only within the larger framework of which deictics can work, the German philosopher Cassirer observes that “what characterizes the very fi rst spatial terms that we fi nd in language is their embracing of a defi nite ‘de-ictic ’ function”. For Cassirer the signifi cance of pronominals, especially the I-Th ou relationship, lies in its impact on the development of spatial concept that lays the foundation of symbolic forms. It may look strange why the “designatives ” of I, Th ou, He, in Peirce’s own terms, so obvious in their categorial and empirical dif-ferentiation, should fail to be reduceable to the triad of Firstness, Secondness, and Th irdness. It is interesting, however, that in his 1906 correspondence w...

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