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Semiotics: Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity

Semiotics: Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity

Semiotics: Interpretants, inference, and intersubjectivity

12.1 Introduction1

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was an American philosopher, mathematician and logician. To sociolinguists, he is perhaps best known for his theory of semiotics, with its focus on logic and nature, and the ways this contrasted ...

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