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ERKKI KILPINEN Although one cannot insist that the name of the American philosopher, George Herbert Mead (1863 1931), is literally unknown among semioticians, it is a fact that he has not received all the attention and recognition that is his due in this field. By `semiotics' I mean here the general theory of semiotic processes, an approach which could be called, paraphrasing Charles Peirce, `prope-linguistic semiotics'. This means a theory which covers more than the theory of linguistics and/or culture, but does not neglect those problem fields, either. My general impression is that precisely this wide problem field is the right context for Mead's multifarious and wide-ranging theories. As I shall try to show below, Mead has many similarities1 with his compatriot and predecessor, C. S. Peirce, who today is recognized as primus inter pares among the founders of semiotics. However, history has repeated itself in Mead's case also, in that his intellectual reception has been halting, half-hearted, and often from a skewed perspective. With this paper, I strive to make three particular points concerning Mead and his position in the semiotical tradition: (i) that he indeed has not figured prominently enough in this purview; (ii) that his
Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique – de Gruyter
Published: Oct 9, 2002
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