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The Contemporary Semiotics Movement&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based on the currently available literature of semiotic studies we can roughly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;include all contemporary semiotic achievements of various kinds into two large&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;categories: the &#8216;direct'(or professional) and the &#8216;indirect&#8217; (or unprofessional).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is generally accepted that Pierce, Saussure, Jakobson, Hjelmslev, Sebeok,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Greimas, Eco, Lotman and many others belong to the first category. While in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the second category we can not only include a number of representative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;scholars who do semiotic researches in their respective concrete fields, but&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;also a lot of philosophers and other theoreticians who are engaged in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;inquiring into sign problems in their own theoretical frameworks. Semiotic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;studies are not new things; they have had a long and rich history in the past,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but it is this century which is uniquely characteristic of its unprecedentedly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;wider and deeper interest in the problems of sign, signification and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;communication. And since the early sixties the contemporary semiotic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;movement has developed into a fresh new stage. Only since then semiotic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;studies have begun playing an important role in the academic world.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Furthermore, it is just in this new period its historical origins and traces have&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;been systematically investigated.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In its strict sense Pierce and Saussure are called the &#8216;founders&#8217; of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;contemporary semiotic movement. However in a broad sense many other&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;parallel efforts had been made by the people in the phenomenological,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;analytical and hermeneutical trends during the same period too. For the sake&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of thoroughly grasping the impulse and potential of this great intellectual&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;movement, we should take account of the center and the periphery at the same&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;time. In addition, the new semiotic movement is not merely a result of the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;efforts of those individual pioneers. The cause of the success of semiotics on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the new stage is more complicated than that a semiotic historiography could&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;explain. In fact, without the new academic ambiance of the sixties the new&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;movement of semiotic studies could not be formed. Therefore we may safely say&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;that the current semiotic movement is at least partly due to the general&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;tendency at the human, social and natural sciences in the sixties. Or in other&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;words, beside its brilliant historical origins the current semiotics is also the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;product of our times which strongly emphasizes the interdisciplinary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;perspectives and the theoretical attitude in doing research of any category. Despite the remarkable achievements of semiotics in this century, we still&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;need to deepen and enlarge our understanding of all problems concerned.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus any present effort at a general theory can only be temporary in nature.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Evidently it is easier to be finished if we build up a general framework based on a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;special chosen perspective. It means that we would at the same time leave out&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;many other relevant aspects in our own generalization. But if we try to be&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;more comprehensive and exhaustive we must unavoidably be involved into a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;great number of theoretical nexus and difficulties connected with other&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;disciplines. In other words, any general theory needs more dialogues with the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;related subjects of other fields, particularly those concerning epistemological&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;problems. Understood this way, we can say the study of general theories of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;semiotics must be frequently improved and enriched following the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;development of sciences of mankind. Generally speaking, more useful and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;reliable achievements have been gained in the fields of the applied and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;theoretically applied semiotics, producing a lot of approaches and models of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cultural analysis which have already substantially enhanced the academic level&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of our research.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We Asian semioticians should also keep another warning in our mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Owing to the wide spread of the current semiotic studies all over the world,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;people are inclined to include everything in the world of semiotics, therefore&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bringing about confusions in the proper academic demarcations. In any case&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the interdisciplinary character of semiotics should not lead to the so-called&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;imperialism of semiotics. In most disciplines of human knowledge there are&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;some semiotic aspects, that is one thing; while including all other disciplines&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;into a utopia of the semiotic empire, that is quite another thing. The&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;privilege of the current semiotic drive doesn&#8217;t lie in rashly spreading its&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;territory but in offering reliable methodologies with more explanatory and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;interpretative potential. As we said above, the most remarkable contributions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of semiotics are mainly manifested in its various methodological approaches&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;which can be directly applied into the cultural and intellectual phenomena&nbsp;&nbsp;in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;human societies. In fact its privilege lies in that compared with other&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;methodologies semiotics is evidently less axiologically committed and thus&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;more safely applied in descriptions of cultural facts. We will talk more about&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the problem later.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Modernization of the Investigations of Traditional Chinese Thoughts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fast Asian civilizations, including China, not only have their long histories&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but also show a strong substantial and stylistic unity. After her encounter with&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the modern Western world the Chinese civilization has begun a period of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;modernization touching on all aspects. But from the very beginning of her&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;modernization China has undergone an unavoidable tension between her&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;traditional scholarship and her modern new orientations. In other words,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;while keeping her traditional heritage China must at the same time absorb all&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;useful modern academic achievement of both natural and social sciences.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Generally speaking, modern China has been faced with two parallel and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;internally connected tasks: establishment of a number of modern disciplines and the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;modernization of the investigations of traditional culture and thoughts. In fact&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;without the stress of the former the latter cannot be effectively realized. In&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the fields of social sciences in the narrow sense we have less difficulty in solving our methodological problems, that is because we had no similar&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;studies like political science, economics and sociology even in a traditional&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;term. Therefore the related historical documents can be somewhat&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;satisfactorily dealt with by dint of he modern approaches. But the situation of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;human sciences is quite different. For we indeed have our own traditional&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;types of the humanities which actually have been the very core of the Chinese&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;intellectual life for a span of thousands of years. Just in these fields we have&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;met many serious epistemological and methodological questions when we&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;have to promote their modernization. And also in these fields our&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Western colleagues feel it more difficult to grasp the meanings of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the traditional Chinese intellectual manifestations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beside the above mentioned cultural and scholarly divergencies of various&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;kinds between Chinese and Western histories we Chinese scholars working&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in these fields have also to consider all related Western discussions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;concerning epistemology and methodology in human sciences. That has&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;already become one of our tasks to build up modern disciplines. Following the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;development of comparative studies in various fields many methodological&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;approaches in the Western human sciences have been applied in treating the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;scholarly problems of the traditional Chinese humanities. For the past ten&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;years even some recently fashionable approaches have been tentatively&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;applied by the comparative scholars of various Chinese communities such as&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;analytical philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics and others. On the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;other hand, in the former time Hegelianism and Kantianism of some types&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;had been also appealed to. It is no doubt that those Western methodologies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;would be useful in modernizing our scholarship, but disharmony always&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;exists in the intellect encounter between the Western and the Chinese because&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at their linguistic and epistemological heterogeneity, although the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;terminologies of both sides lack more communicable to each other owing to&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;their being more connected with the traditional ways of discussions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compared with those Western philosophy-oriented methodologies, the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;semiotic approaches are essentially different in their academic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;character and function. As an intellectual tool of description and analysis,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;semiotics can be concerned merely with the exact an detailed reformulations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at the static and dynamic, inner and exterior structures of the object&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;concerned. And the epistemological and axiological implications of the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;applied terms and concepts can be minimalized with a purpose to more&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;objectively disclose the significant and communicative networks of&nbsp;&nbsp;the object.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or metaphorically speaking, semiotics can be taken as, at least at some stages&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of analysis, a microscopic procedure through which the microcosmic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;constructions of cultural phenomena become more clearly known without&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;creating some additional interpretations upon the observed object. Although&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the normal, traditional or common sense aspects of some object must have a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;different appearance from their corresponding microscopic ones, nevertheless the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;former and the latter should be still homologous in their constructions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Therefore if we apply these procedures into the parallel cultural manifestations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;belonging to the different cultural histories, we could probably obtain some&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;commensurable formulations through the same \u201cEsperanto\u201d\u2014semiotics. In&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;other words, by dint of these deconstructive and then reconstructive&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;procedures the formalist and structural redescriptions, the different cultural&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;phenomena can be represented by a &#8216;universal\u201c vocabulary and grammar&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;which will make possible the mutual understanding between the different&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cultures.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However on the other hand, the frequent warning against the simplest&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;notion of neutrality of the semiotic methodology makes us aware that semiotic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;methodologies should have a reasonable limit. It cannot be a futurist panacea.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We should be conscious of its academic frontier.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Therefore for any research project concerning a total topic we&#8217;d better&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;combine several related approaches to solve our problems on the several&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dimensions. In this effort semiotic analysis of some type can be only one step&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in the whole process of our project. Keeping these epistemological and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;methodological limitations in mind we could more freely apply semiotics in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;our cultural investigations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. An Intellectual Bridge Between the Western and the Chinese Mentalities&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The process of modernization of the investigations of Chinese cultures and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;thoughts and that of enhancement of mutual understanding between the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Western and the Chinese cultures are the same one. The possible&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;contributions of semiotic approaches to cultural communications are&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;numerous. Here we can only enumerate some examples. The first important&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;task of the present semiotic studies of China is the reflections on the Chinese&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;language itself. As we know dearly that Chinese language has quite different&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;morphological and semantic structures from those of the Western&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;languages. Regarding the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;natural signifier,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for example, differently from&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the binary parallelism in the phonetical and alphabetical lexical systems in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Western languages, the Chinese written units are largely separate from their&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;corresponding phonetical units. This unique phenomenon considerably&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;increases the functioning of the written system in Chinese language which&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;can somewhat independently be applied in signification and communication.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Secondly, because of its pictographic nature the Chinese character can keep&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;more independently its innate meanings from the contextual determinations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;These characteristics of Chinese linguistic constructions lead to a special&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Chinese semantics which is determinative of the character of Chinese cultural&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;manifestations. Another example is about the traditional rules of construction&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of&#8217; new words based on the old words. These special ways of constructing&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;new words have made Chinese characters contain in the individual written&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;unit the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;pictographic,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;phonetical and morphological elements at once. The&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;result is that semantical structures of Chinese characters and character-combinations become very complicated, making this language rich with&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;amazing connotative potential and associative possibilities. On the other hand,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;also because of this structural uniqueness of Chinese characters, the abstract&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;semes and the concrete semes are variably mixed in the individual units.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Consequently the Chinese linguistic traits strongly influence the traditional&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ways of imagination and reasoning of the Chinese mentality. Based on the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;above explanations of Chinese language we can point out that some traditional&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Chinese philosophical concepts like \u201ctao\u201d, \u201cjen\u201d (kindness), \u201cyi\u201d (justice) and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;many others shouldn&#8217;t be taken as some well-defined notions which could be&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;universally applied into various contexts. In fact they look more like some&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;pragmatical operators with heterogeneous implications determined by the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;traditional life-form of China.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;China is an empire of signs and symbols, abounding with numberless&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cultural sign systems in her long continuous history. The various cultural&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fields of China are the great sources of sign adventures for our modern&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;people. After the semiotic rearrangement of those sign systems the structures&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and significations of the traditional Chinese cultural life could become more&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;readable and intelligible to both the Chinese and foreign people. In&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;this sense semiotics can become a convenient bridge of mutual understanding&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;between the East and the West.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* The paper was read at the round table \u201cPossibilities of Eastern Asia\u201d, the Fourth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Congress of International Association of Semiotic Studies, Perpignan, March 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and published in the Proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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