Introduction

Norma Presmeg

Luis Radford

Wolff-Michael Roth

Gert Kadunz

pp. 1-15

in: Norma Presmeg, Luis Radford, Wolff-Michael Roth, Gert Kadunz (eds), Signs of signification, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This introductory chapter presents an overview of the role of semiotic issues in the teaching and learning of mathematics, as these issues are characterized and elaborated in the chapters of this monograph. Several threads are represented in the four sections of this book: the evolving sociocultural perspective is addressed in Sects. 1 and 4; Sect. 2 addresses linguistic and textual aspects of signification, and Sect. 3 represents Peircean perspectives that were recognized as important in our field more than two decades ago, which continue to have relevance.

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Peirce Charles Sanders