Semiotic modeling
a pragmaticist's guide
pp. 951-980
in: International handbook of semiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2015Abstract
Principles of semiotic modeling are presented in such a way that readers are led to understand (1) what semiotic models are and are not (they represent semiosis, the action of signs and the fields that signs create and within which they are enmeshed), (2) what such semiotic models do (they both make the world and help us interact with it, that is, they have ontological and epistemological force), and (3) what readers have to do to make semiotic models themselves (readers are provided with lists of the components or elements of semiotic models as well as with models—models of models—for how to organize said components).