Re: fort - da: an appropriation
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/19/99 10:15:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
erespess@inil.com writes:
<< Okay, I'm following you. What if the dog inspires an emotion? What is
that? I don't mean what we call the emotion, (happy, misty-eyed, scared,
etc.) but the feeling itself, before we categorize it?
Elizabeth >>
That's not addressed by semiotics, I'm pretty sure :) Because semiotics is
the study of signs -- and signs are pretty well any form of expression,
anything from language to clothing to icons to the arrangement of huts in a
village. What you're talking about is prior to the existence of a sign...
Jim