Semiotic Mechanisms and the Dialogicality of the Self: Commentary on Carriere (2013), Minikes (2013), and Wall (2013)

• Autor(a) principal: Bento, Tiago
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/1566
• topic: Dialogical self; Semiotic mechanisms

The semiotically mediated nature of human experience is being increasingly stressed in contemporary psychology. In this paper, the consistency of this axiomatic assumption with the type of communicational constructivism being proposed by dialogical models of selfhood processes is explored. A general semiotic conception if the dialogical self is suggested that characterizes it as a semiotic pre-­‐adaptive system. It is described as a fuzzy control system that equilibrates operating field forces to delimitate a locus for meaning construction in immediate future. The contribution of the semiotic mechanisms proposed by Carriere (2013), Minikes (2013), and Wall (2013) for the operation of this pre-­‐adaptive system is stressed and the nested operation of semiotic processing, sign convergence and semiotic switches within the pre-­‐ adaptive system is elaborated. Other possible ways through which those semiotic mechanisms enable us to specify the dynamically intertwined processes that constitute the dialogical self are also elaborated.