Modality (semiotics)

In <a href="/facts/Semiotics/DuS3kK2g">semiotics</a>, a modality is a particular way in which <a href="/facts/Information/3LdrzXtJ">information</a> is to be <a href="/facts/Encode_(semiotics)/uaaedKlt">encoded</a> for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of <a href="/facts/Sign_(semiotics)/NnPPsndG">sign</a> and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text, or genre. It is more closely associated with the semiotics of <a href="/facts/Charles_Sanders_Peirce/z76dNqhM">Charles Peirce</a> (1839–1914) than <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_de_Saussure/NjS5SPBA">Ferdinand de Saussure</a> (1857–1913) because <a href="/facts/Meaning_(semiotics)/Dahshx2k">meaning</a> is conceived as an effect of a set of signs. In the Peircean model, a reference is made to an object when the sign (or representamen) is interpreted recursively by another sign (which becomes its <a href="/facts/Interpretant/RhAIFPaR">interpretant</a>), a conception of meaning that does in fact imply a classification of sign types.

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Modality (semiotics)