Semiotics of Action

How are the actions that are conventional and meaningful in various typical activity contexts organized as a semiotic resource system? How do they make typological meaning by paradigmatic contrast? by syntagmatic catenation? How do they make topological meaning by their pacing, intensity, and other dimensions of gradable degree of performance? What principles are shared by the linguistic, depictional, gestural, and actional semiotic resources systems and their typical deployment practices and products?


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