Number 7
Graduate Working Papers

The Bivium Syndrome in the History of Semiotics

Luigi Romeo
University of Colorado

Keywords

  • semiotics

How to Cite

Romeo, L. (1977). The Bivium Syndrome in the History of Semiotics. Colorado Research in Linguistics, 7. https://doi.org/10.33011/cril.7.1.3

Abstract

Recent interest in the history of semiotics has begun to generate some concern for the theoretical framework housing the development of the discipline in relation to thinkers who have been pondering the nature and function of the sign in Western scholarship (e.g., Jakobson 1975; Sebeok 1977:149-188). Among the problems immediately surfacing to the attention of aspiring historian of semiotics, there are three which stand out for their dfficulty of content, boundaries, and methodology.