The dialectics of indexical semiosis: scaling up and out from the “actual” to the “virtual”
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Conventional indexicality is semiotically effective when regimented by its meta-indexical (or “metapragmatic”) interpretant, a conceptual scheme presumed upon by participants in communication that determines the categories of possibility for a relevant “here-and-now” of indexically signaled co-presence, just as, conversely, such an interpretant is ...
