ABSTRACT
Linguistics.—References to semiotics in the cognition research are frequent, but they are generally oblique. We know that Charles Morris and Rudolf Carnap divided semiotics into syntax, semantics, and pragmatics (→PRAGMATICS, SEMANTICS, SYNTAX). Noam Chomsky and many other linguists took up this tripartite division, although their debates rarely refer to the semiotics that overarches the three parts. Yet, semiotics is the very foundation of what is known as the symbolic paradigm in cognitive research (→COGNITIVISM, SYMBOL). Moreover, with the recent upsurge of topics like multimodality and multimedia, semiotics has begun to attract more and more interest.
