?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Language+and+the+origin+of+semiosis&rft.creator=Allott%2C+Robin&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.description=Language+is+the+type+of+semiosis+which+has+been+most+closely+examined+and+which+has+served+as+a+model+for+considering+other+forms+of+semiosis.+Semiotics+has+been+based%2C+certainly+in+the+case+of+language%2C+very+much+on+the+proposition+of+Saussure+that+the+sign+is+arbitrary+-+a+questionable+idea+(Holdcroft+1991)+-+and+that+the+sign+is+conventional+or+social.+If+this+fundamental+idea+of+semiotics%2C+and+linguistics%2C+is+discarded%2C+what+does+this+do+for+semiotics%2C+the+'science'+of+signs+%3F+This+paper+seeks+to+trace+out+the+implications+for+semiotics+of+a+very+different+account+from+Saussure's+of+the+origin%2C+development+and+functioning+of+language%2C+leaving+it+open+whether+one+should+conclude%2C+in+the+light+of+this%2C+that+language+does+not+constitute+a+paradigm+or+model+for+a+general+science+of+semiotics+(and+is+not+a+typical+or+useful+example+of+a+semiotic+system)+or+that+language+should+be+treated+as+the+paradigm+but+a+totally+changed+paradigm%2C+so+that+the+new+view+of+language+will+require+a+restructuring+of+semiotics+and+lead+to+a+much+more+biological+and+indeed+neurological+approach+to+the+science+of+signs.+&rft.publisher=Mouton+de+Gruyter&rft.contributor=N%C3%B6th%2C+Winfried&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3113%2F1%2Fsemiosis.htm&rft.identifier=++Allott%2C+Robin++(1994)+Language+and+the+origin+of+semiosis.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3113%2F