Monthly Archives: August 2017

In his essay “Shifters and Verbal Categories,” Roman Jakobson describes the complexity of “indexical symbols” – linguistic signs that, as symbols, represent their objects by convention and, as indices do, have existential relations with their objects, at the same time (following Peirce’s classification). Jakobson writes: “If we observe that even linguistic scientists had difficulties inContinue reading “Visual Quoting II”