Carol Fleisher Feldman

Plot, Plight, and Dramatism: Interpretation at Three Ages.

There is a good deal of interest today in cultural psychology and its central forms of thought, which are interpretive or meaning making rather than computational or algorithmic. At the same time, the

The ‘old’ pragmatics and the ‘new’ Afterthoughts on a revolution

Abstract Peirces theory of signs is often cited by modern students of the pragmatics of language but, because of various historical muddles, his theory itself is rarely used to inform current research. Peirces theory, in keeping with the modern temper, is a cognitive one, but it is known to modern scholars principally through its behaviorist interpreter, Charles Morris. Morris, moreover, is usually attributed with a version of Peirce that he rejected. These confusions have had the effect of leaving Peirces theory little known by modern pragmatists of language. But Peirce and modern pragmatists share many essential beliefs, and these are discussed in the present paper. Peirces theory could be used more than it is to aid in the interpretation of current empirical work.