Reflexionstheoretische Semiotik, Teil 2: Sprachtheorie
Philosophische Grammatik der semiotischen Dimensionen
📕 E-BookThe original text of Johannes Heinrichs’ theory of language — in its first version of 1981. This second volume of the Reflexionstheoretische Semiotik (Reflection-Theoretical Semiotics) unfolds a philosophical grammar of the semiotic dimensions.
Language, according to Heinrichs’ guiding idea, is meta-action: a sign-action that regulates itself, in the same act, through its own meta-signs. From this the volume develops a complete systematics of language along four semiotic dimensions — sigmatics, semantics, pragmatics, syntactics — each in turn played through from all four points of view (the “fourfold fourfoldness”): from the smallest sign carriers via parts of speech and predication to sentence structure, text types and figures of style. In the preface Heinrichs coins here the term Reflexionslogik (logic of reflection), which will carry his entire later work.
Who this volume is for
This is a work for specialists, collectors and Heinrichs philologists — the historical source text, not the most accessible presentation. Those who want to get to know the content of Heinrichs’ theory of language will find it in a modern, more detailed and updated form in his five-volume work on language (Sprache, volumes 1–5) of 2008/9. Remarkably, their content is already contained here in condensed form.
The appeal of this first edition lies in the origin: Heinrichs’ thinking about language in its early form, in the style of German academic philosophy of the early 1980s, written before the age of layout software.
Please note before buying
About this edition: Unlike the other volumes in this series, this is not a facsimile of the original print but a volume newly typeset from the author’s surviving manuscript.
This manuscript has a peculiarity: the page numbers stand within the text instead of in the margin. The numbering is complete and continuous — so one can cite by these page numbers — but the flow of reading is interrupted in places by the embedded figures.
Reflexivity Press · Collected Works vol. 6 · 490 pages · first edition 1981 (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn)
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- Year
- 2025
- Edition
- Johannes Heinrichs Edition
- Series
- Gesammelte Werke (Volume 6)
- Licence
- Copyright
Electronic original edition: This edition is page-identical with the first edition of 1981 (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn). Page numbers and typesetting match the original and can be cited without restriction. Only the front matter, the imprint and the author biography have been renewed for this Reflexivity Press edition.
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