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transsemiotic

transsemiotic adjective: having an influence that does not depend on specific signs or signifiers.

Adjective

transsemiotic (not comparable)

  1. Having an influence that does not depend on specific signs or signifiers.
    • If, in other words, the achievements of nonaesthetic discourses could be conceived of in terms of a reason detached from language, they would in fact be resistant to aesthetic negativity: as transsemiotic, they would escape aesthetic negativity, since the latter starts with the understanding of...1999, Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, →ISBN
    • The conceptual integration is constituted through the transsemiotic integration of iconic, indexical and symbolic signs to complex symbolic media offers that defy to be classified solely as icons, indices or symbols, but rather establish an emergent semiotic model that encompasses all three aspects...2007, Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, Olga Fischer, Insistent Images, →ISBN, page 342

Origin of transsemiotic

From trans- + semiotic.

Questions about transsemiotic

What does transsemiotic mean?
Transsemiotic means having an influence that does not depend on specific signs or signifiers.
What part of speech is transsemiotic?
Transsemiotic is an adjective.

Words near transsemiotic in the dictionary

  1. transsectional
  2. transsections
  3. transsectoral
  4. transsegmental
  5. transsellar
  6. transsemiotic
  7. transsensual
  8. transseptal
  9. transseptally
  10. transseries
  11. transsex

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