Where can meaning come from? Multimodal semiotics meets ontology | John Bateman
In this talk I offer an overview of some of the current theoretical accounts of meaning, and of different kinds of meaning, offered by the perspective of multimodal semiotics. This draws on the philosophical [...] for structural iconicity as a mechanism for constructing interpretations, that is, for assigning 'meanings' to phenomena. Crucial for such endeavors is the notion of 'heterogeneous ontologies', which I also [...] brought together as a set of open research directions by which computational approaches to capturing meaning may be developed further. Die Ringvorlesung im Sommersemester 2021 wird ausschließlich als Online-Seminar