Where can meaning come from? Multimodal semiotics meets ontology | John Bateman
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 foundation [...] mechanisms developed in recent multimodality studies. Peirce placed particular importance on a particular kind of 'iconicity', that of a structural correlation of descriptions across different domains. Current