The Semiotics of Edges

Abstract

To speak of a semiotics of edges means accepting the existence
of a difference, in cognitive efficacy, between a semiotic field
and its edges. By a semiotic field we understand a group of
contextually situated phenomena whose ontological existence
and perceptibility come from the group of utterances and
prevailing significations in that concrete society. Edges of a
semiotic field (edge1) are the ones marked by operations
through which other utterances and possible significations
would be constructed. This would continue displacing the
semiotic field, in whose displacement another edge (edge2)
would continue to delineate itself starting from the utterances
and significations that will no longer be possible.