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Figure13.11.
Thetaxonomicdomainrepresentedbytheconceptualterm[Culturalobject]
As Figure 13.11 shows, the ASW meta-lexicon distinguishes between two main
taxonomic domains: the first is organized around the conceptual term [Primary
symbolic object] and the second around the term [Secondary symbolic object]. We
borrowed the distinction between the primary and secondary symbolic worlds
(adapting it to our specific requirement) from J. Lotman [LOT 72] (also see
[TOR 99]), the eminent semiotician of cultures, in order to be able to reserve a
particular space for cultural manifestations which, in one way or another,
presuppose and (re-)use language
lato sensu
(including natural language) to their
own specific ends.
Thus, as Figure 13.12 shows, the taxonomic domain which depends on the term
[Primary symbolic object] is broken down, for now, into four more specialized
taxonomic domains, each represented by the basic conceptual terms
[Language object], [Discourse object], [Text object] and [Writing object].
Figure13.12.
Thetaxonomicdomainrepresentedbytheconceptual
term[Primarysymbolicobject]
