International Association for semiotics of space and time, Russia, St. Petersburg, leonid.tchertov@googlemail.com
Place is one of the key categories of spatial semiotics. It can be considered as a part of a semiotized space, included in it along the rules of one or several codes. The place participates in construction of spatial texts, where it enters in grammatical relations with other their units. In such texts, the place can perform various semiotic functions. It can be a sense discriminative index, a single sign, a polysemantic symbol, a whole text or its part. There are also the structural varieties of the place category. Depending on consideration of ordinal and metrical features, this general category can take such forms as a point in a net of spatial relations without any sizes, a more or less extended surrounding of a centre, a bordered topos for objects moving into or out it, as well as a locus taken at relations to other external or internal places. These functional and structural varieties of the place category affect its relations to other categories of spatial semiotics and are regulated by various spatial codes.
place; spatial codes and texts; grammar categories
Download textFor citing: Tchertov L.F. (2023). Place as a category of spatial semiotics. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(53): Spatial semiotics: architecture, place and sign, pp. 7-26. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2023.01.01