@article{Bluehdorn2017, author = {Hardarik Bl{\"u}hdorn}, title = {Bild und Wirklichkeit}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Semiotik}, volume = {20}, number = {3-4}, publisher = {Stauffenburg}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {3-86057-940-1}, issn = {0170-6241}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-64133}, pages = {305 -- 315}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article proposes to replace current semiotic folk theories by a more complex conception of the role signs play in human societies. It distinguishes between the world and the reality of human beings, describing the perception of the world as a production of images that are projected outward and thereby create reality. While perception takes the world as its object, behavior takes it as a project. A considerable part of the behavior of organisms consists in the production of signs which represent perceptions (as in a photograph), behaviors (as in film), or signs (as in writing, which imitates spoken language). On one hand, signs have the function of making perceptions, behaviors, and signs in themselves communicable; on the other, they serve to anticipate perceptions, behaviors, and signs which are not yet real. This second type of signs (schemata) takes reality as a project in exactly the same way in which ordinary behavior takes the world as its project. The article ends with a discussion of the various types of schematic signs used by human beings to control their perceptual, behavioral, and sign spaces, and suggests a systematic improvement of our semiotic folk theories in order to facilitate orientation in the reality created by ourselves.}, language = {de} }