Abstract
This article deals with semiotic modeling in writing. The process of modeling is involved in the creation of new scripts and alphabets. The narrative describes the so called ABC-principle in action. Since the ABC code is also a text, the letters have meaningful collocations and the letter names have meaningful associations. The sequence of letters in an ABC is a meaningful syntagm within a ritual text. We shall attempt to prove that these parts of an ABC are meaningful micro-texts that constitute a model of the world as conceived in Indo-European culture. Together with rituals, alphabets have contributed to the formation of concepts of the physical world and cultural identities.
Funding statement: Funding: This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Scientific Foundation, Project #14-28-00130.
About the author
Sergey G. Proskurin (b. 1963) is a professor at Novosibirsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University. His research interests include Indo-European semiotics and semiotics of law. His publications include “The role of matrices in preserving non-genetic data” (2010); and “To the question of a topical network of language and culture” (2012).
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