PERUSSIA Psicologo
IMAGE-OF The Semiotic Field is a tool for investigating mental representations It concerns the way in which the single elements of my experience, which I encounter in my interaction with the outside world, find their place in my inner universe of signs and meanings A key that goes beyond the stimulus I encounter in the environment, but which puts it in relation with my inner world as a whole Within the The talk presents a series of real examples, drawn from research and consultancy activity, in which the Semiotic Field testifies to its own usefulness. semiotic field FURTHER INFORMATION – REFERENCES Perussia, F. (1985). Immagine-di: Between theory, gestalt and sign. Ikon, Journal of the A. Gemelli Institute, 11, 211-231. Perussia, F. (1986). The Semiotic Field: A Method for Framing the Image-of. Reports from the Institute of Psychology, Medical Faculty, Milan: Università degli Studi, pp.18. Perussia, F. (1988). Semiotic Frame: A method for the experimental analysis of ‘images’. Psychological Reports, 63, 524-526 – https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/pr0.1988.63.2.524
Perussia, F. (2008). The Lexical Semiotic Field: A method for research on mental representations. Journal of Psychology, 2(3), 255-276 – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335465436_Il_Campo_Semiotico_Lessicale_Un_metodo_per_la_ricerca_sulle_rappresentazioni_mentali
Perussia, F., Runne, S. (1997). Connotative dimensions of the exam. In: Perussia, F., edited. Materials of Social and Personality Psychology, Volume 1. Turin: Celid, 193-196. SIGNIFICANCE The Semiotic Field is linked to constructs such as: The complementary nature of meanings and infinite semiosis (De Saussure) The polyphonic nature of consciousness, which is made up of a plurality of parallel systems of cognitive-emotional processing, each with its own paths of representation , elaboration, reaction SEMIOTIC FIELD The Semiotic Field or Semiotic Frame is a relatively simple research and analysis tool, which helps us bring out the connotations that accompany a term, a name, a construct, a sign. The Semiotic Field is also a psychotechnical operating tool (communication, clinic, marketing, etc.) MENTAL GEOGRAPHIES I have been using it for some time in an empirical form I have developed it, in a more systematic form, since the 80s Among the constructs and techniques that inspired me: Mental Maps – Mental Maps Semantic Differential Projective Tests with Word Associations CREATIVELY The Semeiotic Field is an excellent creativity stimulator à Produces material for developments in the clinical, training, personal growth context Activates a creative process by expanding the starting point of the topic to work on FREE ASSOCIATIONS The Semiotic Field can be detected by asking a person, or rather a sample of individuals , to indicate everything that comes to mind starting from a stimulus Automatic archeology of memory, especially emotional: Ribot, Ebbinghaus, Jung SYNONYMS – ANTONYMS To detect the set of synonyms (and/or antonyms) connected to a term Typically: a starting from a large sample of dictionaries, vocabularies, encyclopedic collections, repertoires of synonyms and antonyms, etc. Lexical analysis (Big Five) Forms of content analysis FURTHER ASSOCIATIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS The Semeiotic Field can be developed proceeding by associative chains, which in turn they develop other associative chains Once the most relevant connotative elements of a sign have been identified, we proceed in depth I give the Semiotic Field for each of these elements One can proceed further even much further, along the path of associations of associations, according to an infinite chain IO WE The Semiotic Field is decidedly individual idiosyncratic Gathering a plurality (a sample) of individual Semiotic Fields, a collective (segmented) Semiotic Field can be derived Individual representations (images-of) Collective representations (images-of) QUALITY & QUANTITY The qualitative, empirical, impressionistic dimension of the Semiotic Field is useful in operational practice, especially as a first approach The dimension quantitative, systematic, statistical analysis of the Semiotic Field is useful in segmental analysis, multivariate species INEXORABLY You can use or not the instrument of the Semiotic Field You can take it into account or not But the Semiotic Field exists and intervenes anyway in every act of your life, as well as in groups, interactions, communication, in widespread culture Whether you detect it, or not
Semiotic Field – Semiotic Frame – Technique of research and intervention
