02 January 2010

Editor, Edit Thyself, finally decided to solve a dilemma. One site, called Editor Thyself Edit, concerns itself with questions dealing with semiotics, but from a perspective not common in the discipline of semiotics. Essentially, it does not take the view that the sign is arbitrary or that man is merely homo symbolicus. We feel those assumptions leads one away from precision of analysis, not toward it.

This site, Editor, Edit Thyself, is one in which applications are made from semiotics as it applies to rhetorical analysis and technical writing, and basically the writing craft across disciplines. This is new territory for the authors of Editor, Edit Thyself, since only before meaning, syntax (including how syntax conveys meaning) and pragmatics were dealt with within an socio-political perspective. New, territory, but essentially, a simple approach, using as one point of departure Saussere's sign graph the way one uses the sentence diagram.

As we are waiting for a web savvy friend to become available, we explore possibilities...

Until our Launch Date in April, Blessed Nativity, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year. May you all be granted many prosperous years.