Editing Interpretant

{{Main article|Sign (semiotics)}}
{{Semiotics}}
'''Interpretant''' is a [[subject (philosophy)|subject]] / [[sign (semiotics)|sign]] that refers to the same [[object (philosophy)|object]] as another sign, [[Transitive relation|transitively]].<ref>{{cite journal
| last1      = Mick
| first1     = David Glen
| date       = 1986
| title      = Consumer Research and Semiotics: Exploring the Morphology of Signs, Symbols, and Significance
| url        = https://www.jstor.org/stable/2489226
| journal    = Journal of Consumer Research
| publisher  = Oxford University Press
| volume     = 13
| issue      = 2
| pages      = 196–213
| doi = 10.1086/209060
| jstor      = 2489226
| access-date = 12 May 2021
| quote      =[T]he interpretant is actually another sign referring to the same 'object.' Since any initial meaning can be re-interpreted (and often is), each interpretant is thus a sign leading to another interpretant, and so on ad infinitum. This double nature of the interpretant—as both the interpreted sign and the interpreting sign—confers unlimited regress or extrapolation in semiosis and led Pierce to conclude that man 'is the thought,' in fact, 'a sign himself' (5.314, 6.344). ... the sign [is] the fundamental vehicle connecting objects in the broadest sense and human reactions (interpretants).| url-access= subscription
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==History==
{{Main article|Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce}}
The concept of "interpretant" is part of [[Charles Sanders Peirce]]'s "triadic" theory of the sign. For Peirce, the interpretant is an element that allows taking a ''representamen'' for the sign of an ''object'', and is also the "effect" of the process of ''semeiosis'' or signification.

Peirce delineates three types of interpretants: the immediate, the dynamical, and the final or normal.

==Immediate, Dynamical and Final==
The first of his trichotomies is of the Immediate, Dynamical, and Final interpretant. 

The first was defined by Peirce as "the Quality of the Impression that a sign is fit to produce, not to any actual reaction"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Michael |title=The Logic of Language A Semiotic Study of Speech |date=2022 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |page=26}}</ref> and elsewhere as "the total unanalyzed effect that the Sign is calculated to produce, or naturally might be expected to produce; and I have been accustomed to identify this with the effect the sign first produces or may produce upon a mind, without any reflection upon it."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nguyen |first1=Nam T. |title=Nature's Primal Self Peirce, Jaspers, and Corrington |date=2011 |publisher=Lexington Books |page=33}}</ref> An Immediate interpretant can take a variety of forms "it may be a quality of feeling, more or less vague, or an idea of an effort or experience awaked by the air of previous experience or it may be the idea of a form or anything of a general type".<ref>{{cite book |title=Peirce and Biosemiotics A Guess at the Riddle of Life |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |page=59}}</ref>

The second, the Dynamical interpretant. is the "direct effect actually produced by a Sign upon an Interpreter of it".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freadman |first1=Anne |title=The Machinery of Talk Charles Peirce and the Sign Hypothesis |date=2004 |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=162}}</ref> The last, the Final, is "the effect the Sign would produce upon any mind upon which circumstances should permit it to work out its full effect" and not "the way in which any mind does act but in the way in
which every mind would act" if "the Sign is sufficiently considered".<ref name=semiotica/>

==Intentional, Effectual, and Communicational==
Peirce offers another trichotomy of interpretants which he explains as follows:

<blockquote>There is the Intentional Interpretant, which is a determination of the mind of the utterer; the Effectual Interpretant, which is a determination of the mind of the interpreter; and the Communicational Interpretant, or say the Cominterpretant, which is a determination of that mind into which the minds of utterer and interpreter have to be fused in order that any communication should take place.<ref name=semiotica>{{cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=Jon Alan |title=Peirce’s evolving interpretants |journal=[[Semiotica]] |date=2022}}</ref></blockquote>

==See also==
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce]]
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography]]
* [[Semiosis]]
* [[Semiotics]]
* [[Sign (semiotics)|Sign]]
* [[Sign relation]]
* [[Triadic relation]]

==References==
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[[Category:Charles Sanders Peirce]]

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