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Abstract
Semiotics can study not only the ways in which logical concepts are signified, but also the means of expressing various infralogical meanings including schemas of perception, recognition, or action. These studies form a special field beyond logocentric or linguocentric semiotics. They may inherit some of the achievements of aesthetics and psychology, but cannot be reduced to them and should form their own semiotic concepts capable of describing such infralogical semantics. This semiotics of infralogical meanings considers, in particular, various levels of shifted comprehension, when a felt object evokes not only thoughts, but also feelings of something else – shifted perceptions of pictures, shifted synesthetic images, etc. Its subject includes also specific semiotic systems – codes of different psycho-semiotic types, regulating the means used for communication and interpretation of infralogical meanings at various levels of psyche. Their description provides new insight into the study of art and an understanding of non-verbal thinking of painters, architects and other artists.
Key words: infralogical meanings, shifted comprehension, spatial codes, psycho-semiotic types