Dinda L. Gorlée

E-mail: gorlee@xs4all.nl

Fields of specialization

Dinda L. Gorlée is an applied linguist and semiotician who brings together the semiotic discussion of translation in semiotranslation and transduction. She investigates the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roman Jakobson’s intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation, cryptography and artificial languages, vocal translation.of musical texts (songs, opera and church hymns), and other forms of semiotic translation.

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Recent publications

Books

  • Di Leo, Jeffrey R., and Dinda L. Gorlée, eds. 2026. Late Peirce : The Life and Thought of Charles S. Peirce from 1900-1914. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003567615

Including co-authors:

  • Nathan Houser: The Telos of Peirce’s Late Thought.
  • Vincent M. Colapietro: A Mind on Fire: The Late Peirce.
  • James Jakób Liszka: The Late Peirce’s Turn to the Normative Sciences.
  • Cornelis de Waal: Peirce’s Semiotic Groundings of Pragmatism: A look at 1967 Manuscript R318.
  • Jeffrey R. Di Leo: Peirce’s Late Lexicography: Baldwin’s Dictionary (1900-1901).
  • Elize Bisanz: Pragmaticism as a Doctrine of Applied Sciences.
  • Dinda L. Gorlée: Towards Peirce’s Symbolic Logic: Transforming Experimental Language into Algebraic Signs.
  • Susan Petrilli: The Correspondence between Peirce and Welby, Two (In)actual Philosophers.
  • Joao Queiroz and Pedro Ata: The Semiotic Morphology of Problem-Solving: A Framework Based on Peirce’s Ten Classes of Signs.
  • Jaime Nubiola: Understanding Peirce’s “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God”.
  • Donna E. West: Musement as the Platform for Instinctual Abductions: Logical interpretants as Progenitors of Phenomenological Thirdness.
  • Lucia Santaella: Peirce’s Answers to the Anthropocene.
  • Wittgenstein & Semotics. Leiden and Boston: Brill (2025). https://www.brill.com/display/title/69690

    Including co-authors:

    • Dinda L. Gorlée: Wittgenstein’s Labyrinth of Semiosic Paths.
    • Jeffrey R. Di Leo: The Semiotics of Philosophical Critique: Wittgenstein, Sraffa, and Saussure.
    • Horst Ruthrof: Mending Wittgenstein via Peirce: On the Aboutness of Language-Games.
    • Paulo Oliviera: Moreno’s Sign-Theory after Wittgenstein.
    • Susan Petrilli/Augusto Ponzio: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, with Rossi-Landi and Beyond. 
    • Jaime Nubiola: Thirty Years of Scholarship on the Relations Between Wittgenstein and Peirce, 1992–2022.
    • Cassiano Terra Rodrigues: Common-Sense In between Wittgenstein and Peirce.

    Articles

    • Paraphrase or Parasite? The Semiotic Stories of Translation in Chinese Semiotic Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1-46. DOI: 10.1515/css-2020-00001

    • Broken and Unbroken Symbols [Obituary of George Steiner]. American Book Review (2020) 42(1): 35-36. https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/467

    • Linguïculture: Thomas A. Sebeok as a revolutionary ethnographer in Chinese Semiotic Studies (2021) 17(4): 525-550. DOI: 10.1515/css-2021-2034

    • Sign, Semiology, Structuralism in Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism, Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua, eds. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2022: 256-264

    • Hidden Signs? Postcritique to Solomon Marcus’ Final Article. Studii si Cercetari Linguistice(Academia Romana, Bucharest) 1(LXXIV): 91-107 (2023).

    • Vision and Revision of Semiotranslation in Dialogues with Peeter Torop. Festschrift in Honor of Peeter Torop’s 75th Birthday, Maarja Ojamaa, Elin Sütiste, Katalin Kroó, eds. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2025: 238-254.

    Honors and awards

    • 2016 Mouton d’Or Award Semiotica of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS)

     

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