Accounting, Information semiosis

George Mickhail

No 2000-5, Working Papers from Laboratoire Orléanais de Gestion - université d'Orléans

Abstract: Information is relative to its contemplator. A contemplator does not exist in a vacuum but a magical world of their own disposition. Their magical world is realised through their faculty of mind that makes sense of their own existence. Their sense of existence is atypical realisation. Thus, there is no objective reality that can be realised by others but rather distinctive inter subjective interpretations of inherent realisations. This process of inter-subjective inquiry occurs in a communication continuum. In such a continuum, language or systems of signs are used by interpreters to acquire, represent and manipulate information. Our concern with a communication continuum are the problems of signification which include: reference, inference and choice in the social discourse of accountancy. In this paper, we ponder an philosophical conviction that is based upon the way people interpret and use signs -semiotics- in contemplating such a continuum of signs. The aim of which is two folds: (a) can semiotics provide critical theory-postmodernism with the means of explicit and critical reflection on the barriers to perfect communication which is a step in the right direction of human emancipation, and (b) to explore the potential of semiotics for intelligent accountancy based applications.

Date: 2000
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/log/Doc-Rech/Textes-PDF/2000-5.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.univ-orleans.fr/log/Doc-Rech/Textes-PDF/2000-5.pdf [308 Permanent Redirect]--> https://www.univ-orleans.fr/log/Doc-Rech/Textes-PDF/2000-5.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:log:wpaper:2000-5

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Laboratoire Orléanais de Gestion - université d'Orléans Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Philippe Paquet ().