How Is Linking (and Thus Learning) Like Unlimited Semiosis?

Abstract

In this final chapter the linking process of two students’ writings are dissected to indicate how the meaning they shared illustrates a process of unlimited semiosis, grounded in the notion of a semiotics sign system. The trajectory dimension of emotion/affect is used as an illustration of how an element of one’s trajectory may become the next cue, and thus guide the trajectory as it continues. Further discussion of trajectories and how they progress is then supported with a brief discussion of dynamic systems. The chapter concludes with a return to the rhizome metaphor and a summary of the grounded theory .

This chapter draws on and expands on research reported in Schuh (2000), Schuh and Rea (2001) and Schuh et al. (2005).