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Bruce Arrigo, "Language, Propositional Logic, and Real World Applications: A Comment on Ascription", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique Vol. XI no.31 (1998), 73-77: The Jackson-Touchie debate concerning language, propositional logic, and real world applications raises some interesting questions about ascription. This article offers some explanation on the phenomenon by invoking a psycho-semiotic framework. Three matters are addressed: (1) the operation of linguistic coordinate systems (LCS), (2) the process of refuting particular truth claims as a decisive act of agency, and (3) the formation of liberatory and discursive discourse production while speaking from within an LCS. The analysis offered challenges the several assumptions about the nature of speech production in particular and semiosis in general as they relate to what Jackson and Touchie have addressed thus far. e-mail: barrigo@mail.cspp.edu

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