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Neutral LevelIn semiotics the neutral level of a sign is the "trace" left behind, the physical or material creation or remains of esthesic and poietic processes, levels, and analyses of symbolic forms. A part of all signs according to a tripartitional definition, it corresponds to Saussure's "sound-image" (or "signified", thus Pierce's "representamen"). Thus, "a symbolic form...is not some 'intermediary' in a process of 'communication' that transmits the meaning intended by the author to the audience; it is instead the result of a complex process of creation (the poietic process) that has to do with the form as well as the content of the work; it is also the point of departure for a complex process of reception (the esthesic proces that reconstructs a 'message.')" (Nattiez 1990, p.17) Molino and Nattiez's diagram: | olspan=2|Esthesic Process | | Producer" | ---> | Trace | <--- | Receiver | - (ibid.)
An immanent description is an analysis of the neutral level (Nattiez 1990, p.75). Source - Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie gnrale et smiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0691027145.
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