Contrary to some propositions of Mikhail Bakhtin (or N. V. Volochinov) concerning the production of language and of literary discourse, it is proposed a critical application of the peircean Semiotics to the analysis of the production of signs on the level of the representation of conscience. The purpose in doing so is to consider the sign in its whole breadth, not reduced to the mere domain of the "symbolic", and to make clearer the place and role of the several ideological forms within the "praxis".
Semiotics; ideology; social production of signs; perceptive judgement; dicent sinsign