{
 "name": "TOS Reception Map v1.0",
 "date": "2026-08-25",
 "method": "Constituency and citation map of Charls Pearson's Theory of Operational Semiotics; every node and edge carries a verification field; reported items are typed as such and are work-queue entries, not findings.",
 "partisan_typology": {
  "P1": "direct continuator",
  "P2": "foundational collaborators",
  "P3": "institutional custodians",
  "P4": "bibliographic/pedagogical adopters",
  "P5": "Pearson himself (recursive self-elaboration)"
 },
 "nodes": [
  {
   "id": "pearson",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Charls Pearson (1932-2021)",
   "class": "P5",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)",
   "source": "SSA obituary (Hatten), semioticsocietyofamerica.org",
   "notes": "First Ph.D. in semiotics granted by an American university (Georgia Tech, 1977). SSA founding member, Executive Committee; founder of SIG/ES, SIG/SE, SIG/STAR; ASIS member and founder of its SIG for Foundations of Information Science; applications sought in language, logic, music, law; 'rich if idiosyncratic' development of the Semiotic Paradigm with USST and TOS."
  },
  {
   "id": "tos-1998",
   "type": "work",
   "label": "The Theory of Operational Semiotics (Semiotics 1998, PDC, pp. 140-155, DOI 10.5840/cpsem199816)",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)",
   "source": "pdcnet.org/cpsem/content/cpsem_1998_0140_0155; Columbia TOC"
  },
  {
   "id": "handbook-2015",
   "type": "work",
   "label": "The Semiotic Paradigm View of Theoretical Semiotics (Trifonas ed., International Handbook of Semiotics, Springer, pp. 135-180, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9404-6_5)",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)",
   "source": "link.springer.com chapter page; Springer TOC; WorldCat",
   "notes": "Mature restatement: USST static / TOS dynamic; operator functions; paradigm-completeness claim; recruits successors. 1998 is NOT the terminal statement."
  },
  {
   "id": "beyond-peirce-2008",
   "type": "work",
   "label": "Beyond Peirce: The New Science of Semiotics and the Semiotics of Law (2008; jurisology)",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "philpapers.org/rec/PEABPT"
  },
  {
   "id": "usst",
   "type": "theory",
   "label": "Universal Sign Structure Theory (USST; USST-2000 adopted by SSA Committee on Empirical Standards as standard static macro theory)",
   "verification": "verified via Pearson's own published abstract (2026-08-25)"
  },
  {
   "id": "campbell",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Cary Campbell",
   "class": "P1",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "ResearchGate 2019 Peirce Section intro; CSS interview DOI 10.1515/css-2020-0018; NASS XII program",
   "notes": "2019 CSS Peirce section 'Celebrating Charls Pearson'; 2020 preservation interview; 2021 USST application to Peircean perceptual meaning, presented in memoriam; extension toward learning theory. USST uptake, not clearly TOS uptake."
  },
  {
   "id": "hatten",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Robert S. Hatten",
   "class": "P2",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)",
   "source": "SSA obituary (authored by Hatten)",
   "notes": "Collaborated with Pearson on a pair of articles on musical analogues of linguistic aspect; memorialist; sympathetic colleague, not a TOS disciple."
  },
  {
   "id": "slamecka",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Vladimir Slamecka",
   "class": "P2",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "SSA Semiotic Scene TOC; ERIC ED107229",
   "notes": "Georgia Tech co-lineage: A Theory of Sign Structure (1977); Informatics as a Semiotic Discipline (1982); NSF-supported semiotic foundations of information science. Pre-TOS soil."
  },
  {
   "id": "day",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Sean Day",
   "class": "P2",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "philpapers.org/rec/DAYAEP",
   "notes": "2007 experimental program using synesthesia to investigate semantic sign structure — empirical-program uptake, not TOS adoption."
  },
  {
   "id": "ssa",
   "type": "institution",
   "label": "Semiotic Society of America",
   "class": "P3",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)",
   "source": "SSA obituary"
  },
  {
   "id": "wats",
   "type": "institution",
   "label": "World Association for Theoretical Semiotics (WATS/IASS)",
   "class": "P3",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "iass-ais.org 2012 WATS symposium report",
   "notes": "Pearson president; ~30 members incl. Sonesson, Brier, Fernandez, McCurdy, Du Shi-hong. Constituency, not doctrine."
  },
  {
   "id": "css-china",
   "type": "institution",
   "label": "Chinese Semiotic Studies / Chinese semiotics network",
   "class": "P3",
   "verification": "partially verified: China role verified via SSA obituary (peoples' ambassador; edited Chinese Journal of Semiotics; lectured widely; DIRECTED GRADUATE THESES); CSS Peirce-section editorship and advisory listings reported",
   "notes": "Strongest institutional afterlife outside SSA; probable undercounted thesis lineage — the priority dig."
  },
  {
   "id": "brazgovskaya",
   "type": "person",
   "label": "Elena Brazgovskaya (V labirintakh semiotiki, 2018)",
   "class": "P4",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification",
   "source": "dokumen.pub"
  },
  {
   "id": "zone-music",
   "type": "application_zone",
   "label": "Music (tense/aspect analogues; USST+TOS applied to nonlinguistic sign systems)",
   "verification": "collaboration verified via obituary; the named work reported"
  },
  {
   "id": "zone-law",
   "type": "application_zone",
   "label": "Law (Beyond Peirce; jurisology)",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "id": "zone-perception",
   "type": "application_zone",
   "label": "Perception and education (Campbell-Pearson 2021 USST line)",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "id": "zone-synesthesia",
   "type": "application_zone",
   "label": "Experimental semiotics / synesthesia (Day & Pearson 2007)",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "id": "zone-infosci",
   "type": "application_zone",
   "label": "Information science (Georgia Tech 1970s; ASIS SIG/FIS)",
   "verification": "ASIS SIG/FIS founding verified via obituary; NSF program reported"
  }
 ],
 "edges": [
  {
   "from": "campbell",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "continuator",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "from": "hatten",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "collaborator",
   "zone": "zone-music",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)"
  },
  {
   "from": "slamecka",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "foundational-collaborator",
   "zone": "zone-infosci",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "from": "day",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "collaborator",
   "zone": "zone-synesthesia",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "from": "ssa",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "institutional-home",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)"
  },
  {
   "from": "wats",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "institutional-constituency",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "from": "css-china",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "institutional-afterlife",
   "verification": "partially verified"
  },
  {
   "from": "beyond-peirce-2008",
   "to": "tos-1998",
   "type": "citation (self)",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  },
  {
   "from": "handbook-2015",
   "to": "tos-1998",
   "type": "restatement (self)",
   "verification": "verified-in-session (2026-08-25)"
  },
  {
   "from": "brazgovskaya",
   "to": "pearson",
   "type": "bibliographic-adoption",
   "verification": "reported (external research pass, 2026-08-25); pending verification"
  }
 ],
 "bibliometric_note": "SciSpace reports two citations to the 1998 TOS paper, both Pearson's own later works — REPORTED and explicitly non-ground-truth; the pattern (development of TOS as recursive self-elaboration 1998 → 2008 law → 2015 Handbook) is the finding, not the number.",
 "negative_finding": "No identified evidence of Pearsonian TOS as a recognized framework in operational research, organizational semiotics, AI/ML, semiotic management, or generic signs-as-actions literature — exactly the five neighborhoods the audited 2026-08-25 composition merged into its umbrella entity. The merger has no basis even in TOS's own reception.",
 "next": [
  "Chinese thesis-lineage dig (CSS, CNKI, directed theses)",
  "verification pass on every reported node",
  "citation extraction from the 2015 chapter's own bibliography (the Pearson corpus map)",
  "Peirce direct — the examination the whole line points back to"
 ]
}