文化标出性理论将传统的文化二元对立分解为"正项-中项-异项"的三元关系,以此描述文化的动态变化。这一三元关系与皮尔斯的三分范畴观相对应,并且,中项作为区分正项与异项的边界,具有符号域中边界的多语性。这证明了文化标出性理论是对话主义本体的:中项和正项、异项之间存在"实质性的对话关系"。这种对话关系范式体现了文化标出性理论的多元性与先进性。
In the theory of cultural markedness, binary opposition is broken and the dynamic relations among oppositions are described by a "positivemiddle item-negative" model, which is compatible with the Peircean semiotic trichotomy. Moreover, the "middle item" in this model, the boundary distinguishing the positive from the negative, is as multilingual as the boundaries of and within the semiospherc. It is argued that the theory of" cultural markedness is one of ontological dialogism, that is, there are substantial dialogic relations between the positive and negative, and such a dialogic paradigm can thus be regarded as a paradigm for contemporary semiotic theories.