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Annotation: This book was initiated by a graduate course of Elin Sütiste about semiotics of Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), given in the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. The contributions include articles by the doctoral students as well as co-lectures, visiting scholars and colleagues. These seminars affirmed that Jakobson was truly an ambitious, forward-thinking scholar who exerted himself to establish semiotics as a discipline. Though Jakobson identified himself as a philologist, he played a pivotal role in the development and institutionalization of semiotics. Jakobson’s ability to grasp the potential of new ideas and to inspire others was remarkable. Juri Lotman has commented that “Wherever his fate of a mid-20th-century man took him, everywhere Jakobson attracted a group of scientists that soon grew into a scientific centre of global importance”.

Identifier: 9789949036301

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Other title information: Towards a Solipsistic Paradigm of Semiotics

Notes: One of the copies of this book was given to the library by Ludmila Lackova

Annotation: This publication traces the human capacity for sign use from its linguistic and cultural context. Such scholarship suggests the foundation of a discursive paradigm for semiotics stuck in mundane phenomenology, associated inter alia with the contributions of Leo Zawadovski and Ernst Cassirer drawing their inspiration from Karl Buhler.

Identifier: 9788323230823

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Annotation: Bergson discusses the questions of philosophic truth in a way that allows an interpretation in terms of contemporary semiotics and hermeneutics. In his famous "Philosophical intuition" he defines this kind of truth as "something simple, infinitely simple, so extraordinarily simple that the philosopher has never succeded in saying it". This dialectic between intuition and its 'saying' is examined as the hermeneutics of understanding and interpretation. At the same time, this study attempts to open new insights in Bergson's philosophy, and especially in his notion of Intellectual Effort. Kristian Bankov, in his essay, considers this concept not only central to Bergson's philosophy, but also a key to the sign-nature of our whole being and existence in the world.

Identifier: 9519865403

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Other title information: language as praxis in Lacan and Kristeva

Notes: MA thesis

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Other title information: its structure and use

Annotation: A textbook covering all of the core concepts of linguistics, icluding phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as pragmatics and other fields covering communication and language in use. The book comes with examples covering different languages, and many excercises and resources for further self-study.

Identifier: 0155078275

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Annotation: Le cours professé par Ferdinand de Saussure et publié par ses éleves s'est révélé se fécond qu'il constitue aujourd'hui encore la base des études linguistiques modernes, pour lesquelles il a eu une importance incalculable. Il a eu en particulier le mérite de définir pour la permiere fois, et de facon magistrale, un certain nombre de concepts-clés: la distinction entre langue et parole, la notion de langue comme systeme de signes, etc.

Identifier: 2228500704

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Other title information: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

Annotation: Fredric Jameson’s survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.

Identifier: 9780691013169

Status: Available