A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Is cultural logic an appropriate concept? A semiotic perspective on the study of culture and logic
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 455-464
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.06
New vocabularies in film semiotics
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Other title information: structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond
Annotation: A lexicon of semiotic concepts, the book defines over 500 critical terms and describes how they have been used, building a semiotics dictionary. It explores linguistically-orientated terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; and the psycho-semiology of the cinema.
Identifier: 0415065941
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On the zoosemiotics of health and disease
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 213-219
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.12
On universalism in connection with the interpretation of magic in the semiotics of Juri Lotman
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 555-576
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.12
Pragmatics and biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 245-258
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.14
Pragmatism and the forms of sense
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Other title information: language, perception, technics
Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.
Identifier: 027102223X
Status: Available
Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
Status: Available
Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology
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Annotation: This book is about biosemiotics - a paradigm for both biological and semiotic thinking - as approached through the work of one of its pioneers, Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Identifier: 9985566327
Status: Available
Semiotics
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Other title information: The basics
Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?
Identifier: 0415265932
Status: Available
Signs in use
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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics
Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug
Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture
Identifier: 0415262038
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The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World
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Annotation: Exploring specific points of relevance to contemporary semiotics found in Jakobson’s work is the aim of this volume, and each of the 13 essays approaches the intersection differently.
Identifier: 085199606X
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Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod’s philosophy of modern biology
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 149-161
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.08
Towards the semiotics of the observer
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 529-553
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.11
Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 337-345
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.21
Transformation of public text in totalitarian system
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Other title information: a socio-semiotic study of Soviet censorship practices in Estonian radio in the 1980s
Annotation: This study analyses the production of Soviet journalistic text. It focuses on editorial-censorship transformation in texts made during the final stage of textual preparation in journalistic institutions of Soviet Estonia at the beginning of the 1980s.
Identifier: 9512920719
Status: Available
Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 315-325
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.19
Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 163-181
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.09
Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 293-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.18
"Matter as effete mind": Peirce's synechistic ideas on the semiotic threshold
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 49-62
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.03
Beyond "universal grammar"
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 367-368
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.22
Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 263-275
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.15
Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 237-262
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.14
Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 293-312
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.17
Biosemiotics and the problem of intrinsic value of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 354-365
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.21
Cognition as expression: On the autopoietic foundations of an aesthetic theory of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 153-168
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.09
Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 63-69
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.04
Ecosemiotics and cybersemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 107-120
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.07
Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 71-81
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.05
Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 219-236
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.13
Frames and framing
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- the margins of music analysis
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Annotation: A study interested in the frames and the margins of musical analysis.
Identifier: 9525431002
Status: Available
Global Semiotics
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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."
Identifier: 025333957X
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Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 9-11
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.00
Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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Metamorfozele lumini
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: biofotonica, stiinta a complexitatii
Annotation: This book is an attempt to create an interdisciplinary perspective to light as a physical and biological henomenon.
Identifier: 9739899765
Status: Available
Methodologies and problems in zoomusicology
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 341-352
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.20
Mimicry: Towards a semiotic understanding of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 325-339
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.19
Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 187-202
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.11
On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 83-106
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
Physiosemiosis in the semiotic spiral: A play of musement
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 27-48
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.02
Protosemiotics and physicosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 13-26
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.01
S/E ≥ 1: A semiotic understanding of bioengineering
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 277-291
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.16
The emergence of signs of living feeling: Reverberations from the first Gatherings in Biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 369-376
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.23
The pursuit of signs
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- Semiotics, literature deconstruction
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: Augmented edition with a new preface
Annotation: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature.
Identifier: 0801487935
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The Routledge Companion To Semiotics and Linguistics
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- 1 edition
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Annotation: This reference combines the complex and closely-related fields of semiotics and linguistics. The book has 10 introductory essays and over 200 A-Z entries which cover key concepts, key individuals and key theories and schools in the field.
Identifier: 0415243130
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Theatre at the crossroads of culture
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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Thinking with animals
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 203-218
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.12
Towards a semiotic definition of trash
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 313-324
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.18
Vital signs: An ecosemiotic perspective on the human ecology of Amazonia
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 121-152
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.08
Wilderness from an ecosemiotic perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 169-186
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.10
Writing and Difference
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Annotation: Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics.
Identifier: 0415255837
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