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The semiotics of character names in the drama
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.3-4.283
The semiotics of the visible in Japanese rock gardens
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.3-4.349
The Subject of Semiotics
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Annotation: Through the writings of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and others, the kindred disciplines of semiotics and structuralism have stirred enormous interest within European and American intellectual circles in recent years. With their focus on the ways in which signs, symbols, and cultural phenomena of all kinds convey meaning, these burgeoning theoretcial fields have had a special impact on the analysis of fil and literature. In this provocative book Kaja Silverman undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
Identifier: 9780195031782
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What is Meaning?
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Other title information: Studies in the Development of Signifcance
Notes: Reprint of the edition London, 1903, with an Introductory essay by Gerrit Mannoury and a Preface by Achim Eschach.
Annotation: In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term significs . One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as the Sense of a word, but only the sense in which it is used the circumstances, state of mind, reference, universe of discourse belonging to it. The Meaning of a word is the intent which it is desired to convey the intention of the user. The Significance is always manifold, and intensifies its sense as well as its meaning, by expressing its importance, its appeal to us, its moment for us, its emotional force, its ideal value, its moral aspect, its universal or at least social range." This facsimile of the 1903 edition of "What is Meaning" is accompanied by an essay on "Significs as a Fundamental Science" by Achim Eschbach, and "A Concise History of Significs" by G. Mannoury.
Identifier: 9027232725
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Palimpsestes
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- la littérature au second degré
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Annotation: Un palimpseste est litéralement, un parchemin dont on a gratté la première inscription pour lui en substituer une autre, mais où cette opération n'a pas irrémédiablement effacé le texte primitif, en sorte qu'on peut y liter l'ancien sous le nouveau, comme par transparence. Cet état de choses montre, au figuré, qu'un texte peut toujours en cacher un autre ,ais qu'il le dissimule rarement tout à fait, et qu'il se prête le plus souvent à ine double lecture où se superposent, au moins un hypertexte et son hypotexte - ainsi, dit-on l'Ulysse de Joyce et l'Odysée d'Homère. J'entends ici par hypertextes toutes les œvres dérivées d'une œvre antérieure, part transformation, comme dans la parodie, ou par imitation, comme dans le pastiche. Mais pastiche et parodie ne sont que les manifestations à la fois les plus visibles et les plus mineures de cette hypertextualité, out littérature au second degré, qui s'écrit en lisant, et dont la place et l'action dans le champ littéraire - et un peu au-delà - sont généralement, et fâcheusement, méconnunes. Jëntreprends ici d'explorer ce territoire. Un texte peut toujours en lire un autre, et ainsi de suite jusqu'à la fin des textes. Celui-ci n'échappe pas à la règle : il l'expose et s'y expose. Lira bien qui lira le dernier. A palimpsest is literally a parchment from which the first inscription has been scratched out to replace it with another, but where this operation has not irremediably erased the original text, so that the old can be read under the new, as if by transparency. This state of affairs shows, figuratively, that a text can always hide another, but that it rarely conceals it completely, and that it most often lends itself to a double reading where at least one hypertext and its hypotext are superimposed - thus, we say, Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey. I mean here by hypertexts all works derived from an earlier work, by transformation, as in parody, or by imitation, as in pastiche. But pastiche and parody are only the most visible and minor manifestations of this hypertextuality, a literature of the second degree, which is written by reading, and whose place and action in the literary field - and a little beyond - are generally, and unfortunately, unknown. I undertake here to explore this territory. One text can always read another, and so on until the end of the texts. This one does not escape the rule: it exposes it and exposes itself to it. He who reads last, will read well. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2020061163
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Color naming by art students and science students: A comparative study
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.303
La théorie du signe à Port-Royal
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.267
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.317
The Dialogic Imagination by M. M. Bakhtin
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
Identifier: 9780292715349
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The relation of logic to semiotics
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.193
The semiotic of modern culture
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.287
Constraints on complexity seen via fused vectors of an n-dimensional semantic space (Sarangani Manobo, Philippines)
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.209
Contents/Sommaire
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.385
Etude des expressions mimiques conventionnelles françaises dans le cadre d’une communication non verbale
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.245
L’espace et les signes
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.193
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.377
Review article
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.347
Some legal definitions and semiotic: Toward a general theory
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.1-2.35
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.3-4.u
“You Know my Method”: A Juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.203
Introduction
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.201
Linguistics and Semiotics: Two Disciplines in Search of a Subject
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.289
Peirce’s Method of Triadic Analysis of Signs
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.251
Semiotic Objectivity
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.261
Signs and Experience: Steps Towards a Semiotic Theory
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.311
L'obvie et l'obtus
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- Essais critiques III
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- 2nd
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Annotation: The symbolic meaning imposes itself on me by a double determination: it is intentional (this is what the author meant) and it is taken from a sort of general, common lexicon of symbols: it is a meaning that goes to meet me. I propose to call this complete sign the obvious meaning. As for the other meaning, the third, the one that comes 'in excess', like a supplement that my intellect cannot quite absorb, at once stubborn and fleeting, smooth and eluding, I propose to call it 'the obtuse meaning.' --Roland Barthes
Identifier: 2020146096
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The Structure of the Artistic Text
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Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.239
Cretan Distichs: ‘The Quartered Shield’ in Cross-Cultural Perspective
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.203
Filled Pauses and Floor-Holding: The Final Test?
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.219
Handwork as Ceremony: The Case of the Handshake
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.189
On Some Theoretical Presuppositions of Semiotics
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.185
Two Anglo-Saxon Sign Systems Compared
In: Semiotica 1974, Issue 3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1974.12.3.227
Recherches sur les systemes signifiants
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Other title information: Symposium de Varsovie 1968
Annotation: A compilation of papers covering different topics through a semiotic approach, including literature, linguistics, psychology and zoosemiotics
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The Prison-House of Language
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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
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Philosophy in a new key
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Other title information: A Study in the symbolism of reason, rite and art
Annotation: The central problem of this interesting book is to ascertain precisely the functions served by myth, ritual, and especially the arts, and to develop an adequate theory of artistic significance. Mrs. Langer's development of her theme within the framework of a general theory of symbolism, in accordance with her conviction that the coming period of creative philosophy will use the distinctions of symbolic analysis as its key concepts is the novel approach of this book.
Identifier: 0674665031
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Russian Formalism
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- History-Doctrine
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- 4 edition
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Annotation: More elaborately and self-consciously than anywhere in the West, Russian criticism has developed three major schools. One of these looks for the essence of literature in its philosophical and religious ideas: writers like Berdjaev, mainly interested in an interpretation of Dostoevskij, see literature as a way of knowing the absolute. A second school is the social: literature is not only a mirror of society but an incitement to social thought and action. In its Marxist version, social criticism has become the official Soviet creed and is thus felt today as peculiarly representative of Russian criticism. But a third school, that of Formalism, is so far much less known and much less accessible in the West. It arose around 1914 and was suppressed around 1930. Russian Formalism keeps the work of art itself in the center of attention: it sharply emphasizes the difference between literature and life, it rejects the usual biographical, psychological, and sociological explanations of literature.
Identifier: 9027904502
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