A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, proceedings papers, collection articles and semiotic research materials. Search across the full database; results are shown with pagination.
The Logos of the Bios 2
- Dependent title
- Bio-Communication
View details
Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
Status: Available
The origins of meaning
- Dependent title
- Vol. 1
View details
Other title information: Language in the Light of Evolution
Annotation: Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language
Identifier: 9780199207855
Status: Available
Universitas Tartuensis
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Annotation: History of University of Tartu and the Tartu city
Identifier: 9789985405222
Status: Available
Varietas Et Concordia
- Dependent title
- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
View details
Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
Status: Available
Women and Gift Economy
View details
Other title information: a radically different worldview is possible
Annotation: Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics, this book points to ways to re-create the connections, which have been severed, between the gift economy, women, and the economies of Indigenous peoples, and to bring forward the gift paradigm as an approach to liberate us from the worldview of the market that is destroying life on the planet. Shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another, better, world possible.
Identifier: 9780973670974
Status: Available
Zoosemiotics
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
Status: Available
Äänen extreme
View details
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: Miten atomi? Milliasta on avaruuden mussikki? Mita sikio kuulee? Minakalaista musiikikia tekevat robotit ja mita ovat musibotit? Aanen eXtreme on uraaurtava esitys aanimaailman ihmeista. Se luo katsauksen aanien tuottamisen historiaan, kokooa yhteen viimeisinta tietoa aanituutkimuksen, aanitaiteen ja digitaalisen musiikin ulottuvuuksista seka kartoittaa aanimaailmojen reuna-alueita tietessa ja taitessa. Teoksen hahmottelemassa aaniversumissa perinteiset kasitykset musiikista menettavat merkityksena ja lukja sinkoutuu ulottuvuuksiin, joissa korvaa ei saastella.
Identifier: 9524717131
Status: Available
Beethoven 3
- Dependent title
- Beethoven und die barockzeit; Beethoven: inspirationen, kontext, resonanz; Beethoven zwischen nord un sued
View details
Other title information: Studien und Interpretationen
Annotation: a compilation of three event proceedings: Internationale Musikwissenschaftliche Symposien - Krakow 2003, Warszawa 2004 and 2005 in Rahmen des Ludwig van Beethoven Osterfestivals Konferenzbericht
Identifier: 8387182621
Status: Available
Épiphanies de la présence
- Dependent title
- Essais semio-esthetiques
View details
Annotation: La chamo sémantique de "présence" s'organise autour du sens d'origine: est présent ce que est là, en vivo, hic et nunc, dans une constellation deictique, saisissable par ostension. Ainsi la présence est-elle observable, sensible, pir la vue essentiellement mais également pour l'ouïe et les sens intimes, l'odeur le goût et le toucher. La présence se dit aussi bien d'une personne que d'un fragment du monde, object état de fait, événement. Mais une présence divine, mystique out spirituelle n'est pas observable: elle est réelle quoique non matérielle. D'autre part la reconnaissance ou le saisissement d'une "présence" est une affaire hautement affective: les présences sont pathémisées et jamais les corrélats d'états purement cognitifs. Notre parsours consistera à l'existence sémiotique dans sa définiton orthodoxe, cheminement ponctué par des philosophèmes que Kant, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty et Lyotard ont exemplairement dédités. Notre partipris, facilement reconnaissible, met la présence intrisèquement dans un rapport modalisé avec le sensible, avec la couleur, avec le son, la saveur, avec l'occasion de la touche. Les essais sémio-esthétiques constituant ce livre voudraient témoigner d'un immense respect pour les épiphanies de la présence.
Identifier: 2842873866
Status: Available
Finland-Italy
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Other title information: a few comparisons
Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
Status: Available
Il Musicista Filosofo e le Passioni
- Dependent title
- Linguaggio e retorica dei suoni nel Seicento europeo
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Annotation: Individando nel pensiero musicale del Seicento archetipi correnti della comunicazione passionale attraverso i suoni, il volume ricompone le fila di un dibattito ideale sull'identita del segno musicale che lo misurava con quello linguistico o con la creaziobne poetica, non senza riportarlo al codice espressivo degli animali o al canto degli uccelli.
Identifier: 8820731991
Status: Available
La Musique et Les Signes
View details
Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale
Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.
Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.
Identifier: 2296004091
Status: Available
Muotokuvia
View details
Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita
Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.
Identifier: 9525431142
Status: Available
Music and the Arts
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
Status: Available
Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
View details
Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
Status: Available
The Logos of the Bios 1
- Dependent title
- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
View details
Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
Status: Available
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
Status: Available
Zbigniew Bujarski
View details
Other title information: Twórczość i osobowość
Annotation: The presented book is mainly devoted to the work, primarily musical, but also painting, of Zbignew Bujarski. Although the author's main interest is the work of art: music and painting, the case of the composer-painter is considered to be important, to a greater extent than usual, the problem of the artist's personality. Thus, creativity remains in a constant relationship to personality.
Identifier: 8387182648
Status: Available
A translation with (apparently) no originals
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 473-476
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.10
Art Now
- Dependent title
- 81 Artists at the Rise of the New Millenium
- Edition
- 2nd edition
View details
Annotation: Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years
Identifier: 3822840939
Status: Available
Augustine and Poinsot
View details
Other title information: The protosemiotic development
Notes: A prepublication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: Explores the concept of the sign before the formal recognisiton of semiotics, focusing on Augustine and John Poinsot
Identifier: 954896466X
Status: Available
Basics of Semiotics
- Edition
- 4 edition
View details
Parallel title: Parallel title: Semiootika alused
Annotation: Deely's objective is to distil common elements of semiosis from the whole continuum of animate reality (from the plant world to human beings) in order to set up a tagonomy of notions, principles and procedures for understanding the uniqueness of human semiosis.
Identifier: 9949110866
Status: Available
Crossing over with the Angel
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 273-295
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.02
De la întuneric la lumină
View details
Other title information: semiotica iesirii din păcatul originar
Annotation: To outline a semiotics of the original sin of falling into the temptation of lying, disobedience and betrayal, a sin whose signs still disturb the life of the human being, is the primary goal of this book. To come out of the darkness of error, to enter the light of the meaning found through the image and likeness of the Primordial Truth, is defined as an aspiration following a trial given with joy to all who are open to wisdom and love.
Identifier: 9737300009
Status: Available
Defining the semiotic animal
View details
Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
Status: Available
Feste dei campanacci a Tricarico e San Mauro Forte
View details
Parallel title: Parallel title: Santi, animali e suoni
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: A Tricarico e San Mauro Forte, in occasione della festa di S. Antonio Abate (17 gennaio), gioro di inizio del Carnevale, le strade vengono invase da gruppi di scampanatori mascherati. In questo volume viene presentata l'eccezionale documentazione sonora e fotografica di questi due eventi, realizzata da Steven Feld e Stefano Vaja nel corso di una ricerca coodinata da Nicola Scaldaferri. Alle fotografie e alle registrazioni si sono aggiunti i contributi di Febo Guizzi, Francesco Marano e Fernando Mirizzi.
Status: Available
Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 477-480
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.11
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 481-485
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.12
From globality to partiality: Semiotic practices of resistance to the discourse of war
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 317-342
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.04
Graphic design now
View details
Annotation: The book shows examples of current trends in graphic design, covering content from branding and packaging to web design
Identifier: 382284778X
Status: Available
Hints and guesses: Legal modes of semio-logical reasoning
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 239-272
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.01
Krzysztof Penderecki – Music in the Intertextual Era
View details
Other title information: markedness, correlation, and interpretation
Annotation: Materials of International Symposium Krzysztof Penderecki`s Music for the 70th anniversary of his birthday. A Symposium - organized by Academy Music of Kraków, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Scinces - was held in December 2003.
Identifier: 8387182591
Status: Available
Mimikri Kui Kommunikatsiooni-Semiotiline Fenomen
View details
Notes: The title in English - Mimicry as a communication semiotic phenomenon
Annotation: Timo Maran's PhD Dissertation, studying the phenomenon of mimicry in from a biosemiotic standpoint.
Identifier: 9949110912
Status: Available
National signs: Estonian identity in performance
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 369-378
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.06
On the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 205-229
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.09
Perceptographic code in visual culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 137-158
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.05
Percorsi della semiotica
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Annotation: La semiotica, da una parte considerata nei suoi orientamentri configurazioni e possibilità future, dall'atra queale prospettiva per affrontare le quiestioni fondamentali del rapporto tra sefni, comportamenti e volori ein cui concretamente sussiste il soggetto individuale nell'attuale contesto della communicazione. Soggetto, segno, corpo; conoscenza, libertà, responsabilità; dialogo e significazione; ideaologia e riporducione sociale; ospitalità e differenza culturale; technologie e comunicazione; globalizazione e migrazione; interpretazione e traduzione; semiotica e sintomatologia sociale.
Identifier: 8875810087
Status: Available
Polifonia arbëreshe della Basilicata
- Dependent title
- concerto all'abbazia di Royaumont
View details
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: Grazie al supporte della Presidenza del Consiglio Regionale della Basilicata, viene publicata que la registratione integrale del concerto conclusivo dell'atelier, corredata da transcrizioni e analisi musicali e accompagnata da materiali fotografici e documentari sulle due comunità arbëshe lucane che ancora oggi mantengono tracce significative della loro origine.
Status: Available
Redefining national identity by playing with classics
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 379-404
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.07
Semiosphere and a dual ecology: Paradoxes of communication
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 175-189
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.07
Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 159-173
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.06
Semiotics of Light
View details
Other title information: An integrative approach to human archetypal roots
Annotation: Inside the pages of this book we have holographically integrated the human world genesis by "WORLD-LIGHT". It is the generative sign by which the colors were spread throughout the world, it is the sign of the creative "image and alikeness" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love both his / her fellow beings, cosmos and God. "LIGHT OF LIGHT", the metaphysics of physics...
Identifier: 9738518059
Status: Available
Song and significance
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation
Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.
Identifier: 9042016876
Status: Available
Spatial semiosis and time
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 297-315
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.03
Staging national identities in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
- Pages
- 425-472
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.09
The Fibonacci sequence and the nature of mathematical discovery: A semiotic perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 53-72
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.03
The problem of the autocatalytic origin of culture in Juri Lotman’s cultural philosophy
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 191-204
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.08
The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 27-52
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.02
The semiotic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 7-25
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.01
The semiotics of sexuality: The choice becomes the association of habits becomes the desire becomes the need
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
- Pages
- 73-136
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.04