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A Wittgensteinian critique of the encoding-decoding model of communication
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 49-72
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-203
An entropic process
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 199-206
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-212
Baudrillard and signs
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Other title information: Signification Ablaze
Annotation: This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.
Identifier: 0415112567
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Binding theory meets game theory
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 187-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-211
Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.73
Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 73-88
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-204
Contents/Sommaire
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 3-4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-201
Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
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Other title information: The European Tradition
Annotation: While being concerned with the theory and forms of early narrative, the present collection of essays presents a history of narrative rather than poetics of narrative. Rather than offering to write a coherent narrative about the historical development of narrative before " the rise of the novel", the volume presents stages in the development towards that elusive and unstable form of narrative, giving the reader what in another context has been referred to as an "exemplary history" (Reed 1981) of narrative.
Identifier: 3110138832
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Criticizing Saussure
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 181-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-210
Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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Evolution, atavism, and plain reasoning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 207-218
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-213
Gödel's metaphor
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 5-48
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-202
Gödel’s metaphor
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.5
Jokes, narrative, and pragmatics
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 229-237
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-215
Le pouvoir comme passion
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Notes: Together with a debate between Algirdas J. Greimas and Paul Ricœur that happened in 23.05.1989.
Annotation: Nous savons déchiffrer un propos que répresente de la passion mais savons-nous reconnaître un texte que manifeste de la passion sans la transcrite? La recherche sémiotique était parvenue à un point où il lui était absilumnet nécessaire de pouvoir observer cette inscription directe du vécu, du sensible dans la trame, d'un discours donné. L'expérience la plus pure consitait à partir d'un texte émotionnellement plat, dans son écriture, et cependant captateur, pour démontrer ce qu le travaillait en sous-main,nune qualité de présence qui pertubait le texte et le troublait en profondeur, alors qu'elle était insignifiée au niveau proprement linguistique: Le pouvouir comme passion est la première expérience de mise en évidence de phénomènes discursifs inarticuláres. We know how to decipher a statement that represents passion, but do we know how to recognize a text that manifests passion without transcribing it? Semiotic research had reached a point where it was absolutely necessary to be able to observe this direct inscription of the lived, of the sensitive in the framework of a given discourse. The purest experience consisted of starting from an emotionally flat text, in its writing, and yet captivating, to demonstrate what was working on it behind the scenes, a quality of presence that disturbed the text and troubled it deeply, while it was insignificant at the strictly linguistic level: Power as passion is the first experience of highlighting inarticulate discursive phenomena. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2130465412
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Lusting for the natural sign
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 219-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-214
Musical meaning in Beethoven
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Annotation: Offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with an analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, this book examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at various levels of structure.
Identifier: 0253327423
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Origins of Semiosis
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Other title information: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture
Annotation: The all-comprehensive scope set by the topic of Origins of Semiosis necessarily encompasses a great thematic diversity. The disciplinary horizon of the contributors to this volume is also highly diverse: it extends from anthropology to zoology and from linguistics to visual aesthetics. Unity in this diversity may be provided by the transdisciplinary framework of semiotics which guides the authors' explorations in the evolution of semiosis, even though the framework of this volume is by no means one of a unifying school of specific semiotic theory.
Identifier: 3110141965
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
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Annotation: Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets which have gone into his work.
Identifier: 0520087836
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Signs of Life in the USA
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- Readings On Popular Culture For Writers
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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.
Identifier: 031209020X
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.u
Symptom, sign, and wound: Medical semiotics and photographic representations of Hiroshima
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.89
Symptom, sign, and wound: Medical semiotics and photographic representations of Hiroshima
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 89-108
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-205
The analytic telos of semiotic
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 163-180
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-209
The Language of Vision
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Other title information: Meditations on Myth and Metaphor
Annotation: Jamake Highwater,the best-selling author of Myth and Sexuality and the Primal Mind, continues his voyage into the realms of myth, art and contemporary culture exploring the way society views its art and artists and the way our art and artists gaze back at us. Organized around the twenty-two cards of the Tarot Major Arcana, this book presents a dazzling range of controversial subjects, including the puritan division of art into hight and low and the direct influence of "popular" forms in contemporary artists, the image of the homosexual as outlow, iconography as destiny, imagination as political powe, the reinvetion of the past and thriumph of the dream life.
Identifier: 0802133460
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The Making of Avant-Garde
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Other title information: Tel Quel
Annotation: The present work will examine the constitution of Tel Quel's multipositionality (Boltanski 1973: 3-26), or funtion as a geometric locus, as the social creation of a symbolic good that combined all signs of intellectual radicality characteristic of the period. My aim is to analyze Tel Quel as a relatively heterogenous and changing object by exploring in a specific context its constitution, ascension, and decline as an intellectual avant-garde.
Identifier: 3110139529
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The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 109-138
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-206
The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.109
The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
Identifier: 3110141337
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The use of the motif of the portrayed beloved in the novels of Michel Tournier
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 139-156
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.139
The use of the motif of the portrayed beloved in the novels of Michel Tournier
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 139-156
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-207
Abstract deixis
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.5
Adorno und Derrida
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Other title information: Oder Wo Liegt Das Ende Der Moderne?
Annotation: Der erste tell der Arbeit untersucht Derridas Dissemination und Adornos Asthetische Theorie in bezug auf deren angaben zur Asthetik. Im zweiten teil der arbeit geht es dann um die Andwendungen dieser Theorien, wobei Adornos Essays uber Stefan George und Derridas Text zur Lyrik Paul Celans, Schibboleth, diakritisch uberpruft werden.
Identifier: 0820420255
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Announcement
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.180
Arbitrariness, iconicity, and conceptuality
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.3-4.185
Argumentation theory and the distance to the data
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.287
Commemorative essay. Stefan Żółkiewski: 9 December 1911 – 4 January 1991
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.201
Contents/Sommaire Volume 95 (1993)
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.403
Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.63
Entrapped by words: Semiotic studies of Thomas Hardy’s novels
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.261
Landscape
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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives
Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested
Identifier: 0854963731
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Les enjeux de la sémiotique
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Other title information: Introducion a la semiotique generale
Annotation: Le languge veut être ingnoré. C'est sa destination naturelle d'être un moyen et non une fin - et ce n'est qu'au prix d'une violente conversion que la recherche peur être dirigée vers ce que est le moyen même de la connaissance. Cette conversion que fut le fait des linguistes ne devait pas mettre fin aux dérobade du langage. Elle conduisit à transporter au sein mêeme de l'objet de sicence-angage de même distance sacrée, cette fois à l'égard des phénomènes du sens. Leur immédiateté, leur naturelle évidence étaient le plus sûr rempart de mystifications dont pouvait s'entourer le langage.
Identifier: 2130448593
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Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 1
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.241
Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 3: Poetical arts and metalanguage
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.3-4.253
Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 4: Context, cotext, and metatext
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.75
Literature, strategies, and metalanguage, part 2: Grammar and metalanguage
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.55
Niels Bohr’s views concerning language
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.5
Novel science; or, How contemporary social science is not well and why literature and semeiotic provide a cure
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33
On determining the functions of language
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.3-4.201