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Journal Article 2020

Charles Peirce and firstness: The category of origins

Bent Sørensen; Torkild Thellefsen; Amalia Nurma Dewi

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
63-73

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0038

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0038

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Journal Article 2020

Collocational semiosis in the academic discourse of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): The case of AFRICA

Amir H.Y. Salama

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
185-227

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0103

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Book 2020.0

Culture and Communication

edited by Andreas Schönle

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An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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1 edition

Culture Academic Studies Press 9781644693872 Available

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Other title information: Signs in Flux

Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff

Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.

Identifier: 9781644693872

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Journal Article 2020

Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction

Hanna Rautajoki; Jarkko Toikkanen; Pirkko Raudaskoski

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
91-111

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126

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Journal Article 2020

Garroni, the late Peirce, and the issue of creativity

Eduardo Grillo; Giacinto Davide Guagnano

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
165-184

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0128

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Journal Article 2020

Image and word as forms of iconic depiction

Luciano Ponzio

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
75-90

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0112

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Journal Article 2020

In the footsteps of the semiotic school of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and perspectives

Laura Gherlone

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
229-241

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0065

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Journal Article 2020

Peirce, Aristotle, metaphor – and comments to Factor

Bent Sørensen; Torkild Thellefsen; Amalia Nurma Dewi

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
51-61

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0037

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Journal Article 2020

Re charged emblems: Hawthorne and semiotic metamorphics

Anthony Splendora

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
1-26

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0119

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0119

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Journal Article 2020

Semeiotic time

Ru Sabre

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
113-117

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0108

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Journal Article 2020

The spectrum of subjectal forms: Towards an Integral Semiotics

Sebastián Mariano Giorgi

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
27-49

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0022

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Book 2019.0

Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology

Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva

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1 edition

Social Tartu University Press 9789949032150 Available

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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach

Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of ​​miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values ​​– from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values ​​of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of ​​mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of ​​a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.

Identifier: 9789949032150

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Journal Article 2018

About the (semiotic) limits of the human language: Discussing the case of Pirahã

Ekaterina Velmezova

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
392-397

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.12

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.12

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Journal Article 2018

Animal language before Sebeok

Umberto Eco

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
365-377

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09

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Journal Article 2018

Differentiation of language functions during language acquisition based on Roman Jakobson’s communication model

Lauri Linask

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives

Pages
517-537

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.06

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.06

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Journal Article 2018

Eco’s “latratus canis”: A memory of the backstage

Costantino Marmo

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
378-382

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.10

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.10

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Journal Article 2018

Impossibly good looks: A pragma-ontological approach to unearthing the latent rhetorical structure of anti-ageing advertising discourse

George Rossolatos

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
216-254

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02

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Book 2018.0

Passions of Our Time

Julia Kristeva

Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available

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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks

Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”

Identifier: 9780231171441

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Journal Article 2018

Rethinking literary education in the digital age

Alexandra Milyakina

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives

Pages
569-589

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.08

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.08

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Journal Article 2017

Beyond the “Tragedy of Culture”: In-between Epistemology and Communication

Göran Sonesson

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4

Pages
141-180

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 2017

Cassirer on Communicology: The Symbolic Forms of Language, Art, Myth, and Religion in Cultural Semiotics

Richard L. Lanigan

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4

Pages
135-140

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 2017

Cassirer’s Symbolic Forms in Application: New Symbolization of New Thought in the Language of Online Communication

Yun Xia

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4

Pages
427-444

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Book 2017.0

Mimicry and Meaning

Timo Maran

Edition
1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319503158 Available

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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.

Identifier: 9783319503158

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Journal Article 2017

Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages

Geoffrey Beattie; Melissa Marselle; Laura McGuire; Damien Litchfield

In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218

Pages
21-64

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0074

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Book 2017.0

Towards an ecology of mind

edited by Nora Bateson | Monika Witowska-Jaworska

Social Wydawnictwo Naukowe 9788365621252 Available

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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued

Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.

Identifier: 9788365621252

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Journal Article 2016

A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present

Larry Richards

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
42

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

A sociosemiotic approach to the legal dispute over the crime of whoring with an underage girl in China

Xingcan Meng; Bing Wen

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
277-299

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0015

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0015

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Book 2016.0

A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language

Pablo Kirtchuk

Edition
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Linguistics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034322508 Available

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Annotation: this book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not.

Identifier: 9783034322508

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Journal Article 2016

An exploration of the semantic domain of legal language

Pi-Chan Hu; Jian Li

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
187-208

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0001

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0001

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Journal Article 2016

Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices

Youzheng Li

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
365-396

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156

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Book 2016.0

Grand Hotel Abyss

Stuart Jeffries

Philosophy Verso 9781784785697 Available

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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.

Identifier: 9781784785697

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Book 2016.0

La triple chaîne prédicative

Gaëll Guibert | Benoît Sauzay

Edition
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Linguistics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034320979 Available

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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte

Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)

Identifier: 9783034320979

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Book 2016.0

Lietuviški natų leidiniai 1990-2015 m.

Asta Bielinskienė | Živilė Časaitė | Darius Kučinskas

Music Kaunas University of Technology 9786090212349 Available

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Other title information: Bibliografinis sąvadas

Annotation: This publication is a bibliographic compendium of Lithuanian sheet music from 1990 to 2015 compiled in chronological order and presented to readers. The difficult period of restored independence, when sheet music publishing underwent fundamental changes, brought chaos to the field of registration. The ISMN Lithuanian agency began to operate only in 1994, and some publishers even after 1994 did not register their publications with the ISMN agency. As a result, there has been a gap in the registration of publications published aborad, which were registered electronically or in a fragmentary manner. The purpose of this bibliography is to collect and systematise all information about publications of Lithuanian sheet music since 1990, published both in Lithuania and abroad, and to describe them according to international standards. (translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 9786090212349

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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real

Jan M. Broekman

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Social Springer Cham 9783319281742 Available

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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV

Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.

Identifier: 9783319281742

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Journal Article 2016

Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality

Janny HC Leung

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
371-396

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0013

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Journal Article 2016

Showing what “marriage” is: Law’s civilizing sign

Soo Meng Jude Chua

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
249-275

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0008

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Journal Article 2016

Size and shape depictions in the manual modality: A taxonomy of iconic devices in Adamorobe Sign Language

Victoria Nyst

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0049

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Journal Article 2016

The consequences and effects of language transformations in legal discourse

Frank Nuessel

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
125-148

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0003

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Book 2016.0

The problem of the modern and tradition

Elina Krisiina Viljanen

Music [Suomen Semiotiikan Secura] 9789526825779 Available

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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)

Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.

Identifier: 9789526825779

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Journal Article 2016

The rhetoric of love and self-narrativesin the cinema image: A Peircean approach

Yunhee Lee; Jongseok Soh

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
197-211

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0033

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Journal Article 2016

The thematic structure of homepages: An exploratory systemic-functional account

Leong Ping Alvin

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
105-127

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0048

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Journal Article 2016

Toward an embodied account of double-voiced discourse: The critical role of imagery and affect in Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination

Karen A. Krasny

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
177-196

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0159

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0159

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Journal Article 2016

Virtual Logic—Finite Language and the Imagination of Infinity

Louis H. Kauffmann

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

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103

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Heroizability

Ibrahim Taha

General Semiotics De Gruyter 9781501510816 Available

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Other title information: An anthroposemiotic theory of Literary characters

Annotation: It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.

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Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights

Bruce K. Friesen

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Social Springer Dordrecht 9789401795500 Available

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Annotation: This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems across the globe today? How can we account for the significant change in moral values in one place in less than 100 years’ time? Using examples from classical civilizations, the book demonstrates how increasing diversity compromises a moral system’s ability to account for and integrate larger populations into a single social unit. This environmental stress is not relieved until a broader, more abstract moral system is adopted by a social system. This new system provides a sense of belonging and purpose for more people, motivating them to engage in prosocial (or moral) acts and refrain from socially disruptive selfish acts. The current human rights paradigm is the world’s first universal, indigenous moral system. Because moral systems can be expected to continue to evolve, this book points to current boundaries of the human rights paradigm and where the next major moral revolution might emerge. ​

Identifier: 9789401795500

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Sociocultural crossings and borders

edited by Rūta Stanevičiūtė | Rima Povilionienė

Music Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre | International Musicological Society 9786098071290 Available

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Other title information: musical microhistories

Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.

Identifier: 9786098071290

Status: Available

Journal Article 2015

The polyglot self in the semiotic spheres of language and culture

Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik

In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3

Pages
207-225

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.04

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.04

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Book 2014.0

Companion to European Heritage Revivals

Edited by Linde Egberts | Koos Bosma

Culture SpringerOpen 9783319077697 Available

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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.

Identifier: 9783319077697

Status: Available

Book 2014.0

Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics

Zdzisław Wąsik

Edition
1 edition

General Semiotics Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław Publishing / Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu 9788360097243 Available

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Annotation: This book presents a functional view of semiotics considering language as a system of signs. In such a means- and ends-oriented perspective, the signs as meaning-bearers are detached, both in concrete and mental existence modes, from their meanings or objects of reference. Some relevant words on the genesis of the author’s contribution to the development of semiotic thought will also include his indebtedness to his preceptors, teachers, friends and colleagues. Preliminary outlines for their foundation have been developed since the late 197os and 1980s in the Department of General Linguistics at Wrocław. Subsequent work on the following theme continued in the Institute of English Philology at Opole and in the School of English at Poznań, over the last five years, has contributed to its present state.

Identifier: 9788360097243

Status: Available

Journal Article 2014

Semiotic management of communicative situations: New people(s) and old methods

Anti Randviir

In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1

Pages
42-71

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.03

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.03

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