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On the blankness of blank-signs
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 123-139
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0014
On the bottomless lake of firstness: conjectures on the synthetic power of consciousness
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 129-152
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0120
Operationalizing Peirce’s Syllabus in terms of icons and stereotypes
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 265-285
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0152
Peirce’s legacy for contemporary consciousness studies, the emergence of consciousness from qualia, and its evanescence in habits
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 49-103
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0117
Peirce’s vocation for consciousness: an evolutionary account
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 1-10
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0123
Personality and climate change mitigation: a psychological and semiotic exploration of the sustainable choices of optimists
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 237-273
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0056
Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 203-227
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0039
Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 249-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0097
Review of Conspiracy theories as a form of phatic communication
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 409-414
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0007
Semiotic analysis of symbolic logic using tagmemic theory: with implications for analytic philosophy
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 171-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0018
Semiotic hybridization in Persian poetry and Iranian music
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 275-310
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0096
Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 241-247
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0024
Signic knowledge: its niche in semiotics and its various aspects
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 225-242
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0070
Spatial diagrams and geometrical reasoning in the theater
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 177-200
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0052
Splits on Instagram: a case study of young adults’ selfies
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 185-218
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0099
Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 121-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0157
Surviving a natural disaster as a semiotic reformation of the self and worldview
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 353-386
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0130
Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 141-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071
The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 219-235
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0043
The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 101-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0049
The element of surprise in Peirce’s double consciousness paradigm
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 11-47
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0122
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 17-37
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 145-163
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0011
The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 1-27
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0071
Toward a Peircean logic of meditation
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 153-170
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0119
Towards a stratified metafunctional model of animation
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 1-35
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0078
Understanding and translating Confucian philosophy in the <i>Analect</i>s: a sociosemiotic perspective
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 287-306
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0144
Vers une sémiotique sadienne
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 139-158
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0115
Visual affect in films: a semiotic approach
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 99-124
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0081
What do hashtags afford in digital fashion communication? An exploratory study on Gucci-related hashtags on Twitter and Instagram
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 325-351
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0114
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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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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Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt (1999-2019)
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- Reprezentačný zborník
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Other title information: 2 dekady oneho umenia v Nitre
Annotation: In Slovakia, especially outside the capital, unconventional art has never been given the space it deserves. It was and is no different in Nitra, where – although it is home to two universities – progressive, experimental and alternative artistic initiatives still do not bloom like roses... They find themselves in an alienated position, often on the fringes of interest, somehow “they cannot come up with a name” – in which case they are called “that” in the local dialect. Perhaps that is why we have chosen the adjective of not another, but “that” art in the title of this publication, which in many ways deviates from the norm, is significantly different, provocative, and at the very least thought-provoking. The monographic publication Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt – 2 two decades of that art in Nitra aims to map retrospectively, in a chronological manner, the entire two decades of the existence of the international cycles, or rather festivals HERMOVO UCHO V NITRE and POSTMUTART, focused from the end of the 20th century to the present precisely on these artistic initiatives, often moving in a taxonomically indefinable interspace – on the border of intermedial overlaps and innovative fusions of new music, visual art, video art, performance, sound art, happening –, testing their limits and crossing the boundaries of discursive and non-discursive symbolism in the period of late postmodernism.
Identifier: 9788055815237
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Homo Musicus Gino Stefani e atti del 24° Convegno della Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: A collection of essays dedicated to Gino Stefani
Identifier: 9791220071956
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In the footsteps of the semiotic school of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and perspectives
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 229-241
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0065
Mapping Musical Signification
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Annotation: This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.
Identifier: 9783030524951
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Of Essence and Context
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Other title information: Between Music and Philosophy
Annotation: This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer’s and listener’s perceptions.
Identifier: 9783030144708
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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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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Fast Times and Excellent Adventures
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Other title information: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie
Annotation: The book explores the history of the 1980's phenomena of the teen movie genre, showing the behind the scenes of select movies and actors as well as the cultural and social context.
Identifier: 9781472123725
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Impossibly good looks: A pragma-ontological approach to unearthing the latent rhetorical structure of anti-ageing advertising discourse
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 216-254
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02
Passions of Our Time
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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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Rudo Dička
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Other title information: nepokoj vzdoru
Annotation: After more than four years since the death of Rudolf Dička, this monograph is being published which is not an exhaustive review of the Catalog raisonne type, but rather begins with a publication, trying to save what is left after this powerful artist from Kyushu.
Identifier: 9788089172450
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Text dynamics: Renewing challenges for semiotics of literature
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 143-167
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.07
The epistemic role of intermedial visual artworks: An analysis of the photobooks Palast der Republik and Domesticidades
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 64-89
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.03
Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 630-639
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.11
Analyzing the fictional worlds of Pixar with an eye on digital humanities
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
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- 91-117
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0081
Asmuo ir idėjos
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Annotation: The book is intended to comprehensively present the most important and most important part of the theoretical legacy of the famous semiotician, mythologist, linguist, culture and society critic and essayist Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917-1992), without which he would not be what he was, is and will remain in the history of humanitarian and social thinking. – his semiotics research project and extensions of this project. The principles of semiotics and its areas of study are critically reviewed, and the philosophical and personal existential dimension and meaning of Greimas' thinking are revealed. His closest students and collaborators, as well as later followers in France, Italy, Lithuania and elsewhere, describe the most important varieties and branches of semiotics after Greimas, their current state and future prospects.
Identifier: 9786094700880
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Cassirer on Communicology: The Symbolic Forms of Language, Art, Myth, and Religion in Cultural Semiotics
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 135-140
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Cassirer’s “Violent Inner Tensions of Culture”: A Cultural Phenomenology of Ethics, Freedom and the Mythology of Peace
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 373-397
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Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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Give Peace a Chant
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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