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The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation in the life sciences
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 647-655
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.647
Popular culture and everyday life
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Annotation: Combining an analysis of power and subjectivity with perspectives on the everyday, Popular Culture and Everyday Life offers a broad-ranging survey of social and cultural theory.
Identifier: 0761952128
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Sign, Thought, Culture
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- A basic course in semiotics
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Annotation: An introduction to semiotics, written in accessible language with references to everyday life so that the reader can develop an understanding of how signs work in the social world and communication.
Identifier: 1551301318
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Signs and Symbols
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Other title information: their design and meaning
Notes: Original title in German "Der Manch un seine Sachen" (1928), English translation by Andrew Bluhm
Annotation: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks. This is a compelling study of the nature of signs and how people communicate written by the distinguished typographer Adrian Frutiger; who has illustrated his text with over 2000 line drawings. He reproduces numerous aspects of graphic symbolism from the simplicity of the T-sign to the ornamentation of the Australian aboriginal painting, and comments on the full range of symbols even including modern trademarks and traffic signs. This is the distillation of Frutiger's life's work and compulsory reading for all those interested in graphics, design, art, ornament and communication in general.
Identifier: 0823048268
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Signs in the attic: Courts in material life
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1119-1122
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Signs of life
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 909-912
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Subject(s) and everyday life discourse: Women speaking
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 941-944
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The Constitution of Han-Academic Ideology
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Parallel title: Parallel title: An Archetype of Chinese Ethics and Academic Ideology
Other title information: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study
Annotation: Intercultural philosophy does not take its starting point from the comparison of different cultures from a neutral point of view, it instead arises through the confrontation with certain features of another culture which distance the philosopher from his or her own tradition, compelling it to be regarded in a new way. In dealing with the origins of Confucian ethics, You-Zheng Li does exactly this. His extensive training in Western Hermeneutics and semiotics enables him to reformulate the set of ethical customs, rituals, rules and strategies formulated 2500 years ago in ancient China. In contrast to Western ethics, which are thoroughly penetrated by the divine commands of the Judeo-Christian tradition and mainly characterized by the search for the practical good and one's own happiness begun in Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese ethics originated and developed largely outside the domains of religion and philosophy. In attempting to elaborate on the specific nature of these ethics, the author navigates between Scylla and Charybdis. He seeks to avoid the one extreme of merely repeating from the inside what has already been said, with its effective reduction of ethical theory to certain reflexes of practical life. Just as well, however, he tries to avoid the other extreme of measuring ancient traditions by external standards and therewith exchanging old prejudices for new ones. He much rather tries to elucidate the foundation of Chinese ethics by using a certain language and a certain method which, as only one language and one method among others, does not aver to exhaust the inherent sense and the efficacious demand of what has been or is still being lived out and practised.
Identifier: 3631313853
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The meaning of life: Extensional semantics in the game go
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 299-302
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The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype
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- 1 edition
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Parallel title: Parallel title: An Archetype of Chinese Ethics and Academic Ideology
Other title information: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study
Annotation: Intercultural philosophy does not take its starting point from the comparison of different cultures from a neutral point of view, it instead arises through the confrontation with certain features of another culture which distance the philosopher from his or her own tradition, compelling it to be regarded in a new way. In dealing with the origins of Confucian ethics, You-Zheng Li does exactly this. His extensive training in Western Hermeneutics and semiotics enables him to reformulate the set of ethical customs, rituals, rules and strategies formulated 2500 years ago in ancient China. In contrast to Western ethics, which are thoroughly penetrated by the divine commands of the Judeo-Christian tradition and mainly characterized by the search for the practical good and one's own happiness begun in Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese ethics originated and developed largely outside the domains of religion and philosophy. In attempting to elaborate on the specific nature of these ethics, the author navigates between Scylla and Charybdis. He seeks to avoid the one extreme of merely repeating from the inside what has already been said, with its effective reduction of ethical theory to certain reflexes of practical life. Just as well, however, he tries to avoid the other extreme of measuring ancient traditions by external standards and therewith exchanging old prejudices for new ones. He much rather tries to elucidate the foundation of Chinese ethics by using a certain language and a certain method which, as only one language and one method among others, does not aver to exhaust the inherent sense and the efficacious demand of what has been or is still being lived out and practised.
Identifier: 3631313861
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Signs Grow
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Other title information: Semiosis and Life Processes
Notes: 2nd book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)
Annotation: Floyd Merrell's second book in his Signs Becoming Signs trilogy, correlating to his approach to Peircean 'secondness', or indexicality. In its preface, Merrell describes the purpose of this book, in relation to its predecessor, Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe, to be that of a Faustian revelation. Amidst all that seems unknowable, a form, an episteme, a causal mapping, will be drawn!
Identifier: 0802007783
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Signs of meaning in the universe
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Notes: Translated by Barbara J. Haveland
Annotation: This book examines the radical premise that the sign, not the molecule, is the crucial, underlying factor in the study of life
Identifier: 0253332338
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Faces in the clouds
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Other title information: a new theory of religion
Annotation: In this book anthorpologist Steward githrie argues persuasively that religion is anthropomorphism - the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and events. Guthrie's explanation is radical. Anthropomorphism and hence religion, he says, strem form a stratefy of perception. Mrdhalling a wealth of evidence from etnography, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art and animal behavior. Faces in the clouds shows how this perceptual strategy pervades human life and how it underlines religious experience
Identifier: 0195069013
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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
Messages and Meanings
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- An introduction to semiotics
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Annotation: An overview of semiotics applied to different topics, such as media, communication and aspects of everyday life like food or clothing
Identifier: 1551300273
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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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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 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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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
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
Review article
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.325
Some gestures commonly used in Nanjing, PRC
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.235
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.u
Structuring the domain of human nonverbal behavior: A biological, Popperian perspective from the field of human movement studies
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.205
Du ‘signe ironique’ à l’énonce ironique
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.75
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.177
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.87
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.u
Stardom and symbolic degeneracy: Television and the transformation of the stars as public symbols
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-48
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.1
Submerged forms: Properties of plot in narrative discourse
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.49
'Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?': The Biosemiotic Self
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 333-344
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As Signs Grow, So Life Goes
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 251-281
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Biosemiotics, Ethnographically Speaking
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 407-426
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Biosemiotics: A Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 345-373
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Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev's as Well as Peirce's Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 427-454
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Charlie Chaplin
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Other title information: His reflections in modern times
Annotation: The book includes detailed studies of Charlie Chaplin's life and work, written by authors from various humanities fields
Identifier: 3110126001
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Concerning Gaia—Semiosic Production of/in/by/for Our Planet
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 1-13
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Ecogenesis and Echogenesis: Some Problems for Biosemiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 171-211
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Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 15-25
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Evolution and Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 221-233
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Half of the Living World Was Unable to Communicate for about One Billion Years
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 375-392
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Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 77-99
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Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 145-170
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On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 301-316
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On the Emergence of Chemical Languages
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 471-486
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On the Specificity of Musculoskeletal Symptoms: A Biosemiotic Excursion
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 235-249
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Organization of Biosystems: A Semiotic Approach
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 125-144
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Phytosemiotics Revisited
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 213-219
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Semiotics and Biosemiotics: Are Sign-Science and Life-Science Coextensive?
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 46-75