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A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, proceedings papers, collection articles and semiotic research materials. Search across the full database; results are shown with pagination.
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
Sounds and gestures of linguistic reference: the endurance of reality in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 351-374
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0018
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
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 manner of use, the uses and sub-uses of terms in social sciences: from the functional approach to natural language to applied semiotics and the philosophy of science
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 23-39
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0019
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
Token reflexivity and logic
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 241-259
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0009
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
“In my head, I have a cleaning lady:” Symbol form and symbolic intention in the everyday use of money
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 119-151
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0100
Charles Peirce and firstness: The category of origins
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 63-73
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0038
Collocational semiosis in the academic discourse of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): The case of AFRICA
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 185-227
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0103
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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El arsenal de Clío
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Other title information: el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990
Annotation: The book explores the question of how history should be written. It uses different frameworks, borrowing from philosophy, linguistics, politology and other fields from the humanities and social sciences
Identifier: 9788412007084
Status: Available
Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 91-111
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126
Garroni, the late Peirce, and the issue of creativity
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 165-184
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0128
Image and word as forms of iconic depiction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 75-90
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0112
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
Peirce, Aristotle, metaphor – and comments to Factor
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 51-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0037
Re charged emblems: Hawthorne and semiotic metamorphics
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 1-26
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0119
Semeiotic time
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 113-117
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0108
The spectrum of subjectal forms: Towards an Integral Semiotics
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 27-49
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0022
Spaces and Meanings
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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9783030151676
Status: Available
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
Status: Available
About the (semiotic) limits of the human language: Discussing the case of Pirahã
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 392-397
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.12
Animal language before Sebeok
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 365-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09
Differentiation of language functions during language acquisition based on Roman Jakobson’s communication model
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 517-537
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.06
Financial discourse of the 2007–2008 crisis: From unpredictability and explosion to predictability
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 282-293
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.04
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
The dual essence of pleasure: Willing, imagining and planning the Saussurean sublime and beautiful in surviving daunting nature and culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 44-63
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.02
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 Symbolic Forms in Application: New Symbolization of New Thought in the Language of Online Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 427-444
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Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 181-231
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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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Telos and Object
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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis
Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.
Identifier: 9783034320887
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A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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A sociosemiotic approach to the legal dispute over the crime of whoring with an underage girl in China
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 277-299
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0015
A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
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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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An exploration of the semantic domain of legal language
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 187-208
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0001
Burying attitudes in words: Linguistic realization of the shift of judges’ court conciliation style
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 397-418
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0022