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Journal Article 2021

Semiotic hybridization in Persian poetry and Iranian music

Amir Sedaghat

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
275-310

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0096

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Journal Article 2021

Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis

Yueyue Liu; Le Cheng

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242

Pages
241-247

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0024

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0024

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Journal Article 2021

Signic knowledge: its niche in semiotics and its various aspects

Yiqiang Jin; Liqin Cao

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239

Pages
225-242

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0070

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Journal Article 2021

Sounds and gestures of linguistic reference: the endurance of reality in the poetry of Wallace Stevens

Melih Levi

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240

Pages
351-374

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0018

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Journal Article 2021

Spatial diagrams and geometrical reasoning in the theater

Irit Degani-Raz

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239

Pages
177-200

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0052

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Journal Article 2021

Splits on Instagram: a case study of young adults’ selfies

Reham El Shazly

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
185-218

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0099

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Journal Article 2021

Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »

Sophie Jollin-Bertocchi; Lia Kurts-Wöste

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
121-137

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0157

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Journal Article 2021

Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction

Daniel Candel

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242

Pages
141-168

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071

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Journal Article 2021

The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online

Matteo Treleani

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
219-235

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0043

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0043

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Journal Article 2021

The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)

Orit Fuks

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242

Pages
101-122

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0049

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Journal Article 2021

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

Michał Roman Węsierski

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240

Pages
23-39

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0019

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Journal Article 2021

The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress

Marilia Jardim

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242

Pages
17-37

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050

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Journal Article 2021

The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics

José Martínez-Fernández; Genoveva Martí

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240

Pages
145-163

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0011

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0011

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Journal Article 2021

The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration

Michael Ranta

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
1-27

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0071

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Journal Article 2021

Token reflexivity and logic

Geoff Georgi

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240

Pages
241-259

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0009

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Journal Article 2021

Towards a stratified metafunctional model of animation

Yufei He

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239

Pages
1-35

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0078

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Journal Article 2021

Understanding and translating Confucian philosophy in the <i>Analect</i>s: a sociosemiotic perspective

Fan Min

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239

Pages
287-306

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0144

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0144

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Journal Article 2021

Vers une sémiotique sadienne

Sergio Torres-Martínez

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241

Pages
139-158

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0115

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Journal Article 2021

Visual affect in films: a semiotic approach

Yi Jing

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239

Pages
99-124

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0081

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Journal Article 2020

“In my head, I have a cleaning lady:” Symbol form and symbolic intention in the everyday use of money

Marie McNabb; Karl Chan-Brown; Julia Keller

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
119-151

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0100

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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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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0103

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Book 2020.0

Culture and Communication

edited by Andreas Schönle

Dependent title
An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
Edition
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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Book 2020.0

El arsenal de Clío

Juan Luis Fernández Vega

Edition
1 edition

Culture Genueve Ediciones 9788412007084 Available

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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

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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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Identifier: 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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Identifier: 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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Identifier: 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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Identifier: 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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Identifier: 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

Spaces and Meanings

Olga Lavrenova

Edition
1 edition

Space Springer Cham 9783030151676 Available

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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

Book 2019.0

Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology

Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva

Edition
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

Financial discourse of the 2007–2008 crisis: From unpredictability and explosion to predictability

Griselda Zárate, Homero Zambrano

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

Pages
282-293

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.04

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.04

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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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Journal Article 2018

The dual essence of pleasure: Willing, imagining and planning the Saussurean sublime and beautiful in surviving daunting nature and culture

Jui-Pi Chien

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1

Pages
44-63

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.02

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.02

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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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Journal Article 2017

Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson

Richard L. Lanigan

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

Pages
181-231

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Book 2017.0

Give Peace a Chant

Dario Martinelli

Edition
1 edition

Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available

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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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Book 2017.0

Telos and Object

Luca Russo

Edition
1 edition

General Semiotics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034320887 Available

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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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Journal Article 2016

A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory

Phillip Guddemi

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics

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
1 edition

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

Burying attitudes in words: Linguistic realization of the shift of judges’ court conciliation style

Xu Youping

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209

Pages
397-418

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0022

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0022

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