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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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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Our Responsibility to Future Generations in the Context of Ecological Crisis: Perspectives and Future Challenges
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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Réécriture et chanson
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- dans l'aire romane
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Annotation: De la mise en musique de la poésie à la reprise qui resémantise, de la littérature qui se réinvente en deux minutes trente aux grandes figures de la chanson qu’on traduit parce qu’on les admire, des covers caricaturales aux arrangements qui redéfinissent un chant connu, on parlera ici de toutes les formes d’interprétation en chanson : traduire, (re)chanter, renouveler la musique, donner un sens nouveau, donner le même sens avec d’autres mots ou d’autres sons.
Identifier: 9791032000960
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Sounds, Societies, Significations
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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Identifier: 9783319470597
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A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 151-166
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
A-voiding representation:<i>Eräugnis</i>and inscription in Celan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 601-623
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163
Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 435-455
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028
Becoming a commercial semiotician
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 345-363
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 493-538
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109
Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 365-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156
Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 307-343
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094
From Grammar to Discourse
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Other title information: Towards a Solipsistic Paradigm of Semiotics
Notes: One of the copies of this book was given to the library by Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: This publication traces the human capacity for sign use from its linguistic and cultural context. Such scholarship suggests the foundation of a discursive paradigm for semiotics stuck in mundane phenomenology, associated inter alia with the contributions of Leo Zawadovski and Ernst Cassirer drawing their inspiration from Karl Buhler.
Identifier: 9788323230823
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Identifying the meanings hidden in legal texts: The three conditions of relevance theory and their sufficiency
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 99-123
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0005
Interrelations of codes in human semiotic systems
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 557-599
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138
La possibilité d’une étude sémiotique des transhumanités: Une lecture d’un film <i>La Créature céleste</i>, bouddha robot coréen
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 43-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0157
La triple chaîne prédicative
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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte
Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9783034320979
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Leadership as zero-institution
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 473-491
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0101
Les deux barricades: Complexité sémiotique et objectivation des faits de style dans un extrait des<i>Misérables</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 91-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0098
McLuhan’s war: Cartoons and decapitations
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 457-472
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0132
Meaning-making across disparate realities: A new cognitive model for the personality-integrating response to fairy tales
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0141
Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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Musica mathematica
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Other title information: traditions and innovations in contemporary music
Notes: This book was originally published under the title Musica mathematica. Tradicijos ir inovacijos šiuolaikineje muzikoje by Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (Vilnius: Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, 2013, ISBN 978-609-8071-10-8)
Annotation: The concept of musica mathematica seeks to accurately examine the itnersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and number. In the three parts of the monograph, versatile cases of the itnersection of music and mathematics are displayed, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about mathesis to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other kinds of art (architecture, painting, poetry and literature) and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions.
Identifier: 9783631713815
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Nature and culture in visual communication: Japanese variations on<i>Ludus Naturae</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 213-245
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0145
Non-anthropogenic mind and complexes of cultural codes
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0034
Rethinking the Peircean trichotomy of icon, index, and symbol
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0134
Semiosis of intercultural cooking: The nineteenth century travel literature as a case study
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0091
Semiotics and education, semioethic perspectives
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 247-279
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0078
Semiotics of precision and imprecision
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 539-555
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0077
The problem of the modern and tradition
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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)
Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.
Identifier: 9789526825779
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The rhetoric of love and self-narrativesin the cinema image: A Peircean approach
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 197-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0033
The rise and fall of metaphor: A study in meaning and meaninglessness
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 419-433
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0131
The structural properties of the anagram in poetry
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 123-164
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0158
The translation of food in literature: A culinary journey through time and genres
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0102
Toward an embodied account of double-voiced discourse: The critical role of imagery and affect in Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 177-196
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0159
Towards a teleo-semiotic theory of individuation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0103
Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of<i>the other</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0031
A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 281-346
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.09
Heroizability
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Other title information: An anthroposemiotic theory of Literary characters
Annotation: It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.
Identifier: 9781501510816
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Scales in Lithuanian traditional music
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Other title information: Acoustics, Cognition, and contexts
Annotation: This book presents a cross-cultural perspective on Lithuanian traditional music, with the aim of revealing the phenomena of musical scales from acoustics, cognitive and contextual viewpoints.
Identifier: 9786098081855
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Sociocultural crossings and borders
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Other title information: musical microhistories
Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.
Identifier: 9786098071290
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Greimas close and far
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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Human Suffering and Quality of Life
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Other title information: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Annotation: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.
Identifier: 9789400776685
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Philosophies of Performance
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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.
Identifier: 9525431371
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Beginnings of the Semiotics of Culture
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Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Key historical texts of semiotics of culture in Tartu Moscow School
Identifier: 9789949323234
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Crossing Boundaries
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Other title information: Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family and School
Notes: editor of the series Jaan Valsiner
Annotation: Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Emphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practicies regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems.
Identifier: 9781623963941
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Léo Ferré
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- biographie
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Annotation: Biography of French poet Léo Ferré
Identifier: 9782352874584
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