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On translating signs
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Other title information: exploring text and semio-translation
Annotation: The book sets to answer questions regarding the definitions of text, translation and meaning, presenting a semiotic approach to the matter
Identifier: 9042016426
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What relations are: A case study on conceptual relations, displacement of meaning and knowledge profiling
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 109-132
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.04
Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 183-200
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.10
On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms: Could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) Umwelt?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 101-111
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.05
Pragmatism and the forms of sense
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Other title information: language, perception, technics
Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.
Identifier: 027102223X
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Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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The chicken and the Orphean egg: On the function of meaning and the meaning of function
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 15-32
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.01
Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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Bloom's morning
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- 2nd
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Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.
Identifier: 0595167500
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Ego meets Alter: The meaning of otherness in cultural semiotics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 537-560
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.537
The Forms of Meaning
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Other title information: Modeling System Theory and Semiotic Analysis
Annotation: This book presents a methodological framework, developed from the field of biosemiotics, for studying semiotic phenomena as modeling processes. It presents a descriptive system for uniting semiotics and biology so that the "modeling instinct" can be studied in terms of its manifestations in various species. The book is written in an accessible textbook style, and can thus be used as a manual by both professional semioticians and students taking courses in semiotics, biology, and the communication sciences. It is composed in such a way that a broad readership can appreciate the fascinating research going on in a relatively unknown area of interdisciplinary study.
Identifier: 3110167514
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Form miming meaning
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Other title information: iconicity in language and literature
Annotation: This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed 'imagic iconicity', as well as 'diagrammatic iconicity', i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts.
Identifier: 9027221790
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‛Him, and ourselves, and it’: On the meaning of the ‛evidence poem’ in <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i>
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 121-130
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.121
An analysis of features of meaning by Prieto
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 205-216
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.205
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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African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 307-310
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Ambiguity, interpretation, and meaning in the work of Henry James: A Peircean approach
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.3-4.207
Dance and temporality: Possibilities of meaning
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1219-1222
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Ethics and civilization: Inquiring into the meaning of man, his existence and civilization
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 831-834
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How to handle the meaning in a computer?
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 757-760
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Intertextuality and meaning construction in literary texts: A semiotic analysis
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 445-448
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Logical and methodological presumptions of Ajdukiewicz’s and Kripke-Putnam’s conceptions of meaning
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 883-886
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Meaning and truth: A Peircean approach
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 777-780
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Meaning and value of information in biological systems
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 973-976
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Meaning in postmodern worlds: The case of The French Lieutenant’s Woman
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.313
Multicultural marketing of risk—The meaning of communication policy for insurance companies
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1259-1262
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Part 3: Semiotic approaches to meaning in material culture
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 1
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- 42-63
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.116.1.42
Semiotics and storytelling
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- an introduction to semiotic analysis
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- 1 edition
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Notes: foreword by Daithi O ROgain
Annotation: Written in a simple and licid manner, Semiotics and Storytelling provides fresh insight into the porcesses underlying the production of meaning its principal aim being to present readers with a method of textual analysis that can be applied to all stories. This method is based on the theories and practice of the Paris School of Semiotics. The book is addressed to teachers and students of literature and of the media as well as to all those with an interest in storytelling and in myth.
Identifier: 1898685185
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Structure and meaning
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.1-2.71
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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Vision as meaning: Visual iconicity of Basho’s haiku
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 421-424
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Pour une pragmatique de la signification
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- Suivi d'un choix de textes de Charles S. Peirce en traductuin Francaise
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Annotation: After publishing Introduction to the Semiotics of C. S. Peirce, Professor Jean Fisette takes another leap forward in the exploration of Peirce's work by launching For a Pragmatics of Meaning.
Identifier: 2892611652
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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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The Muses
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Annotation: This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the human senses--to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred--and sense or meaning in general. Throughout the five essays, Nancy's argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel's Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit--art as the sensible presentation of the Idea. Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel, Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel's historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past, as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy.
Identifier: 0804727813
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Semiological Reduction
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Other title information: a critique of the deconstructionist movement in postmodern thought
Annotation: This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmodernism in general. The critique focuses on Derrida, but its conclusions may be applied to other major figures in the postmodern tradition who espouse the variant of Saussurean semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs. This book challenges the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots, and does so on the basis of a diligent reading of central texts and an understanding of the tradition of Continental philosophy providing the context for Derridian thought
Identifier: 079142376X
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The generation of meanings in liturgical songs
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Annotation: This book is about the meaning of liturgical songs. Everybody who sings liturgical songs knows what liturgical songs is and also what it means. But when we start to talk about them, things become confused. We know too much and there are too many languages in which we can express what we think their meaning is. And what is worse, other people seem no to understand what we say and immediately reply that we may know a lot but not what they know. Then the discussion turns into a quarrel amongst people who know too much and cannot communicate what they know. A wise person may enter into the quarrel and say that communication about liturgical songs can only succeed when we sing together. Then we will sing together, confused and angry, because we now also know that the other people may sings very well, but do not understand what they are doing. This is what has been happening for decades in the Dutch churches. Perhaps we should be silent and start to look and listen very carefully to liturgical songs, while developing a language in which the songs themselves can speak, communicating what they have to say. The looking and listening will take much time and energy: there are no more easy answers. And the language will be so difficult that we are forced to be silent, waiting and hoping for a word to come. -back cover
Identifier: 9039005117
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An introudction to systemic functional linguistics
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Annotation: Systemic linguistics is an approach which views language as a strategic, meaning making resource. This text, an introduction to this semiotic approach, focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organised to enable those meanings to be made.
Identifier: 185567209X
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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
Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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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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Musical meaning in Beethoven
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Annotation: Offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with an analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, this book examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at various levels of structure.
Identifier: 0253327423
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Intermittences du sens
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- études sémiotiques
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Annotation: Les intermittences du sens, c'est ici, tout d'abord, une pluralité d'pbjects en tous genres (romans, nouvelles ou poèmes, en françauis ou en anglais; discours littéraires, échanges de lettres, bribes de conversation courante; pratiques quotidienne ou objets esthétiques) que traverse et que scande le retour d'une même question: celle de la signification de son surgissement, de ses modes de manifestation et même, peut-on dire, de ses agissements. C'est aussi de point en point et de part en part, le jeu réglé des singularités et des récurrences, l'alternance des espèces constituées et des morphologies en devenir, l'entrejeu des discontinuités et des enchaînements, sur le support, el la dynamique des places et des forces. C'est, dans l'épaisseur des textes, l'échange réversible entre l'espace vectorisé oû les figures se déploient et le substrat figural que y imprime sa prosodie et ses contours. C'est enfin et surtout à la caçon de l'accompagnement qui lie la partition, l'interrogation sur le ses du sens: non pas tant sa saisie que sa poursuite et plutôt que sa fuite, sa fugue. The intermittences of meaning are here, first of all, a plurality of objects of all kinds (novels, short stories or poems, in French or in English; literary discourses, exchanges of letters, snippets of everyday conversation; daily practices or aesthetic objects) that cross and that are punctuated by the return of the same question: that of the meaning of its emergence, of its modes of manifestation and even, one might say, of its actions. It is also from point to point and from one end to the other, the regulated play of singularities and recurrences, the alternation of constituted species and morphologies in the making, the interplay of discontinuities and sequences, on the support, and the dynamics of places and forces. It is, in the thickness of the texts, the reversible exchange between the vectorized space where the figures are deployed and the figural substrate that its prosody and its contours imprint there. It is finally and above all the way of accompaniment which links the score, the questioning of the meaning: not so much its grasp as its pursuit and rather than its escape, its fugue. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 2130445225
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Meaning and Geography
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Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.
Identifier: 3110129566
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Pandora and Occam
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Other title information: on the Limits of Language and Literature
Annotation: Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom.
Identifier: 0253349958
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The Construction of Pictorial Meaning
In: Advances in Visual Semiotics: The Semiotic Web 1992-93
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- 109-162
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The semiotics of theater
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Notes: Originally published in three volumes as Semiotik des Theaters (1983)
Annotation: The theater is a particularly privileged semiotic object. Unlike literature or painting which operate within a single sign-system, theater combines a variety of sign-systems - language and gesture, costume and decoration, music and lighting - each of which generates meaning according to different principles. This complexity creates special challenges for understanding theater as a meaning-generating system. Erika Fischer-Lichte's book examines each of the sign-systems of the theater and investigates the ways they relate to one another. The result is a brilliant articulation of a semiotics of theater
Identifier: 0253322375
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Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219