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Protosemiotics and physicosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 13-26
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.01
S/E ≥ 1: A semiotic understanding of bioengineering
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 277-291
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.16
The emergence of signs of living feeling: Reverberations from the first Gatherings in Biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 369-376
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.23
Thinking with animals
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 203-218
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.12
Towards a semiotic definition of trash
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 313-324
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.18
Vital signs: An ecosemiotic perspective on the human ecology of Amazonia
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 121-152
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.08
Wilderness from an ecosemiotic perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 169-186
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.10
Intellectual Effort and Linguistic Work
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- Semiotic and Hermeneutic Aspects of the Philosophy of Bergson
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Annotation: Bergson discusses the questions of philosophic truth in a way that allows an interpretation in terms of contemporary semiotics and hermeneutics. In his famous "Philosophical intuition" he defines this kind of truth as "something simple, infinitely simple, so extraordinarily simple that the philosopher has never succeded in saying it". This dialectic between intuition and its 'saying' is examined as the hermeneutics of understanding and interpretation. At the same time, this study attempts to open new insights in Bergson's philosophy, and especially in his notion of Intellectual Effort. Kristian Bankov, in his essay, considers this concept not only central to Bergson's philosophy, but also a key to the sign-nature of our whole being and existence in the world.
Identifier: 9519865403
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La Traduzione
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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Analyzing cultures
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Other title information: An introduction and handbook
Annotation: Analyzing Cultures is a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines, including introductory courses in semiotics, courses in cultural studies, anthropology courses on culture, social science courses on human nature.
Identifier: 0253335671
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The concept of nature in ancient Finns and Karelians
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 345-368
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.345
Visible signature ('Signatures of the Visible'by Fredric Jameson)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Visible signature ('Signatures of the Visible'by Fredric Jameson)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Semiotic ecology: different nature in the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 1998, Volume 26
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- 344-371
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1998.26.15
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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Is nature a language? J. W. Goethe on scientific knowledge
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 175-178
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Sauron’s Newspeak: Black Speech, Quenya, and the nature of mind
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 219-222
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The Constitution of Han-Academic Ideology
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Parallel title: Parallel title: An Archetype of Chinese Ethics and Academic Ideology
Other title information: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study
Annotation: Intercultural philosophy does not take its starting point from the comparison of different cultures from a neutral point of view, it instead arises through the confrontation with certain features of another culture which distance the philosopher from his or her own tradition, compelling it to be regarded in a new way. In dealing with the origins of Confucian ethics, You-Zheng Li does exactly this. His extensive training in Western Hermeneutics and semiotics enables him to reformulate the set of ethical customs, rituals, rules and strategies formulated 2500 years ago in ancient China. In contrast to Western ethics, which are thoroughly penetrated by the divine commands of the Judeo-Christian tradition and mainly characterized by the search for the practical good and one's own happiness begun in Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese ethics originated and developed largely outside the domains of religion and philosophy. In attempting to elaborate on the specific nature of these ethics, the author navigates between Scylla and Charybdis. He seeks to avoid the one extreme of merely repeating from the inside what has already been said, with its effective reduction of ethical theory to certain reflexes of practical life. Just as well, however, he tries to avoid the other extreme of measuring ancient traditions by external standards and therewith exchanging old prejudices for new ones. He much rather tries to elucidate the foundation of Chinese ethics by using a certain language and a certain method which, as only one language and one method among others, does not aver to exhaust the inherent sense and the efficacious demand of what has been or is still being lived out and practised.
Identifier: 3631313853
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The sign nature of goods and commodities
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1231-1234
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The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype
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Parallel title: Parallel title: An Archetype of Chinese Ethics and Academic Ideology
Other title information: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study
Annotation: Intercultural philosophy does not take its starting point from the comparison of different cultures from a neutral point of view, it instead arises through the confrontation with certain features of another culture which distance the philosopher from his or her own tradition, compelling it to be regarded in a new way. In dealing with the origins of Confucian ethics, You-Zheng Li does exactly this. His extensive training in Western Hermeneutics and semiotics enables him to reformulate the set of ethical customs, rituals, rules and strategies formulated 2500 years ago in ancient China. In contrast to Western ethics, which are thoroughly penetrated by the divine commands of the Judeo-Christian tradition and mainly characterized by the search for the practical good and one's own happiness begun in Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese ethics originated and developed largely outside the domains of religion and philosophy. In attempting to elaborate on the specific nature of these ethics, the author navigates between Scylla and Charybdis. He seeks to avoid the one extreme of merely repeating from the inside what has already been said, with its effective reduction of ethical theory to certain reflexes of practical life. Just as well, however, he tries to avoid the other extreme of measuring ancient traditions by external standards and therewith exchanging old prejudices for new ones. He much rather tries to elucidate the foundation of Chinese ethics by using a certain language and a certain method which, as only one language and one method among others, does not aver to exhaust the inherent sense and the efficacious demand of what has been or is still being lived out and practised.
Identifier: 3631313861
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Beyond the symbol model
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Other title information: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language
Annotation: Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact.
Identifier: 0791430839
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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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Origins of Semiosis
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Other title information: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture
Annotation: The all-comprehensive scope set by the topic of Origins of Semiosis necessarily encompasses a great thematic diversity. The disciplinary horizon of the contributors to this volume is also highly diverse: it extends from anthropology to zoology and from linguistics to visual aesthetics. Unity in this diversity may be provided by the transdisciplinary framework of semiotics which guides the authors' explorations in the evolution of semiosis, even though the framework of this volume is by no means one of a unifying school of specific semiotic theory.
Identifier: 3110141965
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Les enjeux de la sémiotique
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Other title information: Introducion a la semiotique generale
Annotation: Le languge veut être ingnoré. C'est sa destination naturelle d'être un moyen et non une fin - et ce n'est qu'au prix d'une violente conversion que la recherche peur être dirigée vers ce que est le moyen même de la connaissance. Cette conversion que fut le fait des linguistes ne devait pas mettre fin aux dérobade du langage. Elle conduisit à transporter au sein mêeme de l'objet de sicence-angage de même distance sacrée, cette fois à l'égard des phénomènes du sens. Leur immédiateté, leur naturelle évidence étaient le plus sûr rempart de mystifications dont pouvait s'entourer le langage.
Identifier: 2130448593
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Reader Response to Literature
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Other title information: To Empirical Dimension
Annotation: The research reported here lays the groundwork for further empirical investigations of reader response. It also provides new insights into how worlds and structures relate to and reproduce our inner and outer space, how the choice of text and critical approach can predetermine responses, and how interpretation depends in part on the cultural forces we reflect and reproduce. This volume does not present a more or less random sample of texts and studies dealing with reader response. Rather, the writers were selected because of their empirical expertise, and because they approached the study of reader response from a perspective which would provide possible answers as to the nature and pattern of reader response to literature.
Identifier: 3110127644
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From language to nature: The semiotic metaphor in biology
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.1-2.1
Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 145-170
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Nature, custom, and stipulation in the semiotic of John Poinsot
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.1-2.33
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
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Thinking is seeing: Visual metaphors and the nature of abstract thought
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.221
Aperçu de logique naturelle: Une alternative au traitement logico-mathématique de l’information
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.195
Narrative Lurches and the Nature of Knowing: Coincidence and Perception in Jane Austen’s Sanditon
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 239-249
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The arbitrary nature of the sign
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.75.1-2.63
Convention, Translation, and Understanding
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- Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
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Annotation: This book surveys theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to the discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.
Identifier: 0887066739
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Signs and signatures: Reading God’s Herbal
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.63.1-2.109
The Dialectical Biologist
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
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THE SEMIOTICS OF SIGNATURES IN PAINTING: A PEIRCIAN ANALYSIS
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1985, Volume 3, Issue 3
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- 73-108
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Semiotics and the philosophy of language
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
Identifier: 0253351685
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The postmodern condition
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Other title information: a report on knowledge
Notes: Translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, foreword by Frederic Jameson. Originally published in France as La Condition postmoderne: rappot sur le savoir (1979)
Annotation: Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages
Identifier: 0719014506
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Narratologie, sémiotique générale
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Annotation: La théorie sémiotique n'a rien de spectaculaire. Un travail infiniment lent guide ses pas; et cependant les horizons symboliques qu'ell perment de saisir "d'un seul coupl d'œil" s'étendent chauqe jour. A quoi convinientůel d!attribuer un tel pourvoir de synthèse? L'etude des concepts profonds des langues naturelles montre qu!ils sont une sorte de mise en mémoire des comportements humains fondamentraux. Ainsi se révèle une rationalité tout autre, dont il n'avait pas été tenu compte jusqu'ici. Que faut-il attendre d'une exploracion systématique et démonstrative de ce "sens humain"?
Identifier: 213037736X
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The Realism of C. W. Peirce, or How Homer and Nature Can Be the Same
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 1/2
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- 225-263
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Human nature: Of communication, of structuralism, of semiotics
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.25
Nature’s Way? Visual Images of Childhood in American Culture
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.173
On the Nature of Meanings
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.4.307