A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, proceedings papers, collection articles and semiotic research materials. Search across the full database; results are shown with pagination.
The 38th Albi–Moissac Colloquium of French semioticians: Living beings and their environment
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 398-400
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.13
The dual essence of pleasure: Willing, imagining and planning the Saussurean sublime and beautiful in surviving daunting nature and culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
- Pages
- 44-63
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.02
The epistemic role of intermedial visual artworks: An analysis of the photobooks Palast der Republik and Domesticidades
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
- Pages
- 64-89
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.03
The semiotics of models
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
- Pages
- 7-43
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.01
Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
- Pages
- 630-639
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.11
Umberto Eco on the biosemiotics of Giorgio Prodi
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 352-364
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.08
Umwelt, Lebenswelt and Dasein seen through the lens of a subjective experience of reality
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
- Pages
- 126-142
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.06
Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 319-342
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06
3D printing: Of signs and objects
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 165-177
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0127
Analyzing the fictional worlds of Pixar with an eye on digital humanities
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 91-117
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0081
Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
- Dependent title
- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
View details
Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
Status: Available
La Corposphère
- Dependent title
- Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps
View details
Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.
Identifier: 9783639624175
Status: Available
Mimicry and Meaning
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
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
Status: Available
Semiotics and its Masters
- Dependent title
- Volume 1
View details
Notes: Authors in the collection: Paul Cobley, Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio, Youzheng Li, Marcel Danesi, Göran Sonesson, Gianfranco Marrone, Alexandros Ph. Logopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, François Jost, José Luis Fernández, Patrizia Violi, Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Ugo Volli, Farouk Y. Seif, John Deely, Eero Tarasti, Dinda L. Gorlée, Isabella Pexxini, Anne Hénault
Annotation: This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessubly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized.
Identifier: 9781501511752
Status: Available
Sounds, Societies, Significations
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
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
Status: Available
Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 21-64
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0074
Stroke systems in Chinese characters: A systemic functional perspective on simplified regular script
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 1-19
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0111
Telos and Object
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
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
Status: Available
The embodiment of connotations: A proposed model
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 65-79
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0112
The semiotic abstraction
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0148
Towards a dynamic model of the sign
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 137-144
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0140
Toy stories: On the disciplinary regime of vibration
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 145-164
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0113
Void of sign
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
- Pages
- 119-135
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0143
“La morte non avrà signoria”: Domande per Umberto Eco
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0096
Crimes of the sign: Politics and performatives in the Treason Trials of 1794
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
- Pages
- 231-248
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0016
Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
Identifier: 9789402408577
Status: Available
Food design chez Bras
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
- Pages
- 341-353
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0090
Food design: Symbols of our daily nutrition
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
- Pages
- 355-369
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101
From Grammar to Discourse
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
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
Status: Available
Le sens caché: Refoulement et impensé dans le discours de la loi sémiotique des significations cachées du discours juridique
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0012
Reading palm-up signs: Neurosemiotic overview of a common hand gesture
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
- Pages
- 235-250
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0053
Rethinking semiotics: Toward a theory of intentional sign
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
- Pages
- 167-189
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0065
Showing what “marriage” is: Law’s civilizing sign
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
- Pages
- 249-275
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0008
Size and shape depictions in the manual modality: A taxonomy of iconic devices in Adamorobe Sign Language
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0049
The culinary and social-semiotic meaning of food: Spicy meals and their significance in Mexico, Italy, and Texas
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
- Pages
- 247-269
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0108
Zero sign duality in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
- Pages
- 209-214
View details
Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0051
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
- Pages
- 281-346
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.09
Between emotion, imagination and cognition: Play as a hybrid neuro-evolutionary concept in bridging Saussure, Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 249-268
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.07
Describing the past: Tartu-Moscow School ideas on history, historiography, and the historian's craft
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 269-280
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.08
Digital monsters: Representations of humans on the Internet
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 173-190
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.02
Gustav Shpet's deep semiotics: A science of understanding signs
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 235-248
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.06
Heroizability
View details
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
Status: Available
Hidden principles of improvisation
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 226-234
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.05
Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
View details
Annotation: Our relationship with "other" animals is not only becoming socially ever more significant, it has also been rediscovered as a topic for the humanities and sciences. This volume is the first encyclopedia to devote itself comprehensively to the relationship between humans and animals. In contrast to traditional introductions into animal ethics, the large-scale work does not limit itself to issues of moral philosophy but also explores the human-animal relationship from a historical, sociological, ethological and cultural perspective
Identifier: 9783837622324
Status: Available
Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights
- Edition
- 1 edition
View details
Annotation: This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems across the globe today? How can we account for the significant change in moral values in one place in less than 100 years’ time? Using examples from classical civilizations, the book demonstrates how increasing diversity compromises a moral system’s ability to account for and integrate larger populations into a single social unit. This environmental stress is not relieved until a broader, more abstract moral system is adopted by a social system. This new system provides a sense of belonging and purpose for more people, motivating them to engage in prosocial (or moral) acts and refrain from socially disruptive selfish acts. The current human rights paradigm is the world’s first universal, indigenous moral system. Because moral systems can be expected to continue to evolve, this book points to current boundaries of the human rights paradigm and where the next major moral revolution might emerge.
Identifier: 9789401795500
Status: Available
Opposition theory and computational semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 159-172
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.01
Sociocultural crossings and borders
View details
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
Status: Available
The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 347-364
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.10
The polyglot self in the semiotic spheres of language and culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 207-225
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.04
What brand associations are
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
- Pages
- 191-206
View details
Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.03