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Book 2011.0

At a Fair Distance

edited by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

Culture Umweb 9789525576108 Available

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Other title information: International Perspectives on the Risorgimento

Annotation: A collection of studies on Italian Risorgimento performed by international scholars. It offers a view "form another angle," within a context - the 150th anniversary of Italian unification - that has generally been arranged "by Italians for Italians," lacking that particular resourcefulness and often impartiality that international scholarship was able to contribute to the Risorgimento's historiography.

Identifier: 9789525576108

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Book 2011.0

On Musical Self-Similarity

Gabriel Pareyon

Dependent title
intersemiosis as synecdoche and analogy

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9789525431322 Available

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Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.

Identifier: 9789525431322

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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

edited by Jan M. Broekman | Francis J. Mootz

Edition
1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400713406 Available

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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.

Identifier: 9789400713406

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Journal Article 2010

Dynamic instances of interaction: The performative function of iconicity in literary texts

Christina Ljungberg

In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance

Pages
270-297

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.09

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.09

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Book 2010.0

Music as sign

Maciej Jabłoński

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9789525431278 Available

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Annotation: The pupose of this book is twofold: First, being epistemological in nature, it is concerned with identifying methodologically and philosophically valuable achievements of contemporary musical semiotics. The second purpose is a pragmatic one. It stems from the need to interpret the theoretical thought of Eero Tarasti. There is no doubt that today's semiotic-musical thought, in the most general terms, is dominated by two central names and the theories behind them. The names are Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Eero Tarasti. While reconstructing Tarasti's theory, I use the text interpretation method suggested by Gunter Grimm. It originaterd with the general theory of reception formulated by E.D. Hirsch.

Identifier: 9789525431278

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Journal Article 2010

Semiotics of mimesis and communicative relationship among texts: Ekphrasis and replication between Hesiod and Homer

Paola Ghione

In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance

Pages
186-209

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.06

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.06

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Пространства и смыслы

Olga Lavrenova

Space Институт наследия 9785864431627 Available

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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта

Notes: This book has a table of contents and annotation in English.

Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.

Identifier: 9785864431627

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Book 2009.0

Murtuvat merkit

edited by Erja Hannula and Ulla Oksanen

General Semiotics Palmenia | Helsinki University Press 9789515707642 Available

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Other title information: semiotiikan teoreettisen ja soveltavan tutkimuksen näkökulmia

Annotation: The work considers the fracture and transition of signs and texts - and thus also meanings - into each other. Meaning is always formed towards the future. The use of signs to convey and present meanings is already a productive process. Meaning inevitably becomes more than what is conveyed or presented. The production of meanings is also based on various structural elements, rules and practices. Static and permanent as well as dynamic and developing are in constant interaction with each other. The articles in the work represent the rich semiotics of the early 21st century. The approaches and the theories that define them are united by the glow of comprehensive research, in which the differences between sign categories and systems are understood as task-specific and contextual, not essential.

Identifier: 9789515707642

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Book 2008.0

Obrazy dźwiękowe muzyki unistycznej

Krzystof Szwajgier

Music Akademia Muzyczna 9788387182779 Available

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Other title information: inspiracja malarska w twórczości Zygmunta Krauzego

Annotation: Zygmunt Krauze is the founder of a new current in art: unistic (unitary) music. He developed this concept in the first period of his artistic work, inspired by the unistic paintings of Władysław Strzemiński. Traces of this style are also detectable in Krauze’s later post-unistic works. Unistic music is characterised by a paradoxical unity in diversity. Most of the composer’s statements collected in this paper refer to specific features of unism in music. Other, more general comments concern the essence of music, the composer’s personal stance, the creative process, the autonomy of the composer, the audience and the performers, etc. Two longer texts by Zygmunt Krauze have been quoted in full. One can be considered as a unistic manifesto, while the other is a kind of personal credo.

Identifier: 9788387182779

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Book 2008.0

Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics

Peet Lepik

Edition
1 edition

Culture Tartu University Press 9789949118311 Available

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Notes: Appendix: Three lectures by Juri Lotman

Annotation: This book looks afresh at the heritage of cultural semiotician Juri Lotman - the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. The author proceeds from the idea that 'intellect' is one of the central categories of Juri Lotman's semiotics. Intellect becomes an important concept in Lotman's heritage - starting with the series of lectures given by him in the autumn and winter of 1967 at the University of Tartu (the lectures are published for the first time as an appendix to the book).

Identifier: 9789949118311

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Journal Article 2008

История одного текста Ю. М. Лотмана [The history of a text by Juri Lotman]

Bogusław Żyłko

In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages
513-514

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.11

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.11

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Book 2007.0

Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts

edited by Günther Witzany

Dependent title
Proceedings of Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006

Biology / Biosemiotics Umweb 9789525576030 Available

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Annotation: Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics in Salzburg 2006

Identifier: 9789525576030

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Book 2007.0

Varietas Et Concordia

edited by Ben Hellman | Tomi Huttunen | Gennady Obatnin

Dependent title
Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen

Literature Department of Slavonic and Baltic languages and literatures 9789521038310 Available

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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.

Identifier: 9789521038310

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Book 2006.0

Beethoven 3

edited by Mieczysław Tomaszewski and Magdalena Chrenkoff

Dependent title
Beethoven und die barockzeit; Beethoven: inspirationen, kontext, resonanz; Beethoven zwischen nord un sued

Music Akademia Muzyczna v Krakowie 8387182621 Available

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Other title information: Studien und Interpretationen

Annotation: a compilation of three event proceedings: Internationale Musikwissenschaftliche Symposien - Krakow 2003, Warszawa 2004 and 2005 in Rahmen des Ludwig van Beethoven Osterfestivals Konferenzbericht

Identifier: 8387182621

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Book 2006.0

La Musique et Les Signes

Eero Tarasti

Music L'Harmattan 2296004091 Available

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Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale

Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.

Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.

Identifier: 2296004091

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Book 2006.0

Muotokuvia

Eero Tarasti

Culture Suomen Semiotiikan Seura 9525431142 Available

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Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita

Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.

Identifier: 9525431142

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Book 2006.0

Music and the Arts

edited by Eero Tarasti

Edition
1 edition

Music International Semiotics Institiute 9525431096 Available

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Other title information: Volume II

Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.

Identifier: 9525431096

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Book 2006.0

The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction

Marina Grishakova

Edition
1 edition

Literature Tartu University Press Available

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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames

Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of ​​the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.

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Book 2005.0

Krzysztof Penderecki – Music in the Intertextual Era

edited by Miexzyslaw Tomaszewski | Ewa Siemdaj

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 8387182591 Available

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Other title information: markedness, correlation, and interpretation

Annotation: Materials of International Symposium Krzysztof Penderecki`s Music for the 70th anniversary of his birthday. A Symposium - organized by Academy Music of Kraków, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Scinces - was held in December 2003.

Identifier: 8387182591

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Book 2004.0

On translating signs

Dinda L. Gorlée

General Semiotics Rodopi 9042016426 Available

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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

Status: Available

Journal Article 2003

Semiotics of guilt in two Lithuanian literary texts

Loreta Mačianskaitė

In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1

Pages
163-175

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.06

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.06

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Book 2003.0

Translation translation

edited by Susan Petrilli

General Semiotics Rodopi 9042009470 Available

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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.

Identifier: 9042009470

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Book 2003.0

Семиотика в действие (Semiotika v deistvije)

edited by Kristian Bankov

Dependent title
Сборник (sbornik)

Culture New Bulgarian University 9545353104 Available

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Annotation: The publication brings together selected articles, studies and parts of monographs on semiotics, in which the most prominent working semioticians in the world demonstrate the applied and theoretical potential of the discipline. In three sections - "Semiotics and theory of culture", "Semiotics and practice", "Semiotics", the texts of Paul Cobley, Jeff Bernard, Hugo Volley, Roland Posner, Gloria Witthalm, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Susan Petrilli, are presented. Augusto Ponzio, Patricia Calefato, Eero Tarasti.

Identifier: 9545353104

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Journal Article 2002

‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary

Maija Könönen

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2

Pages
677-694

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.19

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.19

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Journal Article 2002

A sign is not alive — a text is

Kalevi Kull

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1

Pages
327-336

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.20

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.20

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Book 2002.0

Augusto Ponzio

Augusto Ponzio

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bibliografia e letture critiche

General Semiotics Edizioni dal Sud Available

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Annotation: A collection of Augusto Ponzio's bibliography and critical texts

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Book 2002.0

M. K. Čiurlionio

Darius Kucinskas

Dependent title
fortepijoninės muzikos tekstas

Music Lietuvos Muzikos akademija Available

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Other title information: Other title information (genezės aspektas)

Annotation: The purpose of this book is to reveal the genesis of Čiurlionis's piano music trxt. To that end, the general issues of text theory and the very concept of text in the paradigms of structuralism, hermeneutics, phenomenology and reception are discussed at the beginning. Next, the book defines the concept of a musical text, one of the forms of existence of a text, and reveals the essential features of a musical text, consistently revealing the genesis of the piano music text of Čiurlionis.

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Book 2002.0

Readers of the book of life

Anton Markoš

Dependent title
contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology

Biology / Biosemiotics Oxford University Press 0195149483 Available

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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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Book 2002.0

Semiotics

Daniel Chandler

Edition
1 edition

General Semiotics Routledge 0415265932 Available

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Other title information: The basics

Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?

Identifier: 0415265932

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Book 2002.0

Signs in use

Jørgen Dines Johansen | Sven Erik Larsen

General Semiotics Routledge 0415262038 Available

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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics

Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug

Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture

Identifier: 0415262038

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Transformation of public text in totalitarian system

Maarja Lõhmus

Social Tartu University Press 9512920719 Available

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Other title information: a socio-semiotic study of Soviet censorship practices in Estonian radio in the 1980s

Annotation: This study analyses the production of Soviet journalistic text. It focuses on editorial-censorship transformation in texts made during the final stage of textual preparation in journalistic institutions of Soviet Estonia at the beginning of the 1980s.

Identifier: 9512920719

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Интертекстуальный анализ сегодня [Intertextual analysis today]

Mikhail L. Gasparov

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2

Pages
645-651

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.17

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.17

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Propedeutica della traduzione

Bruno Osimo

Linguistics Hoepli 8820329352 Available

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Other title information: Corso Introduttivo con tavole sinottiche

Annotation: Per imparare a tradurre occorre molta esperienza ma l'attivià practica va fin dall'inizio inquadrata in un contesto teorico di riferimento che fornisca alcuno principi metodologici. Questo volume rispomde a tale esigenza collocandosi al livellos preparatorio delgli studi universitari nel campo della traduzione. Learning to translate requires a lot of experience, but the practical activity must be framed from the beginning in a theoretical context of reference that provides some methodological principles. This volume responds to this need by placing itself at the preparatory level of university studies in the field of translation. (translated with google translate)

Identifier: 8820329352

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The pursuit of signs

Jonathan Culler

Dependent title
Semiotics, literature deconstruction
Edition
2 edition

General Semiotics Cornell University Press 0801487935 Available

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Other title information: Augmented edition with a new preface

Annotation: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature.

Identifier: 0801487935

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Book 2000.0

La Traduzione

edited by Susan Petrilli

General Semiotics Meltemi editore 8883530349 Available

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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 Forms of Meaning

Thomas A. Sebeok | Marcel Danesi

General Semiotics Mouton de Gruyter 3110167514 Available

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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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The Perception of the Environment

Tim Ingold

Space Routledge 0415228328 Available

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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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Estrategias globales

coordinated by Antonio Caro and Carlos A. Scolari

Social La Crujía Ediciones | FELS 9789876011396 Available

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Other title information: Publicidad, marcas y semiocapitalismo

Annotation: deSignis once again places the problem of branding and advertising on the stratospheric stage within the framework of global strategies in post-industrial societies. Many authors have deeply appreciated the importance of objects and value systems that come into play in consumer society. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the commodity has a semiotic component since the exchange of goods has numerous concomitances with the exchange of messages, an idea that was present in Marx, also in Saussire and explicitly raised in the classic texts of Baudrillard and Rossi-Landi. (translated with google translate)

Identifier: 9789876011396

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Book 1999.0

Form miming meaning

edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer

General Semiotics John Benjamins Publishing Company 9027221790 Available

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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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Krzysztof Penderecki's Music in the context of 20th-century theatre

edited by Teresa Malecka

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 838718215X Available

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Notes: Collection of papers form the international symposium "Krzysztof Penderecki's Music in the Context of the 20th-century Theatre" that happened in Krakow, 18-20 September 1998, Summaries in Polish.

Annotation: Collection of papers that position Krzysztof Penderecki's Music in the context of 20th century theatre

Identifier: 838718215X

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Journal Article 1999

Logan’s speech: A social semiotic perspective on a rhetorically significant text

Joanne M. Golden; James L. Golden

In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Pages
75-96

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.75

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.75

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Book 1999.0

Snow, Forest, Silence

Edited by Eero Tarasti | assistant editors Paul Forsell | Richard Littlefield

Dependent title
The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics

Culture Indiana University Press 0253213207 Available

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Notes: One of the books in this library is inherited from Tyler James Bennet's library

Annotation: Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.

Identifier: 0253213207

Status: Available

Journal Article 1999

Sur l’analyse sémiotique des textes mathématiques

Alain Herreman

In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
31-54

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.31

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.31

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Journal Article 1999

Text as a comprehension process: Toward a model of synergism

Akio Yabuuchi

In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
59-76

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.59

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.59

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Journal Article 1999

Towards a systemic functional analysis of multisemiotic mathematics texts

Kay L. O’Halloran

In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-30

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1998

‛Him, and ourselves, and it’: On the meaning of the ‛evidence poem’ in <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i>

Karl Maroldt

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
121-130

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.121

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.121

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Journal Article 1998

A semiotic approach to <i>ekphrastic</i> poetry in the English-Chinese comparative context

Tim-Hung Ku

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages
261-280

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.261

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.261

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Journal Article 1998

Buying and buying into the ideal child

Anne Urbančič

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
91-104

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.91

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.91

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Journal Article 1998

Cross-mediality and narrative textual form: A semiotic analysis of the lexical and visual signs and codes in the picture book

Peter Pericles Trifonas

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-70

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1998

Fine arts and pictorial competence

Jožef Muhovič

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
71-90

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.71

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.71

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