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Understanding Morphology
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Annotation: Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a variety of languages.
Identifier: 9780340950012
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Mediating the 'idea of One'
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Other title information: Arvo Pärt's pre-existing music in film
Notes: Kaire Maimets-Volt's dissertation
Annotation: The principal aim of this dissertation is to examine the use of Arvo Part's pre-existing tintinnabuli compositions in contemporary film soundtracks in order to determine the aesthetic reception of this music in film art. This will be achieved primarily through film analyses that explore the functions of tintinnabuli music in film, and the expressive meanings this music is considered suitable to communicate (with).
Identifier: 9789985979761
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The Parallax View
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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Finland-Italy
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Other title information: a few comparisons
Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
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Music and the Arts
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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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Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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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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Zbigniew Bujarski
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Other title information: Twórczość i osobowość
Annotation: The presented book is mainly devoted to the work, primarily musical, but also painting, of Zbignew Bujarski. Although the author's main interest is the work of art: music and painting, the case of the composer-painter is considered to be important, to a greater extent than usual, the problem of the artist's personality. Thus, creativity remains in a constant relationship to personality.
Identifier: 8387182648
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Art Now
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- 81 Artists at the Rise of the New Millenium
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Annotation: Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years
Identifier: 3822840939
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Defining the semiotic animal
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Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
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Graphic design now
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Annotation: The book shows examples of current trends in graphic design, covering content from branding and packaging to web design
Identifier: 382284778X
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Music in the Intertextual Era
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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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National signs: Estonian identity in performance
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 369-378
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.06
Song and significance
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Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation
Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.
Identifier: 9042016876
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Staging national identities in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 425-472
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.09
Von Krahl Theatre revisiting Estonian cultural heritage
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 405-423
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.08
Websites
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Annotation: A collection of websites
Identifier: 3899850505
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Семиотика в действие (Semiotika v deistvije)
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- Сборник (sbornik)
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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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New vocabularies in film semiotics
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Other title information: structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond
Annotation: A lexicon of semiotic concepts, the book defines over 500 critical terms and describes how they have been used, building a semiotics dictionary. It explores linguistically-orientated terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; and the psycho-semiology of the cinema.
Identifier: 0415065941
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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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Pure visual metaphor: Juri Lotman’s concept of rhetoric in fine arts
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 725-741
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.22
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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Transformation of public text in totalitarian system
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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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What is Painting?
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- Representation and Modern Art
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Annotation: Bell writes with a wide-ranging curiosity about what other painters have produced in the last two hundred years, giving fresh accounts of the most influential works and introducing many painters who may lie outside fashionable canons. What Is Painting? is a book for everyone interested in making sense of modern art and of the cultural debates it provokes.
Identifier: 0500281017
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Theatre at the crossroads of culture
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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Bloom's morning
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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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Moving target
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Other title information: theatre translation and cultural relocation
Annotation: This is an exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. It contains 12 essays from eastern and western Europe, Canada and the US which draw togther translation theory with contemporary practice.
Identifier: 1900650274
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The body in language
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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.
Identifier: 0304338052
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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
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Annotation: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of congitive semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz' theories of film enunciation... etc.
Identifier: 0521780055
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Web Design Index
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Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: The Web Design Index, with a section of more than 1000 designs in various styles, is a comprehensive overview of the state of art in web design. Enclosed is a CD-ROM provide a unique source of reference and a means of communication for designers, (prospective) site owners, and anyone with an interest in web design.
Identifier: 9057680181
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‘What shall we eat today, darling?’ Private — Public: Romantic genres in preschool arenas
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 55-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.55
‛This precious stone set in the silver sea ...’: Literal and figurative references to jewelry in the plays of William Shakespeare
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 77-96
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.77
Do iconic hand gestures really contribute anything to the semantic information conveyed by speech? An experimental investigation
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.1
Estrategias globales
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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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Expansivité gestuelle et graphique: Problèmes et perspectives de la segmentation du mouvement expressif
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 31-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.31
Krzysztof Penderecki's Music in the context of 20th-century theatre
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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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Publications received
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 185-188
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.185
Remarques sur la sémiotique de l’image
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 97-114
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.97
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 81-184
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.81
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 115-210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.115
Snow, Forest, Silence
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- The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics
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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
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.u
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.u
Sur l’analyse sémiotique des textes mathématiques
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 31-54
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.31
Text as a comprehension process: Toward a model of synergism
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 59-76
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.59
Towards a systemic functional analysis of multisemiotic mathematics texts
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.1
Visible signature ('Signatures of the Visible'by Fredric Jameson)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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What is literature? — A systems definition
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 43-58
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.43
‛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