A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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The mythical time in Scriabin
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1243-1246
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The skin of time — a semiotic approach to death
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 335-338
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Social Cognition
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- An Integrated Introduction
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Annotation: This comprehensive introduction to social cognition is the first succesfully to integrate the distinct traditions that have grown up on different sides of the Atlantic over the past twenty years. It guides the reader through the bewildering and sometimes contradictory array of theories, methodologies and applications, demonstrating how fruitfully the contrasting styles can cross-fertilize.
Identifier: 080398989X
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The generation of meanings in liturgical songs
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Annotation: This book is about the meaning of liturgical songs. Everybody who sings liturgical songs knows what liturgical songs is and also what it means. But when we start to talk about them, things become confused. We know too much and there are too many languages in which we can express what we think their meaning is. And what is worse, other people seem no to understand what we say and immediately reply that we may know a lot but not what they know. Then the discussion turns into a quarrel amongst people who know too much and cannot communicate what they know. A wise person may enter into the quarrel and say that communication about liturgical songs can only succeed when we sing together. Then we will sing together, confused and angry, because we now also know that the other people may sings very well, but do not understand what they are doing. This is what has been happening for decades in the Dutch churches. Perhaps we should be silent and start to look and listen very carefully to liturgical songs, while developing a language in which the songs themselves can speak, communicating what they have to say. The looking and listening will take much time and energy: there are no more easy answers. And the language will be so difficult that we are forced to be silent, waiting and hoping for a word to come. -back cover
Identifier: 9039005117
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The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
Identifier: 3110141337
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Introducing Semiotics
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Other title information: An Anthology of Readings
Annotation: The purpose of this anthology is to provide students taking semiotics for the first time, as well as the general reader, with material that will give them an overview of what semiotics is an does. Classic works, such a R. Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics, C.S. Peirce, Logic an Semiotic: The Theory of Signs and S.K. Langer, Discursive and Presentational forms, as well as original pieces wirtten specifically for this antology, allow the student a glimpse into what semiotics is, who some of its founders and practitioners are, and how to think semiotically.
Identifier: 0551300044
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Landscape
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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives
Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested
Identifier: 0854963731
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Towards a Semiotics of Ideology
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Annotation: The attention of this work can be attributed to a particular system of ideology that must be understood as the result of a larger project, meant to study the neo-realist Portuguese novel of the forties and fifties. This study can also, at the same time, be understood as an examination of a larger question, namely that of articulation among literary systems (especially periods and literary genres) and ideological systems. It is by keeping in mind the terms in which such articulation is possible that the recourse to semiotic theory as a foundation of this study is justified. Understood as code, ideology will be treated here as an autonomous system of signs that exists along with the literary polisystem.
Identifier: 3110118297
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Publications received
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.88.3-4.381
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.88.3-4.199
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.88.3-4.u
Charlie Chaplin
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Other title information: His reflections in modern times
Annotation: The book includes detailed studies of Charlie Chaplin's life and work, written by authors from various humanities fields
Identifier: 3110126001
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Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
Nomination originelle et la notion de l’interprétant: Objeux et enjeux de l’écriture pongienne
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.285
Review article
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.301
Rossi-Landi’s Wittgenstein: ‘A philosopher’s meaning is his use in the culture’
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.275
Signs Becoming Signs
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Other title information: Our Perfusive, Persuasive Universe
Notes: 1st book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)
Annotation: Signs Becoming Signs evinces a broad transdisciplinary perspective based on the thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce. The universe as a perfusion of signs incessantly spilling forth into other signs- evolutionary, processual, ongoing semiosis- resists precise conceptualization. As within St. Augustine's time, we might somehow fleetingly experience it, sense it, almost know it, but upon our attempting to say it, it will already have sublimated into unknowing: thus the breach between our 'semiotically real' world and the 'real', between our incorrigible ideals and our real capacities.
Identifier: 0253337461
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.u
The sun and the moon in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: Life, death, and resurrection
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.185
Time-binding and Native people: A semiotic interpretation
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.253
Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Reading for Readers
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1990, Volume 7, Issue 3
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- 113-116
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The Fashion System
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Notes: Originally published as Systeme de la mode (1983)
Annotation: In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine—the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion—Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."
Identifier: 0520071778
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Ritual or ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among some ordinary American families
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.75
Le savoir partagé
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Other title information: sémiotique et théorie de la connaissance chez Marcel Proust
Annotation: Une analyse systématique et détailée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l'œvre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui déviole, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d'une thérie et d'une esthéque de la connaisance. La prespective adoptée, que conduit à récuser toute coupure radicale entre discours litéraire et discours scientifique, apport une contribution originale à la réflexion sure les problèmes généraux de l'épistémologie des discours. A systematic and detailed analysis of the fine strategies of secrecy and the desire to know at work between the protagonists of In Search of Lost Time, conducted in the light of semiotic theory, and which unmasks, through Proust's text, the implicit presence of a theory and an aesthetic of knowledge. The perspective adopted, which leads to rejecting any radical break between literary and scientific discourse, makes an original contribution to the reflection on the general problems of the epistemology of discourses. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572043
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Espace-temps: Expression gestuelle du temps
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.43
Review article
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.105
Significs and Language
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Notes: With an introduction by H. W. Schmitz
Annotation: This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4, 1893), and ‘Sense, Meaning and Interpretation’ (reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18, 1896), and a selection of several noteworthy and unpublished essays. In the introduction to this volume the editor H. Walter Schmitz exemplifies how Lady Welby developed her significs in discussion and cooperation with numerous highly divergent scientists and scholars of her times; how her ideas influenced other scholars in Europe and the US; and how significs sank to near oblivion and was finally recovered.
Identifier: 9789027232755
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.u
Thought-things: Lévi-Strauss and ‘the modern mind’
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.1
Toward a poetics of comic narratives: The semiotic structure of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.75
Why do we know how to translate what?
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.55.1-2.19
Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannelI: The Time of the Sign: A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 3
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- 154-157
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From Einstein to Whorf: Space, time, matter, and reference frames in physical and linguistic relativity
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.1-2.35
Steven Feld: Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 3
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- 151-153
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Time As Method In Charles Sanders Peirce
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 1/2
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- 85-107
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Stories and story-time in an infant classroom: Some features of language in social interaction
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.119
The Empty Beat: Khālī as a Sign of Time
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1982, Volume 1, Issue 4
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- 21-45
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The Dialogic Imagination by M. M. Bakhtin
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
Identifier: 9780292715349
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We Drank Wine, We Talked, and a Good Time Was Had By All
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.243
Anthropologie structurale
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Annotation: The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time.
Identifier: 9782266139311
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Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1973, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1973.8.1.83
Les traités de l’éloquence du corps
In: Semiotica 1973, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1973.8.1.60
The Category of Time in Twentieth-Century Art and Culture
In: Semiotica 1973, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1973.8.1.1
Transformation and Transfusion of Vitality in the Narratives of Poe
In: Semiotica 1973, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1973.8.1.46
The Prison-House of Language
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Other title information: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
Annotation: Fredric Jameson’s survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.
Identifier: 9780691013169
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