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Semiotics and its Masters
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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
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Telos and Object
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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
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A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
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Annotation: this book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not.
Identifier: 9783034322508
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A-voiding representation:<i>Eräugnis</i>and inscription in Celan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 601-623
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163
Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 435-455
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028
Becoming a commercial semiotician
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 345-363
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 493-538
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109
Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 365-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156
Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 307-343
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094
Exemption and exegesis: Judicial interpretation of exemption clauses in England, Australia, and India
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 77-97
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0006
From Grammar to Discourse
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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
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Glocal and food: On alimentary translation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 105-125
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0099
Hidden cultures in law: Metaphor and translation in legal discourse
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 357-370
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0020
Interrelations of codes in human semiotic systems
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 557-599
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138
La possibilité d’une étude sémiotique des transhumanités: Une lecture d’un film <i>La Créature céleste</i>, bouddha robot coréen
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0157
La triple chaîne prédicative
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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte
Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9783034320979
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Leadership as zero-institution
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 473-491
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0101
Les deux barricades: Complexité sémiotique et objectivation des faits de style dans un extrait des<i>Misérables</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 91-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0098
Lost in translation: Food, identity and otherness
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 81-104
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0100
McLuhan’s war: Cartoons and decapitations
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 457-472
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0132
Meaning-making across disparate realities: A new cognitive model for the personality-integrating response to fairy tales
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0141
Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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Multiple historical and social layers of interpretation of marital rape in England
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0021
Nature and culture in visual communication: Japanese variations on<i>Ludus Naturae</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 213-245
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0145
Non-anthropogenic mind and complexes of cultural codes
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0034
Rethinking the Peircean trichotomy of icon, index, and symbol
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0134
Revisiting judgment translation in Hong Kong
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0007
Semantics for Translation Students
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Other title information: Arabic-English-Arabic
Annotation: This book is an introduction to semantics for students and researchers who are new to the field, especially those interested in Arabic-English translation and Arabic-English contrastive studies.
Identifier: 9781906165581
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Semiotics and education, semioethic perspectives
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 247-279
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0078
Semiotics of precision and imprecision
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 539-555
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0077
The rhetoric of love and self-narrativesin the cinema image: A Peircean approach
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 197-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0033
The rise and fall of metaphor: A study in meaning and meaninglessness
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0131
The structural properties of the anagram in poetry
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 123-164
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0158
The translation of food in literature: A culinary journey through time and genres
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0102
Toward an embodied account of double-voiced discourse: The critical role of imagery and affect in Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0159
Towards a teleo-semiotic theory of individuation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 281-305
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0103
Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of<i>the other</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0031
Sociocultural crossings and borders
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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
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Sociocultural Space
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Other title information: Other title information: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World
Notes: Tiit Remm's PhD dissertation
Annotation: A dissertation about the use of space-related conceptions for studying the sociocultural world
Identifier: 9789949329281
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The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 347-364
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.10
Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics
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Annotation: This book presents a functional view of semiotics considering language as a system of signs. In such a means- and ends-oriented perspective, the signs as meaning-bearers are detached, both in concrete and mental existence modes, from their meanings or objects of reference. Some relevant words on the genesis of the author’s contribution to the development of semiotic thought will also include his indebtedness to his preceptors, teachers, friends and colleagues. Preliminary outlines for their foundation have been developed since the late 197os and 1980s in the Department of General Linguistics at Wrocław. Subsequent work on the following theme continued in the Institute of English Philology at Opole and in the School of English at Poznań, over the last five years, has contributed to its present state.
Identifier: 9788360097243
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Lotmanian explosion: From peripheral space to dislocated time
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.01
Semiotic models of legal argumentation
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Notes: Articles included: Charles Sanders Peirce, A Mastermind of (Legal) Arguments (2012), On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law (2011), The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning (2012), The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice (2013), The Splendors and MIseries of Constitutional Reasoning in Times of Global Crisis: A Critical look from the Realist Perspectives of Semiotics (2013)
Annotation: The present doctoral dissertation is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism and construction, and this is the result of a project conceived ten years ago. We have taken different traditions of legal reasoning, and by juxtaposing them have sought to clarify and assess semiotic presuppositions, in order to outline a theoretical framework of legal semiotics that would help to lay the foundations for semiotic theory of legal argumentation. These semiotic presuppositions have been the object of our study at the University of Tartu since our bachelor's thesis (defended in 2001) and master's thesis (defended in 2006). Our interest in legal semiotics was motivated by a very strong sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional methods and paradigms of contemporary jurisprudence, especially with those ones of legal argumentation. Traditional jurisprudence committed to a model of legal unity, does not for the most part seeks to describe how the views of legal actors interact with the views of other legal actors/participants of legal discourse in real situations of legal communication. Thus, it was the consideration of legal communication as a semiotic activity that caused us to doubt that law could be conceived in terms of traditional legal concepts. Legal semiotics can be regarded as a major advance because it debunks the prevailing assumptions about the nature of legal reasoning and replaces them with what seems a far superior explanation. The main scientific objectives of this dissertation can be briefly formulated as follows: 1) to develop a conceptual framework for practical handling of complex problems of legal argumentation as they occur in the stages of legal communication; 2) to assess issues of compatibility/conflict between existing methods of legal reasoning and our semiotic model of legal reasoning; 3) to bridge the compatible aspects of different theories/models of legal argumentation to establish a generalizable model of legal argumentation.
Identifier: 9789949325016
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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Crossing Boundaries
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Other title information: Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family and School
Notes: editor of the series Jaan Valsiner
Annotation: Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Emphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practicies regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems.
Identifier: 9781623963941
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Lotman’s tradition: Semiotics of culture from a Latin American perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 528-532
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.08
Semiotics and interdisciplinarity: Lotman’s legacy
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 391-403
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.01
The Shared Mind
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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.
Identifier: 9789027239068
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In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.00