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Embracing Cybernetics: Living Legacy of the Bateson Research Team
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Exploring stories
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 267-271
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0055
Food-ography: Food and new media
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0087
Foreword: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Foreword: Bateson Facets
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Grand Hotel Abyss
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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
Identifier: 9781784785697
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In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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In Ranulph’s Terms
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Individuating in the dark: Diagrammatic reasoning and attentional shifts
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 35-56
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0057
Interaffectivity: Why interaction is not enough
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Knowledge & Complexity International Bateson Institute Column
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Letter: Gregory Bateson to Cecil P. Martin
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Living in Cybernetics—Making It Personal
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 98
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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
New Visual Hermeneutics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Reading palm-up signs: Neurosemiotic overview of a common hand gesture
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 235-250
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0053
Recollections of My Years as ASC President: 2002-2004
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Reflections on Creating a Reality: The American Society for Cybernetics in the 1980s
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Reflections on Cybersemiotic Experience in the Meta-Environment
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Remembrance of Things Past
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Rethinking semiotics: Toward a theory of intentional sign
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 167-189
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0065
Review of Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 259-265
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0087
Revisiting dynamic space in film from a semiotic perspective
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 129-149
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0050
Reviving the American Society for Cybernetics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Size and shape depictions in the manual modality: A taxonomy of iconic devices in Adamorobe Sign Language
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0049
Synchronicity as Time: E-Series Time for Living Formations
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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The Dark Side of Technological Singularity: New Barbarism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The free slave paradox
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 57-74
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0054
The Mutual Benefits of Cybersemiotics and the Field of Technology-Based Arts
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The Path to Steps to an Ecology of Mind
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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The thematic structure of homepages: An exploratory systemic-functional account
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 105-127
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0048
Three Levels of Semiosis: Three Kinds of Kinds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Toward a Recursive Theory of Everyday Double Binds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Transparent Dialogues: On Complex Affective Systems (CAFFS)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 191-207
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0056
Virtual Logic—Finite Language and the Imagination of Infinity
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Virtual Logic—George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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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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- 75-90
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0031
Waddington, Bateson, Evolution, and Cybernetics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Zero sign duality in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 209-214
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0051
Digital monsters: Representations of humans on the Internet
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 173-190
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.02
Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
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Annotation: Our relationship with "other" animals is not only becoming socially ever more significant, it has also been rediscovered as a topic for the humanities and sciences. This volume is the first encyclopedia to devote itself comprehensively to the relationship between humans and animals. In contrast to traditional introductions into animal ethics, the large-scale work does not limit itself to issues of moral philosophy but also explores the human-animal relationship from a historical, sociological, ethological and cultural perspective
Identifier: 9783837622324
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Cross-cultural Dialogue on the Virtues
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Other title information: The Contribution of Fethullah Gülen
Annotation: This book explores the development of the influential worldwide Hizmet movement inspired by the Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, known for his moderate Islamic emphasis on peaceful relations among diverse people. It provides a detailed study of Gülen’s account of the virtues and argues that they provide the key to understanding this thinker and the movement he inspired, from its initial establishment of hospitality houses through the growth of worldwide schools, hospitals, media outlets, charitable associations and dialogue centers. The book analyzes the distinctive virtues that shaped the Hizmet movement’s ethos as well as continue to sustain its expansive energy, from the core virtues of tolerance, hospitality, compassion and charity to a host of related virtues, including wisdom, humility, mildness, patience, mercy, integrity and hope. It also examines the Islamic and Sufi roots of Gülen’s understanding of the virtues as well as presents a comparative study of Gülen’s account of the virtues in dialogue with prominent thinkers of the Western philosophical tradition and the religious traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism.
Identifier: 9783319078328
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Schemata as the primary modelling system of culture: Prospects for the study of nonverbal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.02
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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Are You Stupid?
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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself
Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.
Identifier: 9781490525655
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The Edusemiotics of Images
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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot
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Annotation: Semetsky’s new book offers a bracing account of Tarot semiotics in view of its deep significance for educational experience. Analyzing the symbolic language of Tarot images that express the intimations of the unconscious, she invites readers to explore novel ways of learning about the nature of ourselves and the world we are situated in. Combining thorough research with an accessible style, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for present and future generations of practitioners, academics and students across disciplines. Pia Brînzeu, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Rector of the Universityof Timis¸oara, Romania; author of Corridors of Mirrors. A sequel to the author’s Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic and Semiotics Education Experience, Semetsky’s new book presents the Tarot sign-system as a school of ethical living. Bringing the philosophies of Peirce, Deleuze, Dewey, Whitehead and Gebser in a dialogue with the cutting-edge science of coordination dynamics, she grounds the art of Tarot in the logic of signs acting across nature, culture and human mind. Building on Noddings’ “maternal factor”, Semetsky demonstrates how the lessons embodied in Tarot symbolism recover the feminine value of relations and contribute to Self~Other integration. Such is the message of Tarot images. The Image is the Message. Igor Klyukanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University, USA; editor, Russian Journal of Communication; author of A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Semetsky’s amalgamation of the techniques of visual communication with the emerging field of edusemiotics is an absolute masterpiece in transdisciplinarity. By forging diverse strands of inquiry into an overall model of how images enhance learning, Semetsky’s new book provokes us to take a fresh look at iconic information and is a required reading for everyone who is engaged with the artand science of visual semiotics at the intersection of nature and culture. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada; editor-in-chief, Semiotica; author of The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice. Finally. An in-depth look at Tarot from within the field of semiotics, a perspective that had been inexplicably overlooked until now. As a language of exile from language, Tarot cards are silent words that became images. Here is a book that turns our thirst for symbols into a learning tool. The sign sings in Inna Semetsky’s work.
Identifier: 9789462090538
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Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
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Notes: Two of the books in this collection are inherited from Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: In my thesis I present some critical commentary on the semiotic theory of Roman Jakobson. This theory I view as an effort to establish, consolidate and widen of the nomothetic principle by using semiotic terms. In my view, to describe the basis of Jakobson?s semiotic theory means to describe the basic characteristics of his use of the terms sign, code and communication. With reference to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Nelson Goodman and François Rastier I introduce three semiotic frames, i.e. the general descriptions of meaning from semiotic/sign perspective. These frames I see as a mechanism of privileging certain kinds of question with certain privileged terms, i.e. sign, code and communication are seen as models that highlight speci%c problematic areas and simultaneously relegate others. I try to locate Roman Jakobson?s theory in these frames with emphasis on the model and de%nition of sign. The concept of sign as a complex signum or combination of its components is highlighted or distorted to suit the preferences of a particular frame. The result of this work is the description of the Jakobson?s conceptual relations between semiotic terms as the consequences of attempts to establish nomothetical approach across the semiotic frames.
Identifier: 9788024433875
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