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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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Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 163-181
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.09
Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 237-262
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.14
Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 293-312
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.17
Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 63-69
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.04
Ecosemiotics and cybersemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 107-120
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.07
Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 71-81
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.05
Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 219-236
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.13
Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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The pursuit of signs
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- Semiotics, literature deconstruction
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: Augmented edition with a new preface
Annotation: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature.
Identifier: 0801487935
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Vital signs: An ecosemiotic perspective on the human ecology of Amazonia
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 121-152
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.08
Wilderness from an ecosemiotic perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 169-186
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.10
Writing and Difference
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Annotation: Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics.
Identifier: 0415255837
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Kant and the platypus
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Other title information: essays on language and cognition
Notes: translated by Alastair McEwen, originally published in 1997
Annotation: This volume expplores how advances in the field of cognitive science can be incorporated into the study of literary interpretation. The last two decades have seen the establishment of cognitive studies as a valuable interdisciplinary approach in the humanities and beyond, However, what it can- or could- offer to the practice of literary interpretation is not entirely clear. In this volume fourteen papers by scholars from three continents address this issue.
Identifier: 009927695X
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The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 169-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169
Contents/Sommaire Volume 124 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 397-397
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.397
From Goffman to semiotic sociology
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 211-234
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.211
Le problème du lecteur dans l’oeuvre d’Umberto Eco
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 255-268
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.255
Lectures de guerre: Contribution à une sémio-histoire
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 235-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.235
Literary biosemiotics and the postmodern ecology of John Clare
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 239-272
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.239
Psychic closure: A prerequisite for the recognition of the sign-function?
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 613-630
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.613
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 299-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.299
The micro-grading of procedural words as a metric of behaviors: The evolutionary sequenceability of verbs
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 269-298
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.269
Umberto Eco
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction
Annotation: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco, retracing his impact on literary studies, semiotics, aesthetics and philosophy.
Identifier: 0745608493
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Ways of the eyes: Observing Velázquez’s <i>Las Meninas</i>
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 189-210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.189
Chance, Love, and Logic
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Other title information: Philosophical Essays
Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.
Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Identifier: 0803287518
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Ecosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 1998, Volume 26
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- 332-343
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1998.26.14
Les Universaux en musique
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Other title information: Actes du quatrième Congrès international sur la signification musicale
Annotation: L'opportunité et la valeur des textes rassemblés ici se reconnaissent à l'universalité des grands thèmes abordés, à leur diversité cohérente, à l'écho qu'ils donnent aux circonstances musicales mondiales actuelles. Les problèmes de la signification musicale sont permanents à travers toute l'histoire de la création et de l'interprétation, en ce que la musique ne se donnerait qu'à elle-même signification. Cependant, la présence, aussi évidente qu'apparemment insaisissable, d'une pensée musicale intime au compositeur, interne à l'œuvre, demeure par là même une fascination de tout auditeur, mais aussi la gageure presque utopique de toute analyse. Ces problèmes sollicitent donc une recherche et une lutte constantes pour tenter de reconnaître ou du moins d'approcher cette signification, à la lumière des démarches et clartés nouvelles. La signification musicale appelle d'urgence notre attention et se pose des problèmes nouveaux, bien au-delà de ceux des analyses traditionnelles. On saisira qu'une telle mutation des données ait appelé une vision nouvelle des Universaux qui règnent sur l'essence même d'un art organiquement, consubstantiellement uni à la perception pure et à la Connaissance. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centre national du livre et de Poly-Art international.
Identifier: 285944355X
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Semiotic ecology: different nature in the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 1998, Volume 26
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- 344-371
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1998.26.15
Abduction and comic in the sign of the three: Peirce, Freud, Eco
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 895-898
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Between signs and symbols: An economic distinction?
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1015-1018
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Fetishes, props, and prostheses — On the ecology of material objects
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 339-342
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Information, its forms and functions
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Other title information: the elements of semiology
Annotation: Taking into account the many forms and purposes of human expression and communication, this study covers such topics as: the recording of information; and the use of signs for the elaboration of ideas. The author argues that language and signs are best understood as a sort of technology
Identifier: 0773486755
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Money and the mind: Cognitive economic metaphors in Franz Kafka’s Der Prozeß
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 477-480
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Some remarks on perfect languages
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 45-56
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The Civilization of Illiteracy
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Annotation: Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.
Identifier: 3931828387
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The ecological foundations of iconicity
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 739-742
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The last word and the first Logos. John, a deconstructive gospel
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 835-838
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Beyond the symbol model
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Other title information: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language
Annotation: Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact.
Identifier: 0791430839
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Le flux et la grille
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.112.1-2.167
Predation as predication: Toward an ecology of semiosis and syntax
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.221
Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel
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- a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk
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Annotation: The most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English.
Identifier: 0802009263
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Signs Grow
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Other title information: Semiosis and Life Processes
Notes: 2nd book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)
Annotation: Floyd Merrell's second book in his Signs Becoming Signs trilogy, correlating to his approach to Peircean 'secondness', or indexicality. In its preface, Merrell describes the purpose of this book, in relation to its predecessor, Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe, to be that of a Faustian revelation. Amidst all that seems unknowable, a form, an episteme, a causal mapping, will be drawn!
Identifier: 0802007783
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A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings
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Annotation: The first work is a rev. and considerably augmented version of the author's thesis (Ecole des hautes études, Paris) originally presented under the title: Une rhétorique du silence; another version in Spanish was published under the title: Una rétorica del silencio (1984); several of the selected writings were also published in Spanish
Identifier: 3110144255
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Semiological Reduction
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Other title information: a critique of the deconstructionist movement in postmodern thought
Annotation: This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmodernism in general. The critique focuses on Derrida, but its conclusions may be applied to other major figures in the postmodern tradition who espouse the variant of Saussurean semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs. This book challenges the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots, and does so on the basis of a diligent reading of central texts and an understanding of the tradition of Continental philosophy providing the context for Derridian thought
Identifier: 079142376X
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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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A Wittgensteinian critique of the encoding-decoding model of communication
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.49
A Wittgensteinian critique of the encoding-decoding model of communication
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 49-72
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-203
Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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