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Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 91-111
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126
Garroni, the late Peirce, and the issue of creativity
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 165-184
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0128
Image and word as forms of iconic depiction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 75-90
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0112
In the footsteps of the semiotic school of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and perspectives
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 229-241
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0065
Mapping Musical Signification
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Annotation: This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.
Identifier: 9783030524951
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Peirce, Aristotle, metaphor – and comments to Factor
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 51-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0037
Re charged emblems: Hawthorne and semiotic metamorphics
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 1-26
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0119
Semeiotic time
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 113-117
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0108
The spectrum of subjectal forms: Towards an Integral Semiotics
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 27-49
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0022
Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective
Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.
Identifier: 9783030178826
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New Localism
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Other title information: Living in the Here and Now
Annotation: This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.
Identifier: 9783030215781
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Spaces and Meanings
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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9783030151676
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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A Peirce for the 21st century
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 590-616
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.09
A report on the conference “Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature and Culture”
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 617-629
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.10
A report on the symposium “Juri Lotman and sociosemiotics” (Elva, Estonia, 19–20 May 2017)
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 178-180
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.09
A study by Umberto Eco and his colleagues on the history of early zoosemiotics: Commentary and bibliography
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 383-391
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.11
Adaptation, learning, Bildung: Discussion with edu- and biosemiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 435-451
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.02
Animal language before Sebeok
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 365-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09
Can semiotics be used to drive paradigm changes in medical education?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 491-516
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.05
Choosing and learning: Semiosis means choice
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 452-466
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.03
Eco’s “latratus canis”: A memory of the backstage
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 378-382
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.10
Founding of the French Zoosemiotics Society
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 401-402
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.14
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 343-351
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.07
On the analysis of power and politics from the perspective of Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 168-177
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.08
Passions of Our Time
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Peirce’s garden of forking metaphors
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 188-215
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.01
Returning ‘learning’ to education: Toward an ecological conception of learning and teaching
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 538-568
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.07
Text dynamics: Renewing challenges for semiotics of literature
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 143-167
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.07
The dual essence of pleasure: Willing, imagining and planning the Saussurean sublime and beautiful in surviving daunting nature and culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 44-63
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.02
The semiotics of models
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.01
Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 630-639
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.11
Umberto Eco on the biosemiotics of Giorgio Prodi
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 352-364
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.08
Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 319-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06
3D printing: Of signs and objects
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0127
About the Authors
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 445-450
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About the Authors
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 131-133
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An Invitation to Creative Reflection
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Asmuo ir idėjos
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Annotation: The book is intended to comprehensively present the most important and most important part of the theoretical legacy of the famous semiotician, mythologist, linguist, culture and society critic and essayist Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917-1992), without which he would not be what he was, is and will remain in the history of humanitarian and social thinking. – his semiotics research project and extensions of this project. The principles of semiotics and its areas of study are critically reviewed, and the philosophical and personal existential dimension and meaning of Greimas' thinking are revealed. His closest students and collaborators, as well as later followers in France, Italy, Lithuania and elsewhere, describe the most important varieties and branches of semiotics after Greimas, their current state and future prospects.
Identifier: 9786094700880
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Beyond the “Tragedy of Culture”: In-between Epistemology and Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 141-180
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Building Communication Theory From Cybersemiotics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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- 9-32
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Cassirer as Revolutionary: Semiotics as Embodied Worldview: Appreciating the Other in Ourselves
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 233-332
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Cassirer on Communicology: The Symbolic Forms of Language, Art, Myth, and Religion in Cultural Semiotics
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 135-140
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Cassirer’s “Violent Inner Tensions of Culture”: A Cultural Phenomenology of Ethics, Freedom and the Mythology of Peace
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 373-397
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Cassirer’s Symbolic Forms in Application: New Symbolization of New Thought in the Language of Online Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 427-444
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Epistemological and Symbolic Aspects of Sociological Thinking
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 333-356
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Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 181-231
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Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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Evolution and Communication: Heterodox Rethinkings
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings