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(Auto)Biography as a Musicological Discourse
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- The Ninth International Conference
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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union
Identifier: 9788660510275
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Analogical associations in the frame of a “neoclassical” semiotic theory
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 67-90
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.02
Music as sign
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Annotation: The pupose of this book is twofold: First, being epistemological in nature, it is concerned with identifying methodologically and philosophically valuable achievements of contemporary musical semiotics. The second purpose is a pragmatic one. It stems from the need to interpret the theoretical thought of Eero Tarasti. There is no doubt that today's semiotic-musical thought, in the most general terms, is dominated by two central names and the theories behind them. The names are Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Eero Tarasti. While reconstructing Tarasti's theory, I use the text interpretation method suggested by Gunter Grimm. It originaterd with the general theory of reception formulated by E.D. Hirsch.
Identifier: 9789525431278
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Prospects of Legal Semiotics
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Annotation: This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Identifier: 9789048193424
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Understanding Morphology
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Annotation: Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a variety of languages.
Identifier: 9780340950012
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Пространства и смыслы
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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта
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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: 9785864431627
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Are “non-human sounds/music” lesser than human music? A comparison from a biological and musicological perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 509-524
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.06
Konrad Lorenz’s epistemological criticism towards Jakob von Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 637-660
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.12
Sign activity of mammals as means of ecological adaptation
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 614-638
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.11
The Parallax View
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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Hints and guesses: Legal modes of semio-logical reasoning
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 239-272
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.01
The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 27-52
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.02
Systems of musical sense
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- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
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The Eternal Question: Biological variations on a Platonic dialogue
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 329-362
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.15
Uexküll and contemporary biology: Some methodological reconsiderations
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 169-186
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.07
Movement and Poetic Rhythm
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- Uncovering the Musical Signification of Poetic Discourse via The Temporal Dimension of the Sign
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Annotation: The musical sense in both poetry and music is fundamentally temporal. The question is not whether music is a language or whether language is music, but rather how the 'musicality' of language signifies. The musical sense of poetry is not only heard but it is also felt. In order to deal with these problems the author, Drina Hocevar, from Venezuela, has elaborated a highly original model. She tries to understand the temporal movement as a generative process, deeply rooted in the ontology of our being.
Identifier: 9525431063
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Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 271-282
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.16
Does “quorum sensing” imply a new type of biological information?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 221-243
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.13
Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 183-200
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.10
Is cultural logic an appropriate concept? A semiotic perspective on the study of culture and logic
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 455-464
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.06
On psychological aspects of translation
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 607-627
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.15
Pragmatism and the forms of sense
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Other title information: language, perception, technics
Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.
Identifier: 027102223X
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Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology
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Annotation: This book is about biosemiotics - a paradigm for both biological and semiotic thinking - as approached through the work of one of its pioneers, Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Identifier: 9985566327
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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
Metamorfozele lumini
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Other title information: biofotonica, stiinta a complexitatii
Annotation: This book is an attempt to create an interdisciplinary perspective to light as a physical and biological henomenon.
Identifier: 9739899765
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On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 83-106
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
Propedeutica della traduzione
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Other title information: Corso Introduttivo con tavole sinottiche
Annotation: Per imparare a tradurre occorre molta esperienza ma l'attivià practica va fin dall'inizio inquadrata in un contesto teorico di riferimento che fornisca alcuno principi metodologici. Questo volume rispomde a tale esigenza collocandosi al livellos preparatorio delgli studi universitari nel campo della traduzione. Learning to translate requires a lot of experience, but the practical activity must be framed from the beginning in a theoretical context of reference that provides some methodological principles. This volume responds to this need by placing itself at the preparatory level of university studies in the field of translation. (translated with google translate)
Identifier: 8820329352
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An Anthropology of The European Union
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- Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe
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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union
Identifier: 1859733247
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La Traduzione
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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The Forms of Meaning
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Other title information: Modeling System Theory and Semiotic Analysis
Annotation: This book presents a methodological framework, developed from the field of biosemiotics, for studying semiotic phenomena as modeling processes. It presents a descriptive system for uniting semiotics and biology so that the "modeling instinct" can be studied in terms of its manifestations in various species. The book is written in an accessible textbook style, and can thus be used as a manual by both professional semioticians and students taking courses in semiotics, biology, and the communication sciences. It is composed in such a way that a broad readership can appreciate the fascinating research going on in a relatively unknown area of interdisciplinary study.
Identifier: 3110167514
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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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Two notorious gentlemen: Haider and Le Pen. Comparing their political discourse — A semiological viewpoint
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 499-512
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.499
A note on the semiotics of biological mimicry
In: Sign System Studies 1999, Volume 27
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- 139-147
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1999.27.07
A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 415-432
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.415
The biological basis of Victoria Welby’s significs
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 23-66
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.23
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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Claudia Gonzalez Costanzo
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Communism national & international
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Annotation: This book addresses the old but controversial question about the extent of uniformity in world communism. Traditional themes like the general party line and the role of prominent personalities are examined from post Cold War perspectives. From political and organisational questions the approach is extended to ideological, cultural and social aspects.
Identifier: 9517100795
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Frame images: Towards a semiotics of collective memory
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-40
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.1-2.1
Metonymy, metaphor, and category: Logic versus semantics
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 41-88
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.1-2.41
Review article
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 113-191
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.1-2.113
Valeurs, émotions, sentiments et crise
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 89-112
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.1-2.89
Introduction to a semiological model of musical time
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 663-666
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Logic in view of imprecision information
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 817-820
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Logical and methodological presumptions of Ajdukiewicz’s and Kripke-Putnam’s conceptions of meaning
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 883-886
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Meaning and value of information in biological systems
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 973-976