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Book 2017.0

Give Peace a Chant

Dario Martinelli

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1 edition

Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available

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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest

Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.

Identifier: 9783319505374

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Book 2017.0

Gli stili prenatali

Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani

Dependent title
Un'estetica psicofisiologica

Biology / Biosemiotics Armando Editore 9788869922787 Available

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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.

Identifier: 9788869922787

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Book 2017.0

La Corposphère

José Enrique Finol

Dependent title
Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps

General Semiotics Éditions universitaires européennes 9783639624175 Available

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Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.

Identifier: 9783639624175

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Book 2017.0

Mimicry and Meaning

Timo Maran

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1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319503158 Available

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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.

Identifier: 9783319503158

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Journal Article 2017

Our Responsibility to Future Generations in the Context of Ecological Crisis: Perspectives and Future Challenges

Laura García-Portela

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2

Pages
99-112

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Book 2017.0

Semiotics and its Masters

edited by Kristian Bankov and Paul Cobley

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Volume 1

General Semiotics De Gruyter Mouton 9781501511752 Available

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Notes: Authors in the collection: Paul Cobley, Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio, Youzheng Li, Marcel Danesi, Göran Sonesson, Gianfranco Marrone, Alexandros Ph. Logopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, François Jost, José Luis Fernández, Patrizia Violi, Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Ugo Volli, Farouk Y. Seif, John Deely, Eero Tarasti, Dinda L. Gorlée, Isabella Pexxini, Anne Hénault

Annotation: This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessubly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized.

Identifier: 9781501511752

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Journal Article 2017

Some 19th Century Problems Of Evolution (1965)

Gregory Bateson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Sounds, Societies, Significations

edited by Rima Povilionienė

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Music Springer Cham 9783319470597 Available

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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

Identifier: 9783319470597

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Book 2017.0

Telos and Object

Luca Russo

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General Semiotics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034320887 Available

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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce

Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis

Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.

Identifier: 9783034320887

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Journal Article 2017

Virtual Logic: The Logic of Quantum Theory

Louis H. Kauffman

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present

Larry Richards

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
42

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980

Klaus Krippendorff, Barry Clemson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
10

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics

Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
1-42

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100

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Journal Article 2016

A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory

Hongbing Yu; Jie Zhang

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
151-166

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058

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Journal Article 2016

A-voiding representation:<i>Eräugnis</i>and inscription in Celan

Kurt Buhanan

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
601-623

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163

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Book 2016.0

Animal Umwelten in a Changing World

edited by Timo Maran | Morten Tonnessen | Silver Rattasepp

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Biology / Biosemiotics University of Tartu Press 9789949772803 Available

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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives

Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop

Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.

Identifier: 9789949772803

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Journal Article 2016

Anthropological-semiotics of rhythm and animating modernity in China: A rhythmanalysis of Princess Iron Fan

Minhyoung Kim; Sung-do Kim

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
1-34

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0023

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0023

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Journal Article 2016

Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature

Ibrahim Taha

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
435-455

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028

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Journal Article 2016

Art: A First-Person Science

Cristina Miranda de Almeida

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts

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Journal Article 2016

ASC 1999 to 2001: A Personal Account

Pille Bunnell

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
59

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

Becoming a commercial semiotician

Chris Arning

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
345-363

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155

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Journal Article 2016

Bioinformatic Egg, Biosemiotic Hen

Phillip Guddemi

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets

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Journal Article 2016

Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!

Søren Brier

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts

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Journal Article 2016

Biosemiotic Expectations

Phillip Guddemi

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts

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Journal Article 2016

Conceptual embodiment in visual semiotics

Robert M. Cantor

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
215-234

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0052

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0052

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Journal Article 2016

Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat

Geoffrey Beattie; Laura McGuire

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
493-538

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109

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Journal Article 2016

Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices

Youzheng Li

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
365-396

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156

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Book 2016.0

Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics

Paul Cobley

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Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Dordrecht 9789402408577 Available

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Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.

Identifier: 9789402408577

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Journal Article 2016

Dancing with Cybernetics - on Bridges in the Wind

Frederick Steier, Jane Jorgenson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
50

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle

Susan Petrilli

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
307-343

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094

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Journal Article 2016

Does one truly need to belong?: A case for the need to meaningfully exist

Mariana Bockarova

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
251-257

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0026

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0026

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Journal Article 2016

Embracing Cybernetics: Living Legacy of the Bateson Research Team

Wendel A. Ray

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets

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Journal Article 2016

Exploring stories

Gerald Prince

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
267-271

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0055

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0055

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Journal Article 2016

Food design: Symbols of our daily nutrition

Sonja Stummerer; Martin Hablesreiter

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211

Pages
355-369

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101

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Journal Article 2016

Foreword: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Christiane M. Herr, Thomas Fischer, Ranulph Glanville, Phillip Guddemi

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
5

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Foreword: Bateson Facets

Phillip Guddemi

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets

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Journal Article 2016

In Ranulph’s Terms

Thomas Fischer

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

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87

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Journal Article 2016

Individuating in the dark: Diagrammatic reasoning and attentional shifts

Donna E. West

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
35-56

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0057

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0057

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Journal Article 2016

Interaffectivity: Why interaction is not enough

Carlos Augusto Moreira da Nobrega

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts

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Interrelations of codes in human semiotic systems

Georgij Yu. Somov

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
557-599

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138

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Journal Article 2016

Knowledge & Complexity International Bateson Institute Column

Nora Bateson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets

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La possibilité d’une étude sémiotique des transhumanités: Une lecture d’un film <i>La Créature céleste</i>, bouddha robot coréen

Soojin Lee

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
43-61

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0157

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0157

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Book 2016.0

La triple chaîne prédicative

Gaëll Guibert | Benoît Sauzay

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Linguistics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034320979 Available

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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte

Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)

Identifier: 9783034320979

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Journal Article 2016

Leadership as zero-institution

Tuomas Kuronen; Aki-Mauri Huhtinen

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
473-491

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0101

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Journal Article 2016

Les deux barricades: Complexité sémiotique et objectivation des faits de style dans un extrait des<i>Misérables</i>

Ilias Yocaris

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
91-122

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0098

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Journal Article 2016

Letter: Gregory Bateson to Cecil P. Martin

Gregory Bateson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets

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Book 2016.0

Lietuviški natų leidiniai 1990-2015 m.

Asta Bielinskienė | Živilė Časaitė | Darius Kučinskas

Music Kaunas University of Technology 9786090212349 Available

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Other title information: Bibliografinis sąvadas

Annotation: This publication is a bibliographic compendium of Lithuanian sheet music from 1990 to 2015 compiled in chronological order and presented to readers. The difficult period of restored independence, when sheet music publishing underwent fundamental changes, brought chaos to the field of registration. The ISMN Lithuanian agency began to operate only in 1994, and some publishers even after 1994 did not register their publications with the ISMN agency. As a result, there has been a gap in the registration of publications published aborad, which were registered electronically or in a fragmentary manner. The purpose of this bibliography is to collect and systematise all information about publications of Lithuanian sheet music since 1990, published both in Lithuania and abroad, and to describe them according to international standards. (translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 9786090212349

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Journal Article 2016

Living in Cybernetics—Making It Personal

Mary Catherine Bateson

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC

Pages
98

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McLuhan’s war: Cartoons and decapitations

Peter W. Nesselroth

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
457-472

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0132

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Meaning-making across disparate realities: A new cognitive model for the personality-integrating response to fairy tales

Elizabeth Bolton

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
397-418

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0141

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0141

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