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A methodological framework for projecting brand equity: Putting back the imaginary into brand knowledge structures
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 98-136
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.05
Communicating the ideas and attitudes of spying in film music: A social semiotic approach
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 72-97
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.04
Companion to European Heritage Revivals
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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.
Identifier: 9783319077697
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Eduardo Kohn’s guide to forest thinking
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 157-161
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.08
Greimas close and far
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics
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Annotation: This book presents a functional view of semiotics considering language as a system of signs. In such a means- and ends-oriented perspective, the signs as meaning-bearers are detached, both in concrete and mental existence modes, from their meanings or objects of reference. Some relevant words on the genesis of the author’s contribution to the development of semiotic thought will also include his indebtedness to his preceptors, teachers, friends and colleagues. Preliminary outlines for their foundation have been developed since the late 197os and 1980s in the Department of General Linguistics at Wrocław. Subsequent work on the following theme continued in the Institute of English Philology at Opole and in the School of English at Poznań, over the last five years, has contributed to its present state.
Identifier: 9788360097243
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Lotmanian explosion: From peripheral space to dislocated time
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 7-30
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.01
Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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Meaning and meaning fields: A non-dualist approach by Martin Staude
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 147-156
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.07
Philosophies of Performance
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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.
Identifier: 9525431371
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Schemata as the primary modelling system of culture: Prospects for the study of nonverbal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 31-41
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.02
Semiotic management of communicative situations: New people(s) and old methods
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 42-71
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.03
Semiotics of “the fourth generation” – an unfinished project?
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- 137-146
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.06
Ulrich Beck
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Other title information: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
Annotation: This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
Identifier: 9783319049892
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Approaching a semiotics of exaptation: At the intersection between biological evolution and technological development
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 504-527
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.07
Augustine on lying: A theoretical framework for the study of types of falsehood
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 446-487
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.05
Lotman’s tradition: Semiotics of culture from a Latin American perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 528-532
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.08
Man, nature, and semiotic modelling or How to create forests and backyards with language
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 488-503
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.06
Mixing signs and bones: John Deely’s case for global semiosis
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 404-423
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.02
Music
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- function and value
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Other title information: proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Musical Signification, 27 IX – 2 X 2010, Krakow, Poland, Volume 2
Annotation: Proceedings of the 11th international congress on musical signification ICMS XI.
Identifier: 9788362743193
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Peircean semiotics in the context of design praxis: Abduction and perception in dialogue
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 424-432
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.03
Semiotics and interdisciplinarity: Lotman’s legacy
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- 391-403
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.01
The Edusemiotics of Images
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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot
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Annotation: Semetsky’s new book offers a bracing account of Tarot semiotics in view of its deep significance for educational experience. Analyzing the symbolic language of Tarot images that express the intimations of the unconscious, she invites readers to explore novel ways of learning about the nature of ourselves and the world we are situated in. Combining thorough research with an accessible style, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for present and future generations of practitioners, academics and students across disciplines. Pia Brînzeu, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Rector of the Universityof Timis¸oara, Romania; author of Corridors of Mirrors. A sequel to the author’s Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic and Semiotics Education Experience, Semetsky’s new book presents the Tarot sign-system as a school of ethical living. Bringing the philosophies of Peirce, Deleuze, Dewey, Whitehead and Gebser in a dialogue with the cutting-edge science of coordination dynamics, she grounds the art of Tarot in the logic of signs acting across nature, culture and human mind. Building on Noddings’ “maternal factor”, Semetsky demonstrates how the lessons embodied in Tarot symbolism recover the feminine value of relations and contribute to Self~Other integration. Such is the message of Tarot images. The Image is the Message. Igor Klyukanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University, USA; editor, Russian Journal of Communication; author of A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Semetsky’s amalgamation of the techniques of visual communication with the emerging field of edusemiotics is an absolute masterpiece in transdisciplinarity. By forging diverse strands of inquiry into an overall model of how images enhance learning, Semetsky’s new book provokes us to take a fresh look at iconic information and is a required reading for everyone who is engaged with the artand science of visual semiotics at the intersection of nature and culture. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada; editor-in-chief, Semiotica; author of The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice. Finally. An in-depth look at Tarot from within the field of semiotics, a perspective that had been inexplicably overlooked until now. As a language of exile from language, Tarot cards are silent words that became images. Here is a book that turns our thirst for symbols into a learning tool. The sign sings in Inna Semetsky’s work.
Identifier: 9789462090538
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The two pragmatisms in the philosophy of Ivan Sarailiev
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 433-445
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.04
Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
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Notes: Two of the books in this collection are inherited from Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: In my thesis I present some critical commentary on the semiotic theory of Roman Jakobson. This theory I view as an effort to establish, consolidate and widen of the nomothetic principle by using semiotic terms. In my view, to describe the basis of Jakobson?s semiotic theory means to describe the basic characteristics of his use of the terms sign, code and communication. With reference to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Nelson Goodman and François Rastier I introduce three semiotic frames, i.e. the general descriptions of meaning from semiotic/sign perspective. These frames I see as a mechanism of privileging certain kinds of question with certain privileged terms, i.e. sign, code and communication are seen as models that highlight speci%c problematic areas and simultaneously relegate others. I try to locate Roman Jakobson?s theory in these frames with emphasis on the model and de%nition of sign. The concept of sign as a complex signum or combination of its components is highlighted or distorted to suit the preferences of a particular frame. The result of this work is the description of the Jakobson?s conceptual relations between semiotic terms as the consequences of attempts to establish nomothetical approach across the semiotic frames.
Identifier: 9788024433875
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A semiotic alternative to communication in the processes in management accounting and control systems
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 183-208
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.06
Axiomatizing umwelt normativity
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- 9-59
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.01
Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)
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- 105-144
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.04
Designing a semiotic-based approach to intercultural training
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- 145-182
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.05
Editors' comment
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 9-11
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.00
From semantics to semiotics: A page of early Soviet intellectual history
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 224-235
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.08
Hegemonic signification from cultural semiotics point of view
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 58-87
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.03
In memoriam Alexander Moiseevich Piatigorsky
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 388-393
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.17
In memoriam Virginia Valentine
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 263-264
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.10
Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 290-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.11
Juri Lotman in English: Bibliography
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 343-356
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.13
Lotman’s scientific investigatory boldness: The semiosphere as a critical theory of communication in culture
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- 81-104
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.03
Mapping the child’s world: The cognitive and cultural function of proper names in the book series Paula’s Life
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 224-248
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.08
On Musical Self-Similarity
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- intersemiosis as synecdoche and analogy
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Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.
Identifier: 9789525431322
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On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 145-196
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.06
On the independence of the humanities: Tartu–Moscow School and official Soviet politics of science
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 357-365
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.14
Proper name as an object of semiotic research
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 197-223
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.07
Roman Jakobson and the birth of linguistic structuralism
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- 236-262
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.09
Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 12-36
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.01
Semiotics as science
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 271-289
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.10
The institution of semiotics in Estonia
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 314-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.12
The place of art among other modelling systems
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 249-270
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.09
The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.
Identifier: 9789400713406
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The significance-effect is a communicational effect: Introducing the DynaCom
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 209-223
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.07
Time-plans of the organisms: Jakob von Uexküll’s explorations into the temporal constitution of living beings
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 37-57
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.02