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Semiotics of work and idleness
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.21
Towards a Semiotics of Ideology
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Annotation: The attention of this work can be attributed to a particular system of ideology that must be understood as the result of a larger project, meant to study the neo-realist Portuguese novel of the forties and fifties. This study can also, at the same time, be understood as an examination of a larger question, namely that of articulation among literary systems (especially periods and literary genres) and ideological systems. It is by keeping in mind the terms in which such articulation is possible that the recourse to semiotic theory as a foundation of this study is justified. Understood as code, ideology will be treated here as an autonomous system of signs that exists along with the literary polisystem.
Identifier: 3110118297
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Tracing the Semiotic Boundaries of Politics
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Annotation: The first versions of some of the articles in this book were originally presented at the Workshop of Semiotics of the Colloquium on Language and Politics, University of Helsinki, December 12-15, 1988, but most of the articles were begun only after the workshop. The articles are intended to be representative of the current multiplicity of perspectives in the field of language and politics in general and of the boundaries of semiotic studies on language and politics in particular. Here, both "semiotics" and "politics" are used in their broadest sense.
Identifier: 3110135337
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Name, Hero, Icon
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Other title information: Semiotics of Nationalism through Heroic Biography
Annotation: The main focus of this project, when it was undertaken in 1987, was on name as sign and hero as icon. Since the completion of the work in 1988, dramatic changes have occurred in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. Through them, one may observe the unpredictable power of signs and symbols and their profound impact on the collective psyche. Masses of people are involved in the destruction of the old icons and the formation of new ones. Here our semiotic lenses are focused on the role of symbolic, on the power of the name-sign, and on the display of its semiotic constant.
Identifier: 3110130122
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Reader Response to Literature
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Other title information: To Empirical Dimension
Annotation: The research reported here lays the groundwork for further empirical investigations of reader response. It also provides new insights into how worlds and structures relate to and reproduce our inner and outer space, how the choice of text and critical approach can predetermine responses, and how interpretation depends in part on the cultural forces we reflect and reproduce. This volume does not present a more or less random sample of texts and studies dealing with reader response. Rather, the writers were selected because of their empirical expertise, and because they approached the study of reader response from a perspective which would provide possible answers as to the nature and pattern of reader response to literature.
Identifier: 3110127644
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Charlie Chaplin
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Other title information: His reflections in modern times
Annotation: The book includes detailed studies of Charlie Chaplin's life and work, written by authors from various humanities fields
Identifier: 3110126001
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From His Symbol to Her Icon: An Analysis of the Presentation of Women in African Contemporary Literary Works
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1991, Volume 8, Issue 3
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- 31-52
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My circus fieldwork
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.201
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
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Beyond Goffman
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Other title information: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction
Notes: Based on a conference held Dec. 1987 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, India.
Annotation: This book is a collection of original articles which endeavours to expand the scope of the theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the social sciences. Most chapters take a critical stand toward his ideas while still recognizing his fundamental contribution to the field. Hence, the title Beyond Goffman. The book is divided into two parts. The first concentrates upon theory and explores Goffman's intellectual heritage (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, the notion of social situation, the relation between micro and macro levels of analysis) and also examines the way his work relates to contemporary theoretical movements (semiotics, postmodernism, deconstructionism, and feminism). The second part of the book probes the insights found in his diverse empirical studies and expands the domain of their applications.
Identifier: 3110122081
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Breaking into a ’semiotic enclave’: How art critics refer to the works of Rothko and Bacon
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.79.3-4.271
Ideology and Modern culture
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- Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.
Identifier: 0745600816
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The Matrix of Narrative
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Other title information: Family Systems and Semiotics of Story
Annotation: The study which follows proposes a reconstruction of semiotic theory of narrative in light of certain current accounts – psychoanalytic, Proppian, feminist, deconstructive – of the story-telling process. Starting from classical semiotic assumptions – that fictional narrative constitutes a discursive field rather than simply a collocation of texts –, the discussion isolates relational patterns informing various modellings of the story process, outlines a framework for integrating these into a matrix of combinational possibilities and suggests on that basis some vantage points from which to address a number of still pending issues within narrative studies.
Identifier: 0899256244
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Semiotics, Self, and Society
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Annotation: These essays are concerned with the philosophical "category of person", viewed from anthropological and semiotic perspectives. In one sense the essays continue the Annee Sociologique tradition and the work of Marcel Mauss (1985 [1938]), whose classic study charted a comparative approach to the cultural construction of the self-concept. And in this same sense they continue also the work of Irving Hallowell (1955a,b) and his students (see Fogelson 1982), who have probed empirically the problem of how different cultures differentially encode understandings of what it means to be a self, with relative boundedness with respect to other-selves and with respect to the world of non-selves.
Identifier: 0899255604
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The open work
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Notes: Translated by Anna Cancogni, introduction by David Robey
Annotation: More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.
Identifier: 0674639766
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Kriemhilt’s face work: A sociolinguistic analysis of social behavior in the Nibelungenlied
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.317
Le savoir partagé
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Other title information: sémiotique et théorie de la connaissance chez Marcel Proust
Annotation: Une analyse systématique et détailée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l'œvre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui déviole, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d'une thérie et d'une esthéque de la connaisance. La prespective adoptée, que conduit à récuser toute coupure radicale entre discours litéraire et discours scientifique, apport une contribution originale à la réflexion sure les problèmes généraux de l'épistémologie des discours. A systematic and detailed analysis of the fine strategies of secrecy and the desire to know at work between the protagonists of In Search of Lost Time, conducted in the light of semiotic theory, and which unmasks, through Proust's text, the implicit presence of a theory and an aesthetic of knowledge. The perspective adopted, which leads to rejecting any radical break between literary and scientific discourse, makes an original contribution to the reflection on the general problems of the epistemology of discourses. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572043
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Paraesthetics
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Other title information: Faucault, Lyotard, Derrida
Annotation: This new study focuses on the art/literature problem in each thinker's work, and how this issue provides critical perspectives on philosophy, history, and political theory
Identifier: 0415902916
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Report on the Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop (Paris, France)
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 675-700
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Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Jurij Michajlovič Lotman
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 65-78
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What’s in a Fairy Tale? Louis Marin’s Work with Play
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 3/4
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- 341-357
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A Semiotician in Disguise: Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Viggo Brøndal
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 47-102
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Semiotics and legal theory
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Annotation: Semiotics and Legal Theory is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism, and construction. Jackson takes two very different intellectual traditions - structuralist semiotics as represented by A.J. Greimas and modern (mainly positivist) legal theory as represented by Hart, MacCormick, Dworkin, and Kelsen and by juxtaposing them seeks to clarify and assess their respective semiotic presuppositions, in order to lay some foundations for a semiotically sensitive theory of law. This book is designed for both jurists and semioticians. To facilitate access across the disciplinary divide, Jackson provides an abstract at the head of each chapter, which serves as both a summary and a conclusion to each section.
Identifier: 0952893819
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The Dialectical Biologist
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
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The dividing discipline
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Other title information: hegemony and diversity in international theory
Annotation: The purpose of this book is to delineate the main strands of contemporary theoretical work in the field of international relations and to speculate about the posibilities of reintegrating the field and bringing some order to it.
Identifier: 0044450001
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Revolution in Poetic Language
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Notes: Originally published as La revolution du langage poetique (1984), translated by Margaret Walker, introduction by Leon S. Roudiez
Annotation: Her aim here is to investigate the workings of "poetic language" as signifying practice, that is, as a semiotic system generated by a speaking subject within a social, historical field.
Identifier: 0231056427
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Afterword: At the center of the human condition
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.323
Applying linguistic models to the decorative arts: A preliminary consideration of the limits of analogy
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.309
Functionalists write, too: Frazer/Malinowski and the semiotics of the monograph
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.131
Jonestown: A study in ethnographic discourse
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.167
Looking both ways: The ethnographer in the text
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.151
Questions for the ethnographer: A critical examination of the role of the interview in fieldwork
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.233
Signs in the field: Prospects and issues for semiotic ethnography
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.99
Some comments on the concept of the human sign: Visual and verbal components, and applications to ethnic research (A wonderful father)
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.263
Syntagmatic structures: How the Maoris make sense of history
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.287
The semiotics of reciprocity: A Moroccan interpretation
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.211
The taste of your own flesh
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.107
A framework for discourse analysis: The components of a discourse, from a tagmemic viewpoint
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.3-4.277
Body movement and nonverbal communication
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Other title information: an annotated bibliography, 1971-1981
Annotation: 1410 references to published literature in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. 12 annotators wrote the abstracts and prepared a subject index. The bibliography includes works published in six languages that are directly concerned with the psychology or anthropology of body movement. Articles or books from areas such as dance therapy, motor learning, psycholinguistics, ethology, and physical education are included only if they deal in some way with behavioural aspects of movement per se and if they are focused clearly on body language – particularly research in body language as opposed to clinical or training program reports.
Identifier: 0253341019
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Communicative acts and shared knowledge: A conceptual framework and its empirical application
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.40.1-2.45
Edgework: Frame and boundary in the phenomenology of narrative communication
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.277
Frameworks for a science of texts: The compleat semiotician
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.193
Palimpsestes
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- la littérature au second degré
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Annotation: Un palimpseste est litéralement, un parchemin dont on a gratté la première inscription pour lui en substituer une autre, mais où cette opération n'a pas irrémédiablement effacé le texte primitif, en sorte qu'on peut y liter l'ancien sous le nouveau, comme par transparence. Cet état de choses montre, au figuré, qu'un texte peut toujours en cacher un autre ,ais qu'il le dissimule rarement tout à fait, et qu'il se prête le plus souvent à ine double lecture où se superposent, au moins un hypertexte et son hypotexte - ainsi, dit-on l'Ulysse de Joyce et l'Odysée d'Homère. J'entends ici par hypertextes toutes les œvres dérivées d'une œvre antérieure, part transformation, comme dans la parodie, ou par imitation, comme dans le pastiche. Mais pastiche et parodie ne sont que les manifestations à la fois les plus visibles et les plus mineures de cette hypertextualité, out littérature au second degré, qui s'écrit en lisant, et dont la place et l'action dans le champ littéraire - et un peu au-delà - sont généralement, et fâcheusement, méconnunes. Jëntreprends ici d'explorer ce territoire. Un texte peut toujours en lire un autre, et ainsi de suite jusqu'à la fin des textes. Celui-ci n'échappe pas à la règle : il l'expose et s'y expose. Lira bien qui lira le dernier. A palimpsest is literally a parchment from which the first inscription has been scratched out to replace it with another, but where this operation has not irremediably erased the original text, so that the old can be read under the new, as if by transparency. This state of affairs shows, figuratively, that a text can always hide another, but that it rarely conceals it completely, and that it most often lends itself to a double reading where at least one hypertext and its hypotext are superimposed - thus, we say, Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey. I mean here by hypertexts all works derived from an earlier work, by transformation, as in parody, or by imitation, as in pastiche. But pastiche and parody are only the most visible and minor manifestations of this hypertextuality, a literature of the second degree, which is written by reading, and whose place and action in the literary field - and a little beyond - are generally, and unfortunately, unknown. I undertake here to explore this territory. One text can always read another, and so on until the end of the texts. This one does not escape the rule: it exposes it and exposes itself to it. He who reads last, will read well. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2020061163
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Semiotics of a literary work of art. Dedicated to the 90th birthday of Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975)
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.37.3-4.197
Introduction to the reading of Hegel
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Other title information: Lectures on the "phenomenology of spirit"
Annotation: During the years 1933-1939, the Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojeve brilliantly explicated – through a series of lectures – the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the "Phenomenology of Spirit". Based on the major work by Kojeve, this collection of lectures was chosen by Bloom to show the intensity of Kojeve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". More important, for Kojeve was above all a philosopher and not an ideologue, this profound and venturesome work of Hegel will expose the readers to the excitement of discovering a great mind in all its force and power. Alexandre Kojeve was born in Russia and educated in Berlin. After World War II he worked in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as one of the chief planners for the Common Market while also continuing his philosophical pursuits.
Identifier: 9780801492037
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A GENERATIVE MODEL OF CONVERSATION
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.21
BODY MOVEMENT AND VOICE PITCH IN DECEPTIVE INTERACTION
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.23
COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND LINGUISTIC FORMS OF FACTORY WORKERS
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.13
COLORS AND CULTURES
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.1
Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.87