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The Shared Mind
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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.
Identifier: 9789027239068
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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
At a Fair Distance
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Other title information: International Perspectives on the Risorgimento
Annotation: A collection of studies on Italian Risorgimento performed by international scholars. It offers a view "form another angle," within a context - the 150th anniversary of Italian unification - that has generally been arranged "by Italians for Italians," lacking that particular resourcefulness and often impartiality that international scholarship was able to contribute to the Risorgimento's historiography.
Identifier: 9789525576108
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Lotman’s scientific investigatory boldness: The semiosphere as a critical theory of communication in culture
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 81-104
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.03
Odczytywanie na nowo
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Other title information: Rozmowy z Mieczysławem Tomaszewskim
Annotation: Zapis 20 godzin rozmów z Profesorem Mieczysławem Tomaszewskim, wybitnym muzykologiem i autorem licznych publikacji z obszaru teorii i historii muzyki XIX i XX wieku, w szczególności chopinologii, liryki romantycznej i muzyki polskiej. Książka Krzysztofa Droby to odczytywanie na nowo samego Mieczysława Tomaszewskiego. Rozmowa dotyka nie tylko tematów zawodowych, ale także przybiera charakter osobistych wyznań.„Mieczysław Tomaszewski jest niezaprzeczalnym autorytetem w środowisku, znanym z wystąpień na kongresach, sympozjach, seminariach, z wykładów na wielu polskich uczelniach, z działań edytorskich, z wieloletniej aktywności jako genialny szerzyciel kultury (określenie Marii Dąbrowskiej sprzed 60 lat!) i wreszcie, last but not least, ze swego imponującego dorobku naukowego w postaci książek. W każdej z tych domen ujawnia oryginalną, wyrazistą osobowość. Ale mało jest świadectw i nie tak wielu świadków jego prywatności. W naszych rozmowach chodziło więc o utrwalenie właśnie tego osobistego, prywatnego tonu. Tonu jedynego, tak jak jedyną w swoim rodzaju jest droga Profesora przez życie."
Identifier: 9788322409329
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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
Semiosis and Catastrophes
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Other title information: René Thom’s Semiotic Heritage
Annotation: The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems – from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated? Where do they come from? What kind of forces drive their unfolding? How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles? Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers.
Identifier: 9783034304672
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Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 580-613
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.10
Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 542-557
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08
Mediating the 'idea of One'
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Other title information: Arvo Pärt's pre-existing music in film
Notes: Kaire Maimets-Volt's dissertation
Annotation: The principal aim of this dissertation is to examine the use of Arvo Part's pre-existing tintinnabuli compositions in contemporary film soundtracks in order to determine the aesthetic reception of this music in film art. This will be achieved primarily through film analyses that explore the functions of tintinnabuli music in film, and the expressive meanings this music is considered suitable to communicate (with).
Identifier: 9789985979761
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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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Translation as communication and auto-communication
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 375-397
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.05
The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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The origins of meaning
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- Vol. 1
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Other title information: Language in the Light of Evolution
Annotation: Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language
Identifier: 9780199207855
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Finland-Italy
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Other title information: a few comparisons
Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
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La Musique et Les Signes
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Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale
Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.
Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.
Identifier: 2296004091
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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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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Mimikri Kui Kommunikatsiooni-Semiotiline Fenomen
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Notes: The title in English - Mimicry as a communication semiotic phenomenon
Annotation: Timo Maran's PhD Dissertation, studying the phenomenon of mimicry in from a biosemiotic standpoint.
Identifier: 9949110912
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Semiosphere and a dual ecology: Paradoxes of communication
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 175-189
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.07
Mimesis as a phenomenon of semiotic communication
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 191-215
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.08
Pragmatic approaches to intercultural ethics: The basis for fostering communication among nationalist groups
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 239-260
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.10
Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 653-676
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.18
Human/animal communications, language, and evolution
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 201-212
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.11
New vocabularies in film semiotics
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Other title information: structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond
Annotation: A lexicon of semiotic concepts, the book defines over 500 critical terms and describes how they have been used, building a semiotics dictionary. It explores linguistically-orientated terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; and the psycho-semiology of the cinema.
Identifier: 0415065941
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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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Transformation of public text in totalitarian system
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Other title information: a socio-semiotic study of Soviet censorship practices in Estonian radio in the 1980s
Annotation: This study analyses the production of Soviet journalistic text. It focuses on editorial-censorship transformation in texts made during the final stage of textual preparation in journalistic institutions of Soviet Estonia at the beginning of the 1980s.
Identifier: 9512920719
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Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 263-275
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.15
Global Semiotics
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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."
Identifier: 025333957X
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I Quattro Elementi
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- nella Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.
Identifier: 882631411X
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Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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The pursuit of signs
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- Semiotics, literature deconstruction
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: Augmented edition with a new preface
Annotation: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature.
Identifier: 0801487935
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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 ‘human behavior complex’ and the compulsion of communication: Key factors of human evolution
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 243-258
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.243
The body in language
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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.
Identifier: 0304338052
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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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Web Design Index
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Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: The Web Design Index, with a section of more than 1000 designs in various styles, is a comprehensive overview of the state of art in web design. Enclosed is a CD-ROM provide a unique source of reference and a means of communication for designers, (prospective) site owners, and anyone with an interest in web design.
Identifier: 9057680181
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‛This precious stone set in the silver sea ...’: Literal and figurative references to jewelry in the plays of William Shakespeare
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 77-96
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.77
<i>The Song of the Returned</i>: A two-way analysis in musical semiotics
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 261-282
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.261
A semiotic definition of multimedia communication
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 247-260
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.247
Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 169-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169
Contents/Sommaire Volume 123 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 401-402
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.401
Do iconic hand gestures really contribute anything to the semantic information conveyed by speech? An experimental investigation
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.1
Estrategias globales
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Other title information: Publicidad, marcas y semiocapitalismo
Annotation: deSignis once again places the problem of branding and advertising on the stratospheric stage within the framework of global strategies in post-industrial societies. Many authors have deeply appreciated the importance of objects and value systems that come into play in consumer society. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the commodity has a semiotic component since the exchange of goods has numerous concomitances with the exchange of messages, an idea that was present in Marx, also in Saussire and explicitly raised in the classic texts of Baudrillard and Rossi-Landi. (translated with google translate)
Identifier: 9789876011396
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Expansivité gestuelle et graphique: Problèmes et perspectives de la segmentation du mouvement expressif
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 31-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.31
Introducere in filosofia creatiei umane
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Annotation: The message of the present volume could be summed up by paraphrasing a well-known sentence by Andre Malraux: The 21st century will be creative or it won't be! Under the sign of this forecast, the author builds his plea for a philosophy of human creation, researching in an original, integrative way, the main dimensions of the creative endeavour. Who and for whom, how and with what result, when and for what purpose is it created? Here are the questions that are answered philosophically, in order to be able to shape that optimal situation of "creative communication" that the future expects from the present.
Identifier: 9733704156
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Lotman’s communication act and semiosis
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 1-16
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.1
Play and paradox: How to build a semiotic machine
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 211-230
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.211
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 397-400
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.397