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Murtuvat merkit
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Other title information: semiotiikan teoreettisen ja soveltavan tutkimuksen näkökulmia
Annotation: The work considers the fracture and transition of signs and texts - and thus also meanings - into each other. Meaning is always formed towards the future. The use of signs to convey and present meanings is already a productive process. Meaning inevitably becomes more than what is conveyed or presented. The production of meanings is also based on various structural elements, rules and practices. Static and permanent as well as dynamic and developing are in constant interaction with each other. The articles in the work represent the rich semiotics of the early 21st century. The approaches and the theories that define them are united by the glow of comprehensive research, in which the differences between sign categories and systems are understood as task-specific and contextual, not essential.
Identifier: 9789515707642
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Jakobson and Peirce: Translational intersemiosis and symbiosis in opera
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 341-374
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.04
Jakobson: Translation as imputed similarity
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 315-339
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.03
Obrazy dźwiękowe muzyki unistycznej
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Other title information: inspiracja malarska w twórczości Zygmunta Krauzego
Annotation: Zygmunt Krauze is the founder of a new current in art: unistic (unitary) music. He developed this concept in the first period of his artistic work, inspired by the unistic paintings of Władysław Strzemiński. Traces of this style are also detectable in Krauze’s later post-unistic works. Unistic music is characterised by a paradoxical unity in diversity. Most of the composer’s statements collected in this paper refer to specific features of unism in music. Other, more general comments concern the essence of music, the composer’s personal stance, the creative process, the autonomy of the composer, the audience and the performers, etc. Two longer texts by Zygmunt Krauze have been quoted in full. One can be considered as a unistic manifesto, while the other is a kind of personal credo.
Identifier: 9788387182779
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Roman Jakobson and the topic of translation: Reception in academic reference works
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 271-314
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.02
Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 259-269
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.01
Translation and semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 253-257
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.00
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
Translation as sentimental education: Zhukovskij’s Sel’skoe kladbishche
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 399-416
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.06
Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics
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Notes: Appendix: Three lectures by Juri Lotman
Annotation: This book looks afresh at the heritage of cultural semiotician Juri Lotman - the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. The author proceeds from the idea that 'intellect' is one of the central categories of Juri Lotman's semiotics. Intellect becomes an important concept in Lotman's heritage - starting with the series of lectures given by him in the autumn and winter of 1967 at the University of Tartu (the lectures are published for the first time as an appendix to the book).
Identifier: 9789949118311
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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История одного текста Ю. М. Лотмана [The history of a text by Juri Lotman]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 513-514
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.11
Нескольковводныхслов [A few introductory words]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 509-511
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.10
О понятии «перевод» в трудах Юрия Лотмана [The notion of “translation” in the works of Juri Lotman]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 417-436
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.07
Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts
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- Proceedings of Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006
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Annotation: Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics in Salzburg 2006
Identifier: 9789525576030
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Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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Beethoven 3
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- Beethoven und die barockzeit; Beethoven: inspirationen, kontext, resonanz; Beethoven zwischen nord un sued
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Other title information: Studien und Interpretationen
Annotation: a compilation of three event proceedings: Internationale Musikwissenschaftliche Symposien - Krakow 2003, Warszawa 2004 and 2005 in Rahmen des Ludwig van Beethoven Osterfestivals Konferenzbericht
Identifier: 8387182621
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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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Muotokuvia
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Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita
Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.
Identifier: 9525431142
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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 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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A translation with (apparently) no originals
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 473-476
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.10
Krzysztof Penderecki – Music in the Intertextual Era
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Other title information: markedness, correlation, and interpretation
Annotation: Materials of International Symposium Krzysztof Penderecki`s Music for the 70th anniversary of his birthday. A Symposium - organized by Academy Music of Kraków, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Scinces - was held in December 2003.
Identifier: 8387182591
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On the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 205-229
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.09
Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 159-173
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.06
Song and significance
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Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation
Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.
Identifier: 9042016876
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The problem of the autocatalytic origin of culture in Juri Lotman’s cultural philosophy
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 191-204
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.08
Vietnam Tourism
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Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.
Identifier: 0789025701
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In the quest for novelty: Kauffman’s biosphere and Lotman’s semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 309-327
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.14
On translating signs
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Other title information: exploring text and semio-translation
Annotation: The book sets to answer questions regarding the definitions of text, translation and meaning, presenting a semiotic approach to the matter
Identifier: 9042016426
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Is language a primary modeling system? On Juri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 9-23
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.01
Lotman on mimesis
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 217-237
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.09
Semiotics of culture and New Polish Ethnology
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 271-279
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.12
Semiotics of guilt in two Lithuanian literary texts
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 163-175
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.06
Strange, very strange, like in a dream: Borders and translations in ‘Strogij Yunosha’
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 177-189
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.07
The myth of the nation of poets and mass poetry in Lithuania
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 261-269
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.11
Translation translation
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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Семиотика в действие (Semiotika v deistvije)
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- Сборник (sbornik)
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Annotation: The publication brings together selected articles, studies and parts of monographs on semiotics, in which the most prominent working semioticians in the world demonstrate the applied and theoretical potential of the discipline. In three sections - "Semiotics and theory of culture", "Semiotics and practice", "Semiotics", the texts of Paul Cobley, Jeff Bernard, Hugo Volley, Roland Posner, Gloria Witthalm, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Susan Petrilli, are presented. Augusto Ponzio, Patricia Calefato, Eero Tarasti.
Identifier: 9545353104
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‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 677-694
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.19
A sign is not alive — a text is
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 327-336
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.20
Atomistic versus holistic semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 513-527
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.10
Augusto Ponzio
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- bibliografia e letture critiche
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Annotation: A collection of Augusto Ponzio's bibliography and critical texts
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How did the ideas of Juri Lotman reach the West?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 420-427
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.03
Introduction: Re-reading of cultural semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 395-404
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.01
Juri Lotman on proper name
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 577-591
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.13
Lotman and cultural studies: The case for cross-fertilization
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 429-440
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.04
M. K. Čiurlionio
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- fortepijoninės muzikos tekstas
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Other title information: Other title information (genezės aspektas)
Annotation: The purpose of this book is to reveal the genesis of Čiurlionis's piano music trxt. To that end, the general issues of text theory and the very concept of text in the paradigms of structuralism, hermeneutics, phenomenology and reception are discussed at the beginning. Next, the book defines the concept of a musical text, one of the forms of existence of a text, and reveals the essential features of a musical text, consistently revealing the genesis of the piano music text of Čiurlionis.
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Metamorphoses
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Other title information: towards a materialist theory of becoming
Annotation: This original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies.
Identifier: 0745625762
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On psychological aspects of translation
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 607-627
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.15