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Give Peace a Chant
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Gli stili prenatali
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- Un'estetica psicofisiologica
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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.
Identifier: 9788869922787
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Help! Is There a Semiotician on the Plane?
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 113-130
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Humanities in the Digital World / Or Digital in the Humanities?
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 69-82
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Introduction—A Manifesto For “New Humanities”
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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La Corposphère
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- Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps
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Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.
Identifier: 9783639624175
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Musical Performance As an Intermedial Affair (A Case of a Pianist)
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 83-98
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Numanities and Their Role in the Twenty-First Century: Three Questions Towards a New Era
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 49-68
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Our Responsibility to Future Generations in the Context of Ecological Crisis: Perspectives and Future Challenges
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 99-112
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Paulo Freire and Ernst Cassirer: Mythic and Superstitious Consciousness in Contemporary Academic Culture
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 357-372
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Questionable Foundations and Quality in the Humanities
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 27-48
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Semiotics and its Masters
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Notes: Authors in the collection: Paul Cobley, Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio, Youzheng Li, Marcel Danesi, Göran Sonesson, Gianfranco Marrone, Alexandros Ph. Logopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, François Jost, José Luis Fernández, Patrizia Violi, Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Ugo Volli, Farouk Y. Seif, John Deely, Eero Tarasti, Dinda L. Gorlée, Isabella Pexxini, Anne Hénault
Annotation: This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessubly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized.
Identifier: 9781501511752
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Shelter on the Mountain of God: Ernst Cassirer and the Religious Institution of Empire
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 399-425
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Some 19th Century Problems Of Evolution (1965)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Sounds, Societies, Significations
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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Identifier: 9783319470597
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Telos and Object
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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis
Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.
Identifier: 9783034320887
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Towards an ecology of mind
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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued
Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.
Identifier: 9788365621252
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Virtual Logic: The Logic of Quantum Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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“La morte non avrà signoria”: Domande per Umberto Eco
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0096
A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
A note on the meanings of junk food
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 127-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0094
A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 151-166
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
A sociosemiotic approach to the legal dispute over the crime of whoring with an underage girl in China
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 277-299
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0015
A-voiding representation:<i>Eräugnis</i>and inscription in Celan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 601-623
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163
An exploration of the semantic domain of legal language
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 187-208
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0001
Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Anthropological-semiotics of rhythm and animating modernity in China: A rhythmanalysis of Princess Iron Fan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0023
Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 435-455
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028
Are nutrients also good to think?
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 139-163
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0111
Art: A First-Person Science
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Becoming a commercial semiotician
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 345-363
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155
Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Biosemiotic Expectations
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Burying attitudes in words: Linguistic realization of the shift of judges’ court conciliation style
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 397-418
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0022
Can Pragmatists Believe in Qualia?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Column on Transdisciplinary Realism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Comparing the incomparable and legal discourse
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 5-14
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0019
Conceptual embodiment in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 215-234
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0052
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 493-538
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109
Crimes of the sign: Politics and performatives in the Treason Trials of 1794
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 231-248
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0016
Critique of the culinary reason
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 165-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0097
Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 365-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156
Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
Identifier: 9789402408577
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Deontic meaning making in legislative discourse
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 323-340
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0002
Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 307-343
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094
Does one truly need to belong?: A case for the need to meaningfully exist
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 251-257
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0026