A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Sacrality, myth, objects: Techniques of fabrication and semiotical, anthropological interpretation of carpets and jewels from Pakistan
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 281-282
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Semiotic Grammar
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Annotation: The label `semiotic grammar' captures a fundamental property of the grammars of human languages: not only is language a semiotic system in the familiar Saussurean sense, but its organizing system, its grammar, is also a semiotic system. This proposition, explicated in detail by William McGregor in this book, constitutes a new theory of grammar. Semiotic Grammar is `functional' rather than `formal' in its intellectual origins, approaches, and methods. It demonstrates, however, that neither a purely functional nor a purely formal account of language is adequate, given the centrality of the sign as the fundamental unit of grammatical analysis. The author distinguishes four types of grammatical signs: experiential, logical, interpersonal, and textural. The signifiers of these signs are syntagmatic relationships of the following types, respectively: constituency, dependency, conjugational and linking. McGregor illustrates and exemplifies the theory with data from a variety of languages including English, Acehnese, Polish, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, and Mohawk; and from his pioneering research on Gooniyandi and Nyulnyul, two languages of the Kimberleys region of Western Australia.
Identifier: 0198236883
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Stamp semiotics: Reading ideological messages in philatelic signs
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 735-738
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The ecological foundations of iconicity
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 739-742
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The equilibrium of yin and yang and dialogics of silence: A textual analysis of a Chinese Hui narrative
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.345
The Forte Method considered in a semiological perspective
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 587-590
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The idea of a living spirit
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Other title information: poetic logic as a contemporary theory
Annotation: In this book, Paul Colilli brings a unifying perspective to the time-worn debate between rationalists and empiricists by demonstrating that ratio-logical thinking is based on, not separate from, poetico-logical thinking. Colilli sets out his theory of poetic logic through an analysis of works by a range of thinkers and writers that include Paolo Valesio, Franco Rella, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Carl Jung, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno.
Identifier: 0802041000
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The logic of architectural composition
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 561-564
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The logical and semiotic status of the canonic formula of myth
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 115-188
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.116.2-4.115
The semiotics of a phenomenological research paradigm for investigating the evolution and ontogenesis of cultural norm-systems in distributed virtual environments
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.235
The semiotics of biological functions
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 953-956
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The uniqueness of ontological hermeneutics among contemporary semiotic theories of interpretation
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 461-464
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Beyond Textuality
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Other title information: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation
Annotation: In this volume, editors want to translate the basic ambiguity experienced today by anthropologists about the identity of their discipline, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of the territory covered by ethnography.
Identifier: 3110138891
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Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science
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Other title information: Philosophy and Writing
Annotation: This collection of essays focuses of Vichian framework and its use in the context of Anglo-American scientific perspective in literature, cognitive sciences, linguistics and others.
Identifier: 3110136651
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Michel Colin and the psychological reality of film semiology
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.51
Semiological Reduction
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Other title information: a critique of the deconstructionist movement in postmodern thought
Annotation: This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmodernism in general. The critique focuses on Derrida, but its conclusions may be applied to other major figures in the postmodern tradition who espouse the variant of Saussurean semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs. This book challenges the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots, and does so on the basis of a diligent reading of central texts and an understanding of the tradition of Continental philosophy providing the context for Derridian thought
Identifier: 079142376X
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The human use of signs
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- or, Elements of Anthroposemiosis
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Annotation: An impressive synthesis of semiotics and anthropology which puts human experience in a new light. Deely gives us the foundation for a new paradigm for anthropology.
Identifier: 0847678040
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Introducing Semiotics
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Other title information: An Anthology of Readings
Annotation: The purpose of this anthology is to provide students taking semiotics for the first time, as well as the general reader, with material that will give them an overview of what semiotics is an does. Classic works, such a R. Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics, C.S. Peirce, Logic an Semiotic: The Theory of Signs and S.K. Langer, Discursive and Presentational forms, as well as original pieces wirtten specifically for this antology, allow the student a glimpse into what semiotics is, who some of its founders and practitioners are, and how to think semiotically.
Identifier: 0551300044
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Legal Construct, Social Concept
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Other title information: A Macrosociological Perspective on Law
Annotation: Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Concept, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups, and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change.
Identifier: 0202304795
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Structuring the domain of human nonverbal behavior: A biological, Popperian perspective from the field of human movement studies
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.205
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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Pandora and Occam
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Other title information: on the Limits of Language and Literature
Annotation: Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom.
Identifier: 0253349958
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Approaching Theatre
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Notes: Originally published as Théâtre, modes d'approche (1987)
Annotation: This book is concerned with the analysis of the theatrical event and of all the elements that make up a perdormance – the text, the actor, the space, the spectator, the social circumstances. Here, an international group of scholars approaches theatre – viewed in its traditional guise as a physical entertainment of a text before spectators – from a variety of directions and using different methodologies. While there is a general orientation toward semiotic analysis, historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches are represented as well.
Identifier: 0253327237
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Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev's as Well as Peirce's Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 427-454
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Changes in ideological models
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.247
Peirce and Triadomania
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Other title information: A Walk in the Semiotic Wilderness
Annotation: This study is an outgrowth of a deep respect for Peirce's thinking and a desire to understand him as fully as a non-polymath can. It seeks to explore Peirce's Semeiotic, as he called it, and to articulate how deeply his tri-relative logic pervades his thinking.
Identifier: 3110126338
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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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Sensible, logical, Godly, and sexual order in botanical practice
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.1-2.43
Bloomfield, the logical positivist
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.79.3-4.257
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 dragon and the straightedge, part 2: The ideological impetus of linear perspective in late Ming-early Qing China
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.1-2.43
A conceptual theory of state changes
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.137
A temporal reasoning cognitive approach
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.173
Agonistique et analyse dynamique catastrophiste du modal et de l'aspectuel: Quelques remarques sur la linguistique cognitive de L. Talmy
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.151
Aperçu de logique naturelle: Une alternative au traitement logico-mathématique de l’information
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.195
Artificial intelligence and sign theory
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.43
Artificial intelligence and the future of semiotics: An archaeological perspective
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.5
Cognitive psychology and text processing: From text representation to text-world
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.271
Developing a text-sociological analysis
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.75.1-2.25
Dialogic Semiotics
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 221-237
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Discours juridique, Interprétation et représentation des connaissances: les connecteurs d’inclusion
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.253
From visible to visual language: Artificial intelligence and visual semiology
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.303
Hypothèse localiste, modèles morphodynamiques et théories cognitives: Remarques sur une note de 1975
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.65
Imagination: A necessary input to artificial intelligence
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.225
Intermediate representations in the cognitive sciences
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.121
Introduction: The ’Al turn’ in semiotics and language sciences
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.1
L’abduction: Une logique fragmentaire chaînée
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.239
La dimension spatiale: Contribution à une approche comparative de la sémiotique et de l’intelligence artificielle
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.317
Lingua ex machina: Le Statut de la ’langue’ dans les modèles cognitivistes
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.201
Metaphor as polilogic semiosis
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.233