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On universalism in connection with the interpretation of magic in the semiotics of Juri Lotman
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 555-576
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.12
Pure visual metaphor: Juri Lotman’s concept of rhetoric in fine arts
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 725-741
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.22
Readers of the book of life
- Dependent title
- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Semiotics
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: The basics
Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?
Identifier: 0415265932
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Signs in use
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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics
Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug
Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture
Identifier: 0415262038
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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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Translation as translating as culture
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 593-605
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.14
Two approaches to the myth of city foundations: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 503-512
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.09
Umwelt and semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 33-40
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.02
Интертекстуальный анализ сегодня [Intertextual analysis today]
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 645-651
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.17
Маска в художественном мире Гоголя и маски Анатолия Каплана [Mask in an artistic world of Gogol, and the masks of Anatoli Kaplan]
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 695-705
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.20
New science
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- 3 edition
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 83-106
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
Propedeutica della traduzione
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Other title information: Corso Introduttivo con tavole sinottiche
Annotation: Per imparare a tradurre occorre molta esperienza ma l'attivià practica va fin dall'inizio inquadrata in un contesto teorico di riferimento che fornisca alcuno principi metodologici. Questo volume rispomde a tale esigenza collocandosi al livellos preparatorio delgli studi universitari nel campo della traduzione. Learning to translate requires a lot of experience, but the practical activity must be framed from the beginning in a theoretical context of reference that provides some methodological principles. This volume responds to this need by placing itself at the preparatory level of university studies in the field of translation. (translated with google translate)
Identifier: 8820329352
Status: Available
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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‘I have a picture of it’: Ethnographic / ethnosemiotic explanation of visual descriptions
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 303-330
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303
<i> <b>De ridiculis</b> </i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 291-302
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.291
<i> <b>Genius loci</b> </i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 233-242
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.233
<i>Langage, </i>an actual partner to <i>discours </i>and <i>langue</i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 487-498
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.487
A field approach to word semantics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 259-280
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.259
An early Hungarian hermetist-semiotician: János Molnár
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 561-580
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.561
Bloom's morning
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- 2nd
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Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.
Identifier: 0595167500
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Can a philosopher be without roots? A comparative study of the philosophies of John Dewey and George Santayana
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 281-290
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.281
Contents/Sommaire Volume 128 (2000)
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 611-612
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.611
Cultural borders and creation of culture
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 359-376
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.359
Ego meets Alter: The meaning of otherness in cultural semiotics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 537-560
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.537
Gesture jokes in Hungary
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 205-220
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.205
History, mentalities, justifications: The case of post-war Romanian memoirs
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 387-406
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.387
Illness as social indicator: Hysteria in Schnitzler and Freud
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 513-526
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.513
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
Status: Available
Moving target
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Other title information: theatre translation and cultural relocation
Annotation: This is an exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. It contains 12 essays from eastern and western Europe, Canada and the US which draw togther translation theory with contemporary practice.
Identifier: 1900650274
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Narrative structures in culture
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 407-424
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.407
Peirce’s three types of reasoning in a contemporary perspective
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 377-386
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.377
Preface: For Vilmos Voigt
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 199-204
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.199
Remembering the collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 435-444
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.435
Semiosis and semiosics vs. semiotics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 425-434
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.425
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.u
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 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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The mask of maidenhood: Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 349-358
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.349
The music of the spheres
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 527-536
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.527
The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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The Reagan Effect: Self-presentation in humans and computers
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 445-486
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.445
The site of interpretation
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 221-232
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.221
Towards the semiotics of translation
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 597-610
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.597
Two cultural models: The pyramid and the emblem
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 331-348
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.331
Two notorious gentlemen: Haider and Le Pen. Comparing their political discourse — A semiological viewpoint
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 499-512
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.499
Vladimir Soloviev: Pre- or anti-semiotician?
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 581-596
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.581
‛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
A diagrammatic modeling of semiosis
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 41-74
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.41