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Toward an integrated definition of the literary phenomenon
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.3-4.385
Visual illusions and intratextuality in Picasso's Picassos
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.3-4.259
Visual semiotics and the sociology of communication
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.3-4.243
Semiotics, Self, and Society
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Annotation: These essays are concerned with the philosophical "category of person", viewed from anthropological and semiotic perspectives. In one sense the essays continue the Annee Sociologique tradition and the work of Marcel Mauss (1985 [1938]), whose classic study charted a comparative approach to the cultural construction of the self-concept. And in this same sense they continue also the work of Irving Hallowell (1955a,b) and his students (see Fogelson 1982), who have probed empirically the problem of how different cultures differentially encode understandings of what it means to be a self, with relative boundedness with respect to other-selves and with respect to the world of non-selves.
Identifier: 0899255604
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The Semiotics of Clothing: Linking Structural Analysis with Social Process
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 605-624
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Convention, Translation, and Understanding
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- Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
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Annotation: This book surveys theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to the discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.
Identifier: 0887066739
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Discourse of blame: Courtroom construction of social identity from the perspective of the defendant
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.3-4.261
Social meaning in the observation of goal directed action
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.3-4.243
The iconography of landscape
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Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society
Identifier: 0521324378
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Kriemhilt’s face work: A sociolinguistic analysis of social behavior in the Nibelungenlied
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.317
Paraesthetics
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Other title information: Faucault, Lyotard, Derrida
Annotation: This new study focuses on the art/literature problem in each thinker's work, and how this issue provides critical perspectives on philosophy, history, and political theory
Identifier: 0415902916
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Proxemic patterns, social structures, and world view
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.225
Sémiotique en jeu
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- à partir et autour de l'œuvre d'A.J. Greimas
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Other title information: actes de la décade tenue au Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle du 4 au 14 août 1983
Annotation: Fruit d'une décade tenue au Centre culturel de Cerisy en 1983, l'ouvrage réunit une quinzaine de contributions que sont autant de signes d'ouverture de la part d'une discipline en cours d'évolution. La mise en question porte à la fois sur les postulats (philosophiques et épistemologiques) de la sémiotique, sur ses méthodes (notament face à de noveaux domaines d'investigation comme la musique ou l'architecture) et sur ses enjeus (en particulier quant au status du "sujet" - suje d'énonciation, suject "analytique", sujet de l'interaction sociale). Avec une importante intervention d'A.J. Greimas, que répond ici, sur un ton quasi improvisé, aux questions de l'assistance. Débat avec Paul Ricœur.. The result of a decade held at the Cerisy Cultural Center in 1983, the book brings together some fifteen contributions that are signs of openness on the part of a discipline in the process of evolution. The questioning concerns both the postulates (philosophical and epistemological) of semiotics, its methods (notably in the face of new areas of investigation such as music or architecture) and its challenges (in particular regarding the status of the "subject" - subject of enunciation, "analytical" subject, subject of social interaction). With an important intervention by A.J. Greimas, who answers here, in an almost improvised tone, the questions of the audience. Debate with Paul Ricœur. (Translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572051
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Social Semiotics and Science Education
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 2
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- 217-232
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The meanings of bodily artifacts: Variation in domain structure, communicative functions, and social contexts
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.1-2.107
Semiotics and the Social Sciences: The University of California at San Diego Semiotic Research Project
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 589-602
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Arbeitshilfe für den evangelischen Religionsunterricht an Gymnasien
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Annotation: Handbook for teaching religion studies in highschools
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Interpretation and genre perception
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.133
Language, thought, and mental models
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.31
Michelangelo’s Genesis: A structuralist Interpretation of the central panels of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.1
Partaking with the divine and symbolizing the societal: The semiotics of Japanese food and drink
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.115
Plato/Freud/Mann: Narrative structure, undecidability, and the social text
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.54.3-4.351
Review article
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.147
Semiotics and legal theory
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Annotation: Semiotics and Legal Theory is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism, and construction. Jackson takes two very different intellectual traditions - structuralist semiotics as represented by A.J. Greimas and modern (mainly positivist) legal theory as represented by Hart, MacCormick, Dworkin, and Kelsen and by juxtaposing them seeks to clarify and assess their respective semiotic presuppositions, in order to lay some foundations for a semiotically sensitive theory of law. This book is designed for both jurists and semioticians. To facilitate access across the disciplinary divide, Jackson provides an abstract at the head of each chapter, which serves as both a summary and a conclusion to each section.
Identifier: 0952893819
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The Dialectical Biologist
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
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The dividing discipline
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Other title information: hegemony and diversity in international theory
Annotation: The purpose of this book is to delineate the main strands of contemporary theoretical work in the field of international relations and to speculate about the posibilities of reintegrating the field and bringing some order to it.
Identifier: 0044450001
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The structure and language of a silence
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.99
INFERENCING SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL PROCESSES FROM NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 3, Issue 2
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- 77-96
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Revolution in Poetic Language
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Notes: Originally published as La revolution du langage poetique (1984), translated by Margaret Walker, introduction by Leon S. Roudiez
Annotation: Her aim here is to investigate the workings of "poetic language" as signifying practice, that is, as a semiotic system generated by a speaking subject within a social, historical field.
Identifier: 0231056427
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The postmodern condition
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Other title information: a report on knowledge
Notes: Translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, foreword by Frederic Jameson. Originally published in France as La Condition postmoderne: rappot sur le savoir (1979)
Annotation: Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages
Identifier: 0719014506
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What is Meaning?
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Other title information: Studies in the Development of Signifcance
Notes: Reprint of the edition London, 1903, with an Introductory essay by Gerrit Mannoury and a Preface by Achim Eschach.
Annotation: In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term significs . One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as the Sense of a word, but only the sense in which it is used the circumstances, state of mind, reference, universe of discourse belonging to it. The Meaning of a word is the intent which it is desired to convey the intention of the user. The Significance is always manifold, and intensifies its sense as well as its meaning, by expressing its importance, its appeal to us, its moment for us, its emotional force, its ideal value, its moral aspect, its universal or at least social range." This facsimile of the 1903 edition of "What is Meaning" is accompanied by an essay on "Significs as a Fundamental Science" by Achim Eschbach, and "A Concise History of Significs" by G. Mannoury.
Identifier: 9027232725
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Cinders
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Annotation: Cinders is among Derrida's most remarkable and revealing of this distinguished author's many writings. While Derrida customarily devotes his powers of analysis to exacting readigs of texts from Plato to Aristotle and Freud to Heidegger, readers of Cinders will soon discover that Derrida is engaged in a poetic self-analysis.
Identifier: 0803216890
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Palimpsestes
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- la littérature au second degré
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Annotation: Un palimpseste est litéralement, un parchemin dont on a gratté la première inscription pour lui en substituer une autre, mais où cette opération n'a pas irrémédiablement effacé le texte primitif, en sorte qu'on peut y liter l'ancien sous le nouveau, comme par transparence. Cet état de choses montre, au figuré, qu'un texte peut toujours en cacher un autre ,ais qu'il le dissimule rarement tout à fait, et qu'il se prête le plus souvent à ine double lecture où se superposent, au moins un hypertexte et son hypotexte - ainsi, dit-on l'Ulysse de Joyce et l'Odysée d'Homère. J'entends ici par hypertextes toutes les œvres dérivées d'une œvre antérieure, part transformation, comme dans la parodie, ou par imitation, comme dans le pastiche. Mais pastiche et parodie ne sont que les manifestations à la fois les plus visibles et les plus mineures de cette hypertextualité, out littérature au second degré, qui s'écrit en lisant, et dont la place et l'action dans le champ littéraire - et un peu au-delà - sont généralement, et fâcheusement, méconnunes. Jëntreprends ici d'explorer ce territoire. Un texte peut toujours en lire un autre, et ainsi de suite jusqu'à la fin des textes. Celui-ci n'échappe pas à la règle : il l'expose et s'y expose. Lira bien qui lira le dernier. A palimpsest is literally a parchment from which the first inscription has been scratched out to replace it with another, but where this operation has not irremediably erased the original text, so that the old can be read under the new, as if by transparency. This state of affairs shows, figuratively, that a text can always hide another, but that it rarely conceals it completely, and that it most often lends itself to a double reading where at least one hypertext and its hypotext are superimposed - thus, we say, Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey. I mean here by hypertexts all works derived from an earlier work, by transformation, as in parody, or by imitation, as in pastiche. But pastiche and parody are only the most visible and minor manifestations of this hypertextuality, a literature of the second degree, which is written by reading, and whose place and action in the literary field - and a little beyond - are generally, and unfortunately, unknown. I undertake here to explore this territory. One text can always read another, and so on until the end of the texts. This one does not escape the rule: it exposes it and exposes itself to it. He who reads last, will read well. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2020061163
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Stories and story-time in an infant classroom: Some features of language in social interaction
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.119
A visual and temporal decoding of the pragmatic structure of Jaques le fataliste
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.273
Clouds, camels, chalk, and cheese
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.365
Elements of symbolic history, Part l
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.211
Etude des expressions mimiques conventionnelles francaises dans le cadre d´une communication non verbale testées sur des Hongrois
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.125
Information or affiliation? Effects of intimacy on visual interaction
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.29
Interactional uses of tone of voice in the United States and Japan
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.71
Laterality in negation: Are Jakobson and Vavra right?
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.57
Phytosemiotics
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.187
Postural congruence in a naturalistic setting
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.41
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.309
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.157
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.u
The golden age of semiotics according to Miguel de Unamuno
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.299
The salience, equivalence, and sequential structure of behavioral elements in different social situations
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.1
Tropes and figures: Symbolization and figuration
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.93
Sociolinguistics
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Annotation: An introductory textbook for sociolinguistics
Identifier: 0521296684
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