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Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 315-339
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0098
Taste and meaning
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0106
The consequences and effects of language transformations in legal discourse
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 125-148
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0003
The culinary and social-semiotic meaning of food: Spicy meals and their significance in Mexico, Italy, and Texas
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 247-269
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0108
The Dark Side of Technological Singularity: New Barbarism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The free slave paradox
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 57-74
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0054
The hidden meanings in the case law of the European Court for Human Rights
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 209-230
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0009
The Mutual Benefits of Cybersemiotics and the Field of Technology-Based Arts
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The Path to Steps to an Ecology of Mind
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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The problem of the modern and tradition
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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)
Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.
Identifier: 9789526825779
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The rhetoric of love and self-narrativesin the cinema image: A Peircean approach
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 197-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0033
The rise and fall of metaphor: A study in meaning and meaninglessness
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 419-433
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0131
The semiotics of migrants’ food: Between codes and experience
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 59-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0089
The structural properties of the anagram in poetry
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 123-164
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0158
The thematic structure of homepages: An exploratory systemic-functional account
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 105-127
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0048
The translation of food in literature: A culinary journey through time and genres
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 27-43
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0102
The Umberto Eco gaze
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 1-4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0092
Three Levels of Semiosis: Three Kinds of Kinds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Toward an embodied account of double-voiced discourse: The critical role of imagery and affect in Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 177-196
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0159
Towards a teleo-semiotic theory of individuation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 281-305
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0103
Transparent Dialogues: On Complex Affective Systems (CAFFS)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 191-207
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0056
Two assumptions in legal discourse: To answer for self and to tell the truth
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 15-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0017
Uncovering hidden meanings in legal discourse on the elderly: A semioethical perspective
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 301-321
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0018
Vistas for organized global semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 9-18
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0093
Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of<i>the other</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 75-90
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0031
Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Zero sign duality in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 209-214
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0051
(Counter-) Cultural Mechanics of Terrorism
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Other title information: The Case of Red Army Faction In West Germany During 1970-1977
Notes: MA thesis
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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 281-346
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.09
Between emotion, imagination and cognition: Play as a hybrid neuro-evolutionary concept in bridging Saussure, Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 249-268
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.07
Gustav Shpet's deep semiotics: A science of understanding signs
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 235-248
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.06
Heroizability
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Other title information: An anthroposemiotic theory of Literary characters
Annotation: It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.
Identifier: 9781501510816
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Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
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Annotation: Our relationship with "other" animals is not only becoming socially ever more significant, it has also been rediscovered as a topic for the humanities and sciences. This volume is the first encyclopedia to devote itself comprehensively to the relationship between humans and animals. In contrast to traditional introductions into animal ethics, the large-scale work does not limit itself to issues of moral philosophy but also explores the human-animal relationship from a historical, sociological, ethological and cultural perspective
Identifier: 9783837622324
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Opposition theory and computational semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 159-172
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.01
Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce
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Other title information: A Cosmology of Learning and Loving
Annotation: This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce’s evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains learning as an act of love. According to Peirce, we evolved to learn and to love; learning from other people has proved to be one of the best ways to carry out our infinite pursuit of truth, since love is the very characteristic of truth. As such, the teacher and the student practise love in their relation with one another. Grounded within an edusemiotics framework and also exploring the iconic turn in semiotics and recent developments in biosemiotics, this is the first book-length study of Peirce’s contribution to the philosophy of education.
Identifier: 9783034318822
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Sociocultural crossings and borders
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Other title information: musical microhistories
Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.
Identifier: 9786098071290
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Sociocultural Space
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Other title information: Other title information: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World
Notes: Tiit Remm's PhD dissertation
Annotation: A dissertation about the use of space-related conceptions for studying the sociocultural world
Identifier: 9789949329281
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The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 347-364
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.10
Buono da pensare
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- Cutura e comunicazione del gusto
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Annotation: Lo sappiamo: l'uomo è ciò che mangia. Ma che cosa mangia? come lo mangia? quando? con chi? E cosi facendo, che tipo i uomo diventa? Ecco una serie di domande a cui questo libro prova a fornire delle risposte. Nella convinzione che, per poter fare una buona comunicazione sul cibo, la cucina, l'enograstronomia, occorra innanzitutto conoscerne gli aspetti culturali e storici, folosofici e semiotici.
Identifier: 9788843073733
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Companion to European Heritage Revivals
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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.
Identifier: 9783319077697
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Greimas close and far
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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La Semiotica del espectaculo
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- En la Contruccion interdisciplinario
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Annotation: Este libro es el producto de un trabajo de investigación de cuatro profesionales del Arte, preocupados por entender, analizar y profundizar en el estudio del arte y, en particular, el Teatro, para acercar su trabajo al público, en general, y a todos los que se dedican a la creación y práctica del arte escénico.
Identifier: 9786075131122
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Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics
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Annotation: This book presents a functional view of semiotics considering language as a system of signs. In such a means- and ends-oriented perspective, the signs as meaning-bearers are detached, both in concrete and mental existence modes, from their meanings or objects of reference. Some relevant words on the genesis of the author’s contribution to the development of semiotic thought will also include his indebtedness to his preceptors, teachers, friends and colleagues. Preliminary outlines for their foundation have been developed since the late 197os and 1980s in the Department of General Linguistics at Wrocław. Subsequent work on the following theme continued in the Institute of English Philology at Opole and in the School of English at Poznań, over the last five years, has contributed to its present state.
Identifier: 9788360097243
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Lotmanian explosion: From peripheral space to dislocated time
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 7-30
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.01
Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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Philosophies of Performance
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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.
Identifier: 9525431371
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Semiotic models of legal argumentation
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Notes: Articles included: Charles Sanders Peirce, A Mastermind of (Legal) Arguments (2012), On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law (2011), The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning (2012), The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice (2013), The Splendors and MIseries of Constitutional Reasoning in Times of Global Crisis: A Critical look from the Realist Perspectives of Semiotics (2013)
Annotation: The present doctoral dissertation is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism and construction, and this is the result of a project conceived ten years ago. We have taken different traditions of legal reasoning, and by juxtaposing them have sought to clarify and assess semiotic presuppositions, in order to outline a theoretical framework of legal semiotics that would help to lay the foundations for semiotic theory of legal argumentation. These semiotic presuppositions have been the object of our study at the University of Tartu since our bachelor's thesis (defended in 2001) and master's thesis (defended in 2006). Our interest in legal semiotics was motivated by a very strong sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional methods and paradigms of contemporary jurisprudence, especially with those ones of legal argumentation. Traditional jurisprudence committed to a model of legal unity, does not for the most part seeks to describe how the views of legal actors interact with the views of other legal actors/participants of legal discourse in real situations of legal communication. Thus, it was the consideration of legal communication as a semiotic activity that caused us to doubt that law could be conceived in terms of traditional legal concepts. Legal semiotics can be regarded as a major advance because it debunks the prevailing assumptions about the nature of legal reasoning and replaces them with what seems a far superior explanation. The main scientific objectives of this dissertation can be briefly formulated as follows: 1) to develop a conceptual framework for practical handling of complex problems of legal argumentation as they occur in the stages of legal communication; 2) to assess issues of compatibility/conflict between existing methods of legal reasoning and our semiotic model of legal reasoning; 3) to bridge the compatible aspects of different theories/models of legal argumentation to establish a generalizable model of legal argumentation.
Identifier: 9789949325016
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Semiotics of “the fourth generation” – an unfinished project?
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 137-146
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.06