A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Muotokuvia
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Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita
Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.
Identifier: 9525431142
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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Zbigniew Bujarski
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Other title information: Twórczość i osobowość
Annotation: The presented book is mainly devoted to the work, primarily musical, but also painting, of Zbignew Bujarski. Although the author's main interest is the work of art: music and painting, the case of the composer-painter is considered to be important, to a greater extent than usual, the problem of the artist's personality. Thus, creativity remains in a constant relationship to personality.
Identifier: 8387182648
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Art Now
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- 81 Artists at the Rise of the New Millenium
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- 2nd edition
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Annotation: Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years
Identifier: 3822840939
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Basics of Semiotics
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- 4 edition
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Semiootika alused
Annotation: Deely's objective is to distil common elements of semiosis from the whole continuum of animate reality (from the plant world to human beings) in order to set up a tagonomy of notions, principles and procedures for understanding the uniqueness of human semiosis.
Identifier: 9949110866
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De la întuneric la lumină
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Other title information: semiotica iesirii din păcatul originar
Annotation: To outline a semiotics of the original sin of falling into the temptation of lying, disobedience and betrayal, a sin whose signs still disturb the life of the human being, is the primary goal of this book. To come out of the darkness of error, to enter the light of the meaning found through the image and likeness of the Primordial Truth, is defined as an aspiration following a trial given with joy to all who are open to wisdom and love.
Identifier: 9737300009
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Defining the semiotic animal
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Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
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From globality to partiality: Semiotic practices of resistance to the discourse of war
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 317-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.04
Graphic design now
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Annotation: The book shows examples of current trends in graphic design, covering content from branding and packaging to web design
Identifier: 382284778X
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Music in the Intertextual Era
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Other title information: markedness, correlation, and interpretation
Annotation: Materials of International Symposium Krzysztof Penderecki`s Music for the 70th anniversary of his birthday. A Symposium - organized by Academy Music of Kraków, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Scinces - was held in December 2003.
Identifier: 8387182591
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Mimikri Kui Kommunikatsiooni-Semiotiline Fenomen
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Notes: The title in English - Mimicry as a communication semiotic phenomenon
Annotation: Timo Maran's PhD Dissertation, studying the phenomenon of mimicry in from a biosemiotic standpoint.
Identifier: 9949110912
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Perceptographic code in visual culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 137-158
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.05
Percorsi della semiotica
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Annotation: La semiotica, da una parte considerata nei suoi orientamentri configurazioni e possibilità future, dall'atra queale prospettiva per affrontare le quiestioni fondamentali del rapporto tra sefni, comportamenti e volori ein cui concretamente sussiste il soggetto individuale nell'attuale contesto della communicazione. Soggetto, segno, corpo; conoscenza, libertà, responsabilità; dialogo e significazione; ideaologia e riporducione sociale; ospitalità e differenza culturale; technologie e comunicazione; globalizazione e migrazione; interpretazione e traduzione; semiotica e sintomatologia sociale.
Identifier: 8875810087
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Semiotics of Light
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Other title information: An integrative approach to human archetypal roots
Annotation: Inside the pages of this book we have holographically integrated the human world genesis by "WORLD-LIGHT". It is the generative sign by which the colors were spread throughout the world, it is the sign of the creative "image and alikeness" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love both his / her fellow beings, cosmos and God. "LIGHT OF LIGHT", the metaphysics of physics...
Identifier: 9738518059
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Song and significance
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Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation
Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.
Identifier: 9042016876
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Staging national identities in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 425-472
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.09
Vietnam Tourism
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Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.
Identifier: 0789025701
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Websites
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- 100% loaded
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Annotation: A collection of websites
Identifier: 3899850505
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Signs and the design of life – Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 379-383
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
Systems of musical sense
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- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
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The musical circle: The umwelt theory, as applied to zoomusicology
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 229-252
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.10
The ontology of espionage in reality and fiction: A case study on iconicity
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 133-162
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.05
Семиотика в действие (Semiotika v deistvije)
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- Сборник (sbornik)
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Annotation: The publication brings together selected articles, studies and parts of monographs on semiotics, in which the most prominent working semioticians in the world demonstrate the applied and theoretical potential of the discipline. In three sections - "Semiotics and theory of culture", "Semiotics and practice", "Semiotics", the texts of Paul Cobley, Jeff Bernard, Hugo Volley, Roland Posner, Gloria Witthalm, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Susan Petrilli, are presented. Augusto Ponzio, Patricia Calefato, Eero Tarasti.
Identifier: 9545353104
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Copenhagen, Tartu, world: Gatherings in biosemiotics 2002
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 773-775
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.25
New vocabularies in film semiotics
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Other title information: structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond
Annotation: A lexicon of semiotic concepts, the book defines over 500 critical terms and describes how they have been used, building a semiotics dictionary. It explores linguistically-orientated terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; and the psycho-semiology of the cinema.
Identifier: 0415065941
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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
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- 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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Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology
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Annotation: This book is about biosemiotics - a paradigm for both biological and semiotic thinking - as approached through the work of one of its pioneers, Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Identifier: 9985566327
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Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod’s philosophy of modern biology
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 149-161
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.08
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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What is Painting?
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- Representation and Modern Art
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Annotation: Bell writes with a wide-ranging curiosity about what other painters have produced in the last two hundred years, giving fresh accounts of the most influential works and introducing many painters who may lie outside fashionable canons. What Is Painting? is a book for everyone interested in making sense of modern art and of the cultural debates it provokes.
Identifier: 0500281017
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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
I Quattro Elementi
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- nella Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.
Identifier: 882631411X
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Methodologies and problems in zoomusicology
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 341-352
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.20
Theatre at the crossroads of culture
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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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>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
Bloom's morning
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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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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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Reading our world
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Other title information: a guide to practical and theoretical criticism
Annotation: Reading our World is intended to be read as a practical guide to reading and appreciating good writing. It will furnish you with the practical tools you need to deal with literary analysis, including the techniques, and the terminology for practical literary criticism, as well as the broader concepts which underpin the study of literature as an art form. It will show you how to "read your world" in a way that might just change it for you.
Identifier: 9515704618
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The body in language
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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.
Identifier: 0304338052
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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
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Annotation: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of congitive semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz' theories of film enunciation... etc.
Identifier: 0521780055
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Web Design Index
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Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: The Web Design Index, with a section of more than 1000 designs in various styles, is a comprehensive overview of the state of art in web design. Enclosed is a CD-ROM provide a unique source of reference and a means of communication for designers, (prospective) site owners, and anyone with an interest in web design.
Identifier: 9057680181
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‘What shall we eat today, darling?’ Private — Public: Romantic genres in preschool arenas
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 55-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.55
‛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
<i>The Song of the Returned</i>: A two-way analysis in musical semiotics
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 261-282
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.261
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
A semiotic definition of multimedia communication
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 247-260
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.247