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Fashion and the signification of social order
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.1
Meaning and Geography
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Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.
Identifier: 3110129566
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Name, Hero, Icon
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Other title information: Semiotics of Nationalism through Heroic Biography
Annotation: The main focus of this project, when it was undertaken in 1987, was on name as sign and hero as icon. Since the completion of the work in 1988, dramatic changes have occurred in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. Through them, one may observe the unpredictable power of signs and symbols and their profound impact on the collective psyche. Masses of people are involved in the destruction of the old icons and the formation of new ones. Here our semiotic lenses are focused on the role of symbolic, on the power of the name-sign, and on the display of its semiotic constant.
Identifier: 3110130122
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On the principle of disorder in civilization: A socio-physical analysis of fashion change
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.57
Proper names in the symbolic economy of fashion
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.31
Reconstructing Languages and Cultures
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- 2. unveranderte Auflage
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Other title information: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Annotation: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Identifier: 3883397083
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Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.109
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.u
The fabrication of the sign: On Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.15
The Other Heading
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Other title information: Reflections on Today's Europe
Annotation: Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself?
Identifier: 0253316936
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American Literature & the Arts
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Annotation: The picture of America and its arts emerging from these pages is an artful composite, no less truthful for its fragmentation and open-endedness, challenging the reader all the more to complete it.
Identifier: 9070289830
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Charlie Chaplin
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Other title information: His reflections in modern times
Annotation: The book includes detailed studies of Charlie Chaplin's life and work, written by authors from various humanities fields
Identifier: 3110126001
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Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
Cultural Semiotics
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Other title information: Facts and Facets
Annotation: This book is a collection of papers about semiotics of culture, literature and linguistics in different contexts.
Identifier: 3883398853
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Ethnic semiosis in American popular culture, 1880-1910
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.197
Nomination originelle et la notion de l’interprétant: Objeux et enjeux de l’écriture pongienne
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.285
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
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Review article
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.301
Rossi-Landi’s Wittgenstein: ‘A philosopher’s meaning is his use in the culture’
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.275
Semiotics of Cities, Selves, and Cultures
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Other title information: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology
Annotation: This is an overview of the semiotic connection with anthropology and an overview of what has been achieved in this field until now.
Identifier: 0899257267
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.u
The Empire of Signs
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Other title information: Semiotic Essays on Japanese culture
Annotation: Like Roland Barthe's well-known book, 'The Empire of Signs', from which its title is taken, the present volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture. Also like those contained in Barthes' book, the essays in the present volume are generally characterized by a mildly semioitc orientation, which means that while the authors may or may not be explicitly conscious of semiotic formulation, they are all (at least in the editor's view) interested in, and concerned with signifying (or meaning-generating) activity.
Identifier: 9027232784
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The historian in the labyrinth of signs: Reconstructing cultures and reading texts in the practice of intellectual history
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 351-384
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.351
The sun and the moon in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: Life, death, and resurrection
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.185
The thought of Mikhail Bakhtin
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Other title information: from word to culture
Annotation: Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in 20th-century intellectual history, Mikhail Bakhtin is best characterized as a philosopher of dialogue or human communication. The book approaches its subject by concentrating on problems of language and literature
Identifier: 0333556321
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Time-binding and Native people: A semiotic interpretation
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.253
Beyond Goffman
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Other title information: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction
Notes: Based on a conference held Dec. 1987 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, India.
Annotation: This book is a collection of original articles which endeavours to expand the scope of the theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the social sciences. Most chapters take a critical stand toward his ideas while still recognizing his fundamental contribution to the field. Hence, the title Beyond Goffman. The book is divided into two parts. The first concentrates upon theory and explores Goffman's intellectual heritage (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, the notion of social situation, the relation between micro and macro levels of analysis) and also examines the way his work relates to contemporary theoretical movements (semiotics, postmodernism, deconstructionism, and feminism). The second part of the book probes the insights found in his diverse empirical studies and expands the domain of their applications.
Identifier: 3110122081
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Ideology and Modern culture
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- Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.
Identifier: 0745600816
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Semiotics, Romanticism and the Scriptures
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Annotation: This book centres on Longfellow's well-known poem Evangeline, first published in 1847, and the biblical ancestry of its heroine. We shall read this romance against a backdrop of scriptural images of the model woman of the Old and New Testaments.
Identifier: 3110122243
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Brazil: A Culture in Tune with Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 123-176
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Continuing the Conversation regarding Myth and Culture: An Alternative Reading of Barthes
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 183-197
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Culture and Semiotics
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Annotation: This book is based on the editor asking 10 questions to different researchers about their perspective of connection between culture and semiotics
Identifier: 3883394211
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Erving Goffman’s sociology as a semiotics of postmodern culture
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.191
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 articulation of gender symmetry in Yuchi culture
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.74.3-4.289
The open work
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Notes: Translated by Anna Cancogni, introduction by David Robey
Annotation: More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.
Identifier: 0674639766
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Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.121
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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Deconstructing Austin’s pragmatics: ‘An idle tea-table amusement’ (Russell) or an epistemological solution to the crisis of representation?
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.7
Gender and culture as determinants of the ’ideal voice’
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.3-4.285
On the possibility of defining truth in natural language: A polemic with Alfred Tarski
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.63
Peirce and Turing: Comparisons and conjectures
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.33
Porphyre: Le regard sémiotique
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.1
Ritual or ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among some ordinary American families
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.75
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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The organization of repair in the songs of gibbons
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.89
A Juxtaposition of Two Abductions for Studying Communication and Culture
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 1
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- 81-93
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Research in Semiotics of Culture
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 601-636
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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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Art and beauty in the Middle Ages
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Notes: translated by Hugh Bredin, originally published in 1959
Annotation: In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture.
Identifier: 0300093047
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