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Text segmentation and levels of interpretation: Reading and rereading the biblical story of Joseph
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.273
The semiotic stage
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Other title information: Prague school theatre theory
Annotation: The semiotic stage provides the first comprehensive summary of the writings that founded the contemporary theater semiotics. The Prague School theater writings are placed in their theoretical context, and intergrated in relation to major artistic areas like acting, design and dramatic writing. The influence of the Prague School and its relation to the current state of theater study are also thoroughly discussed.
Identifier: 0820418773
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Theories of literature in the twentieth century
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Other title information: structuralism, Marxism, aesthetics of reception, semiotics
Annotation: This book takes stock of the major theoretical schools which hold sway over literary studies in the present age. Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, and Semiotics are discussed in relation to their historical context and their present significance.
Identifier: 0312124481
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Un signe peut-il précéder son référent?
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.265
A Wittgensteinian critique of the encoding-decoding model of communication
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.49
A Wittgensteinian critique of the encoding-decoding model of communication
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 49-72
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-203
An entropic process
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 199-206
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-212
An introudction to systemic functional linguistics
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Annotation: Systemic linguistics is an approach which views language as a strategic, meaning making resource. This text, an introduction to this semiotic approach, focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organised to enable those meanings to be made.
Identifier: 185567209X
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Binding theory meets game theory
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 187-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-211
Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.73
Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 73-88
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-204
Contents/Sommaire
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 3-4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-201
Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
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Other title information: The European Tradition
Annotation: While being concerned with the theory and forms of early narrative, the present collection of essays presents a history of narrative rather than poetics of narrative. Rather than offering to write a coherent narrative about the historical development of narrative before " the rise of the novel", the volume presents stages in the development towards that elusive and unstable form of narrative, giving the reader what in another context has been referred to as an "exemplary history" (Reed 1981) of narrative.
Identifier: 3110138832
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Criticizing Saussure
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 181-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-210
Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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Evolution, atavism, and plain reasoning
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 207-218
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-213
Gödel's metaphor
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 5-48
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-202
Gödel’s metaphor
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.5
Jokes, narrative, and pragmatics
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 229-237
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-215
Le pouvoir comme passion
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Notes: Together with a debate between Algirdas J. Greimas and Paul Ricœur that happened in 23.05.1989.
Annotation: Nous savons déchiffrer un propos que répresente de la passion mais savons-nous reconnaître un texte que manifeste de la passion sans la transcrite? La recherche sémiotique était parvenue à un point où il lui était absilumnet nécessaire de pouvoir observer cette inscription directe du vécu, du sensible dans la trame, d'un discours donné. L'expérience la plus pure consitait à partir d'un texte émotionnellement plat, dans son écriture, et cependant captateur, pour démontrer ce qu le travaillait en sous-main,nune qualité de présence qui pertubait le texte et le troublait en profondeur, alors qu'elle était insignifiée au niveau proprement linguistique: Le pouvouir comme passion est la première expérience de mise en évidence de phénomènes discursifs inarticuláres. We know how to decipher a statement that represents passion, but do we know how to recognize a text that manifests passion without transcribing it? Semiotic research had reached a point where it was absolutely necessary to be able to observe this direct inscription of the lived, of the sensitive in the framework of a given discourse. The purest experience consisted of starting from an emotionally flat text, in its writing, and yet captivating, to demonstrate what was working on it behind the scenes, a quality of presence that disturbed the text and troubled it deeply, while it was insignificant at the strictly linguistic level: Power as passion is the first experience of highlighting inarticulate discursive phenomena. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2130465412
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Lusting for the natural sign
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 219-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-214
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
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Annotation: Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets which have gone into his work.
Identifier: 0520087836
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Signs in society
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Other title information: studies in semiotic anthropology
Annotation: How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices..
Identifier: 0253327571
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Signs of Life in the USA
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- Readings On Popular Culture For Writers
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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.
Identifier: 031209020X
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.u
Symptom, sign, and wound: Medical semiotics and photographic representations of Hiroshima
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.89
Symptom, sign, and wound: Medical semiotics and photographic representations of Hiroshima
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 89-108
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-205
The analytic telos of semiotic
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 163-180
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-209
The eyes of justice
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- Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics
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Annotation: The general topic of this book, miscarried justice, is suggested by the title's allusion to the sightlessness of th proverbial representation of justice. Viewpoints from several academic disciplines, e.g. philosophy, sociology, linguistics, criminal justice, literary criticisms, and religious studies, are brought together with theories of law. This collection is not only interdisciplinary, but cross-cultural as well. The common language is 'legal semiotics', in both a Peircean and non_peircean idiolect. This collection is a rich cross-referential research tool for investigators of law and semiotics in all its aspects. -cover
Identifier: 0820422614
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The Making of Avant-Garde
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Other title information: Tel Quel
Annotation: The present work will examine the constitution of Tel Quel's multipositionality (Boltanski 1973: 3-26), or funtion as a geometric locus, as the social creation of a symbolic good that combined all signs of intellectual radicality characteristic of the period. My aim is to analyze Tel Quel as a relatively heterogenous and changing object by exploring in a specific context its constitution, ascension, and decline as an intellectual avant-garde.
Identifier: 3110139529
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The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 109-138
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-206
The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.109
The use of the motif of the portrayed beloved in the novels of Michel Tournier
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 139-156
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.139
The use of the motif of the portrayed beloved in the novels of Michel Tournier
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 139-156
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-207
Abstract deixis
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.5
Adorno und Derrida
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Other title information: Oder Wo Liegt Das Ende Der Moderne?
Annotation: Der erste tell der Arbeit untersucht Derridas Dissemination und Adornos Asthetische Theorie in bezug auf deren angaben zur Asthetik. Im zweiten teil der arbeit geht es dann um die Andwendungen dieser Theorien, wobei Adornos Essays uber Stefan George und Derridas Text zur Lyrik Paul Celans, Schibboleth, diakritisch uberpruft werden.
Identifier: 0820420255
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Announcement
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.180
Argumentation theory and the distance to the data
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.287
Commemorative essay. Stefan Żółkiewski: 9 December 1911 – 4 January 1991
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.201
Contents/Sommaire Volume 95 (1993)
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.403
Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.63
Entrapped by words: Semiotic studies of Thomas Hardy’s novels
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.261
Introducing Semiotics
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Other title information: An Anthology of Readings
Annotation: The purpose of this anthology is to provide students taking semiotics for the first time, as well as the general reader, with material that will give them an overview of what semiotics is an does. Classic works, such a R. Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics, C.S. Peirce, Logic an Semiotic: The Theory of Signs and S.K. Langer, Discursive and Presentational forms, as well as original pieces wirtten specifically for this antology, allow the student a glimpse into what semiotics is, who some of its founders and practitioners are, and how to think semiotically.
Identifier: 0551300044
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Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 1
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.241
Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 3: Poetical arts and metalanguage
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.3-4.253
Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 4: Context, cotext, and metatext
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.75
Literature, strategies, and metalanguage, part 2: Grammar and metalanguage
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.55
Niels Bohr’s views concerning language
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.94.1-2.5
Novel science; or, How contemporary social science is not well and why literature and semeiotic provide a cure
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33