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An owl and a mirror: On Bosch’s visual motif’s meaning
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 210-241
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.07
Analogical associations in the frame of a “neoclassical” semiotic theory
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 67-90
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.02
Before and after music
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Other title information: proceedings from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification : Vilnius, 21-25 October 2008
Annotation: A collection of conference papers from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification, focused on "archeology" of music and its after-life
Identifier: 9789986503934
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Cross-modal iconicity: A cognitive semiotic approach to sound symbolism
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 298-348
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.10
Dynamic instances of interaction: The performative function of iconicity in literary texts
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 270-297
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.09
From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 18-66
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.01
Introduction
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 9-17
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.00
Metaphorical analogies in approaches of Victor Turner and Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy in social interaction and dramas of social life
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 130-166
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.04
Music as sign
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Annotation: The pupose of this book is twofold: First, being epistemological in nature, it is concerned with identifying methodologically and philosophically valuable achievements of contemporary musical semiotics. The second purpose is a pragmatic one. It stems from the need to interpret the theoretical thought of Eero Tarasti. There is no doubt that today's semiotic-musical thought, in the most general terms, is dominated by two central names and the theories behind them. The names are Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Eero Tarasti. While reconstructing Tarasti's theory, I use the text interpretation method suggested by Gunter Grimm. It originaterd with the general theory of reception formulated by E.D. Hirsch.
Identifier: 9789525431278
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Mutual mimesis of nature and culture: A representational perspective for eco-cultural metamorphosis
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 242-269
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.08
Prospects of Legal Semiotics
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Annotation: This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Identifier: 9789048193424
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Re-semblance and re-evolution: Paramorphism and semiotic co-option may explain the re-evolution of similar phenotypes
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 378-392
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.12
Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 167-185
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.05
Resemblance: From a complementarity point of view?
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 91-129
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.03
Semiosis and Catastrophes
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Other title information: René Thom’s Semiotic Heritage
Annotation: The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems – from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated? Where do they come from? What kind of forces drive their unfolding? How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles? Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers.
Identifier: 9783034304672
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Semiotic modeling of mimicry with reference to brood parasitism
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 349-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.11
Semiotics of mimesis and communicative relationship among texts: Ekphrasis and replication between Hesiod and Homer
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 186-209
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.06
Пространства и смыслы
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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта
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Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9785864431627
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Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 558-579
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.09
Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 525-541
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.07
Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 423-453
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.02
Are “non-human sounds/music” lesser than human music? A comparison from a biological and musicological perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 509-524
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.06
Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 580-613
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.10
Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 542-557
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08
From biorhetorics to zoorhetorics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 498-508
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.05
Introduction
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 353-368
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.00
John Maynard Smith’s typology of animal signals: A view from semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 477-497
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.04
Konrad Lorenz’s epistemological criticism towards Jakob von Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 637-660
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.12
La coscienza di Gino
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- Esperienza Musicale e Arte Di vivere
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Other title information: Essays in honour of Gino Stefani
Annotation: Essay collection in honor of Gino Stefani
Identifier: 9789525576085
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Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 454-476
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.03
Murtuvat merkit
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Other title information: semiotiikan teoreettisen ja soveltavan tutkimuksen näkökulmia
Annotation: The work considers the fracture and transition of signs and texts - and thus also meanings - into each other. Meaning is always formed towards the future. The use of signs to convey and present meanings is already a productive process. Meaning inevitably becomes more than what is conveyed or presented. The production of meanings is also based on various structural elements, rules and practices. Static and permanent as well as dynamic and developing are in constant interaction with each other. The articles in the work represent the rich semiotics of the early 21st century. The approaches and the theories that define them are united by the glow of comprehensive research, in which the differences between sign categories and systems are understood as task-specific and contextual, not essential.
Identifier: 9789515707642
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Sign activity of mammals as means of ecological adaptation
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 614-638
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.11
Space in musical semiosis
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Other title information: an abductive theory of the musical composition process
Annotation: Space in Musical semiotsis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composisiton process, an epitome of musical signification.
Identifier: 9789525431285
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Studying the cognitive states of animals: Epistemology, ethology and ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 369-422
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.01
Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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Specialization, semiosis, semiotics: the 33rd annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 515-520
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.12
Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 522-526
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.13
Translation and semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 253-257
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.00
Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics
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Notes: Appendix: Three lectures by Juri Lotman
Annotation: This book looks afresh at the heritage of cultural semiotician Juri Lotman - the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. The author proceeds from the idea that 'intellect' is one of the central categories of Juri Lotman's semiotics. Intellect becomes an important concept in Lotman's heritage - starting with the series of lectures given by him in the autumn and winter of 1967 at the University of Tartu (the lectures are published for the first time as an appendix to the book).
Identifier: 9789949118311
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts
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- Proceedings of Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006
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Annotation: Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics in Salzburg 2006
Identifier: 9789525576030
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Homo Homini Lupus?
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Other title information: spre o semiotică a discursului politic
Annotation: "Homo homini lupus", the famous line of Plautus, univocally interpreted by philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes, Hume and others, still suggests that man is the only "animal" that attacks his fellow man for reasons other than instinctive ones. At the same time, however, the greed that turns some people into beasts seems to be balanced by opposite attitudes, synthesised by Seneca in the principle "Homo res sacra homini". Between these extremes marked by tears and love, the entire tense history of the human being unfolded. "Quo vadis, homine?", this is the question to which, in order to extinguish potential tensions, the politician owes him an answer, valuing the science of reading the signs that foreshadow the future...
Identifier: 9737303075
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La filosofia del linguaggio come arte dell'ascolto : sulla ricerca scientifica di Augusto Ponzio
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Philosophy of language as the art of listening
Annotation: A colection of essays reflecting on the work of the italian semiotician Augusto Ponzio
Identifier: 8875530653
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The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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Zoosemiotics
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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Äänen extreme
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Annotation: Miten atomi? Milliasta on avaruuden mussikki? Mita sikio kuulee? Minakalaista musiikikia tekevat robotit ja mita ovat musibotit? Aanen eXtreme on uraaurtava esitys aanimaailman ihmeista. Se luo katsauksen aanien tuottamisen historiaan, kokooa yhteen viimeisinta tietoa aanituutkimuksen, aanitaiteen ja digitaalisen musiikin ulottuvuuksista seka kartoittaa aanimaailmojen reuna-alueita tietessa ja taitessa. Teoksen hahmottelemassa aaniversumissa perinteiset kasitykset musiikista menettavat merkityksena ja lukja sinkoutuu ulottuvuuksiin, joissa korvaa ei saastella.
Identifier: 9524717131
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Épiphanies de la présence
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- Essais semio-esthetiques
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Annotation: La chamo sémantique de "présence" s'organise autour du sens d'origine: est présent ce que est là, en vivo, hic et nunc, dans une constellation deictique, saisissable par ostension. Ainsi la présence est-elle observable, sensible, pir la vue essentiellement mais également pour l'ouïe et les sens intimes, l'odeur le goût et le toucher. La présence se dit aussi bien d'une personne que d'un fragment du monde, object état de fait, événement. Mais une présence divine, mystique out spirituelle n'est pas observable: elle est réelle quoique non matérielle. D'autre part la reconnaissance ou le saisissement d'une "présence" est une affaire hautement affective: les présences sont pathémisées et jamais les corrélats d'états purement cognitifs. Notre parsours consistera à l'existence sémiotique dans sa définiton orthodoxe, cheminement ponctué par des philosophèmes que Kant, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty et Lyotard ont exemplairement dédités. Notre partipris, facilement reconnaissible, met la présence intrisèquement dans un rapport modalisé avec le sensible, avec la couleur, avec le son, la saveur, avec l'occasion de la touche. Les essais sémio-esthétiques constituant ce livre voudraient témoigner d'un immense respect pour les épiphanies de la présence.
Identifier: 2842873866
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Finland-Italy
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Other title information: a few comparisons
Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
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Il Musicista Filosofo e le Passioni
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- Linguaggio e retorica dei suoni nel Seicento europeo
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Annotation: Individando nel pensiero musicale del Seicento archetipi correnti della comunicazione passionale attraverso i suoni, il volume ricompone le fila di un dibattito ideale sull'identita del segno musicale che lo misurava con quello linguistico o con la creaziobne poetica, non senza riportarlo al codice espressivo degli animali o al canto degli uccelli.
Identifier: 8820731991
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