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La Musique et Les Signes
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Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale
Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.
Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.
Identifier: 2296004091
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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 Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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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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Augustine and Poinsot
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Other title information: The protosemiotic development
Notes: A prepublication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: Explores the concept of the sign before the formal recognisiton of semiotics, focusing on Augustine and John Poinsot
Identifier: 954896466X
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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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Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 477-480
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.11
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 481-485
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.12
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
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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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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Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 159-173
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.06
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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The Fibonacci sequence and the nature of mathematical discovery: A semiotic perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 53-72
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.03
The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 27-52
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.02
The semiotic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 7-25
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.01
The semiotics of sexuality: The choice becomes the association of habits becomes the desire becomes the need
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 73-136
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.04
Thomas Albert Sebeok and Semiotics
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Annotation: Compilation from the 1 April 2005 NBU Seminar
Identifier: 9548964651
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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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La început a fost semnul
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Other title information: o altă introducere în semiotică
Annotation: This book is an alternative approach to the introduction of the meaning of signs and the process of signification. What if first there was a sign?
Identifier: 973799468X
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Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 297-307
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.13
Music notation as objects
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- an object-oriented analysis of the common western music notation system
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Annotation: This book presents a study of music notation and its computer representation. Music notation is prehaps the most complex notational system invented by a man. As a consequence, its processing by the computer poses complex, but nevertheless interesting problems. The author addresses the question of computer representation of music notation with the aid of another representation tool: object-oriented analysis.
Identifier: 952543107X
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On translating signs
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Other title information: exploring text and semio-translation
Annotation: The book sets to answer questions regarding the definitions of text, translation and meaning, presenting a semiotic approach to the matter
Identifier: 9042016426
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Semiotician or hermeneutician? Jakob von Uexküll revisited
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 115-138
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.05
Semiotics and Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 11-34
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.01
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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Krzysztof Penderecki and his music
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Other title information: Four Essays
Annotation: Angielska wersja książki Krzysztof Penderecki i jego muzyka. Cztery eseje. Uaktualniona bibliografia oraz spis twórczości kompozytora.The English version of the book Krzysztof Penderecki i jego muzyka. Cztery eseje. Updated bibliography and the list of works.
Identifier: 8387182478
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Mimesis as a phenomenon of semiotic communication
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 191-215
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.08
Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self. 1. Semiosis, modeling, and dialogism
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 25-63
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.02
Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self. 2. Biosemiotics, semiotics of self, and semioethics
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 65-107
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.03
Movement and Poetic Rhythm
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- Uncovering the Musical Signification of Poetic Discourse via The Temporal Dimension of the Sign
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Annotation: The musical sense in both poetry and music is fundamentally temporal. The question is not whether music is a language or whether language is music, but rather how the 'musicality' of language signifies. The musical sense of poetry is not only heard but it is also felt. In order to deal with these problems the author, Drina Hocevar, from Venezuela, has elaborated a highly original model. She tries to understand the temporal movement as a generative process, deeply rooted in the ontology of our being.
Identifier: 9525431063
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Semiotics of culture and New Polish Ethnology
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 271-279
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.12
Semiotics of guilt in two Lithuanian literary texts
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 163-175
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.06
Signs of Light
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Other title information: A biophotonic approach to human (meta)physical fundamentals
Annotation: We could say that inside the pages of this book we have "holographically" integrated the whole semiosis of the "world genesis by sign". This sign is the "creative sign" by which the light colours were spread throughout the world and the signs of the "creative face and resemblance" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love his / her fellow beings, the cosmos and God.
Identifier: 9738518040
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The Organic Codes
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- An Introduction to Semantic Biology
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Annotation: Marcello Barbieri sets out his theory that there are many more organic codes in nature than the genetic code. The existence of these codes can be used to explain the major steps in the evolutionary history of life, and processes like epigenesis and complexity generation in embryos
Identifier: 0521824141
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Translation translation
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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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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Atomistic versus holistic semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 513-527
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.10
Augusto Ponzio
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- bibliografia e letture critiche
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Annotation: A collection of Augusto Ponzio's bibliography and critical texts
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Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 57-100
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.04
Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 271-282
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.16
Biosemiotic knowledge — a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 283-292
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.17
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
Intrasemiotics and cybersemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 113-128
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.06
Introduction: Re-reading of cultural semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 395-404
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.01