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A Lotmanian semiotic interpretation of cultural memory in ritual
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 157-173
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0085
From matter to form: the evolution of the genetic code as semio-poiesis
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 17-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0088
Gesture, a tool for synthetic reasoning
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 1-16
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0026
Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: a distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 125-155
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0096
Listening to Beethoven’s Ninth as communicational production
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 213-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0074
Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 63-78
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0080
Quand l’éventail du désaccord laisse parler au-delà des paroles: Etude historico-sémiotique de la légende du Coup de l’Eventail
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 193-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0036
Sense, reference, and contemporary “predicativism”
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 99-123
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0004
Speaking one’s mind: the sign as subject of interpretation in the manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce, between the theories of rhetoric and communication
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 79-98
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0086
The “empirical vocation” of the semiotics of Umberto Eco in his works on the media and mass communication
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 175-192
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0016
Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Interrelations of codes in human semiotic systems
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 557-599
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138
Non-anthropogenic mind and complexes of cultural codes
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 63-73
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0034
The semiotics of migrants’ food: Between codes and experience
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 59-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0089
Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
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Notes: Two of the books in this collection are inherited from Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: In my thesis I present some critical commentary on the semiotic theory of Roman Jakobson. This theory I view as an effort to establish, consolidate and widen of the nomothetic principle by using semiotic terms. In my view, to describe the basis of Jakobson?s semiotic theory means to describe the basic characteristics of his use of the terms sign, code and communication. With reference to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Nelson Goodman and François Rastier I introduce three semiotic frames, i.e. the general descriptions of meaning from semiotic/sign perspective. These frames I see as a mechanism of privileging certain kinds of question with certain privileged terms, i.e. sign, code and communication are seen as models that highlight speci%c problematic areas and simultaneously relegate others. I try to locate Roman Jakobson?s theory in these frames with emphasis on the model and de%nition of sign. The concept of sign as a complex signum or combination of its components is highlighted or distorted to suit the preferences of a particular frame. The result of this work is the description of the Jakobson?s conceptual relations between semiotic terms as the consequences of attempts to establish nomothetical approach across the semiotic frames.
Identifier: 9788024433875
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Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 105-144
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.04
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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Perceptographic code in visual culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 137-158
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.05
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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Organic codes: Metaphors or realities?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 743-754
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.23
Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Semiotics
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Other title information: The basics
Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?
Identifier: 0415265932
Status: Available
Signs in use
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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics
Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug
Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture
Identifier: 0415262038
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Cross-mediality and narrative textual form: A semiotic analysis of the lexical and visual signs and codes in the picture book
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-70
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.1-2.1
Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames as vital aspects of bio-semiotics
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 913-916
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L’image inscrite: code, indice, scheme
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 693-696
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The semiotization of space and dynamic codes
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 287-294
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.3-4.287
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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Messages and Meanings
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- An introduction to semiotics
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Annotation: An overview of semiotics applied to different topics, such as media, communication and aspects of everyday life like food or clothing
Identifier: 1551300273
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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
Towards a Semiotics of Ideology
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Annotation: The attention of this work can be attributed to a particular system of ideology that must be understood as the result of a larger project, meant to study the neo-realist Portuguese novel of the forties and fifties. This study can also, at the same time, be understood as an examination of a larger question, namely that of articulation among literary systems (especially periods and literary genres) and ideological systems. It is by keeping in mind the terms in which such articulation is possible that the recourse to semiotic theory as a foundation of this study is justified. Understood as code, ideology will be treated here as an autonomous system of signs that exists along with the literary polisystem.
Identifier: 3110118297
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The audience as/for Accomplice: Code-breaking in the comedy thriller
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.287
Calembours et dessins d’humour
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.1-2.73
Categories of codes
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.1-2.41
Half a cow
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-40
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.1-2.1
Review article
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.1-2.91
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.1-2.u
A systemic-functional semiotics of art
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.3-4.185
Contrastive analyses of American and Arab nonverbal and paralinguistic communication
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.3-4.269
Review article
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.3-4.293
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.3-4.u
The dragon and the straightedge, pari 3: Porcelains, horses, and ink stones — the ends of acceptance
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.82.3-4.211
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 invariant code-significance of lexical items
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 101-120
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.101
Cultural Codes and Sex Role Ideology: A Study of Shoes
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 1
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- 13-33
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The Dialectical Biologist
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
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Changes in the discourse of Hustler: A study of rhetoric, vocabularies of motive, and ideology
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.243
Code and code-shifting in film communication
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.315
Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.343