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Journal Article 2022

Cognitive Semiotics

Luigi Lobaccaro

In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 3-4: Italian Semiotics II

Pages
157-182

Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i3-4.853

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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i3-4.853

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Book 2015.0

Heroizability

Ibrahim Taha

General Semiotics De Gruyter 9781501510816 Available

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Other title information: An anthroposemiotic theory of Literary characters

Annotation: It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.

Identifier: 9781501510816

Status: Available

Book 2009.0

Space in musical semiosis

Juhan Ojala

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | Dept. of Musicology | University of Helsinki 9789525431285 Available

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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

Status: Available

Book 2000.0

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

Warren Buckland

Arts - performing | visual Cambridge University Press 0521780055 Available

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Annotation: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of congitive semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz' theories of film enunciation... etc.

Identifier: 0521780055

Status: Available