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Gli stili prenatali
Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani
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- Un'estetica psicofisiologica
Biology / Biosemiotics Armando Editore 9788869922787 Available
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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.
Identifier: 9788869922787
Status: Available
A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
Christine Yi Lai Luk
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- 1 edition
Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319180922 Available
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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Tuning the Self
Eelco van Es
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- 1 edition
Literature Peter Lang Publishing 9783034313780 Available
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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour
Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.
Identifier: 9783034313780
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Young People's Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship
Graciela Tonon
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400729957 Available
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Annotation: This brief book is dedicated to analyze the relations between quality of life and construction of citizenship of young people in Argentina, considering two specific social scenarios: the community and the university. In the case of community it is important to note that it not imply uniformity, as community means the inclusion of diversity and the achievement of sharing within it, and in the case of university it will be necessary to recognize that as an educational institution the university has expanded his traditional role of production of knowledge, to be an institution of social reference and social support for students. To do this the author will show some of the results of a decade of research in quality of life and young people, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Identifier: 9789400729957
Status: Available
Translation translation
edited by Susan Petrilli
General Semiotics Rodopi 9042009470 Available
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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
Status: Available
Community media and the built environment: Place as a tacit component in aesthetically mediated planning discourse
MARTIN KOEPPL
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.289
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.289
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
Culture Dresden University Press 3931828387 Available
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Annotation: Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.
Identifier: 3931828387
Status: Available
What’s black and white and misread all over? Race, identity and community in “Judge Priest”
Michael Pounds
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 655-658
Semiotics Around the World
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Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
OLATUNDE BAYO LAWUYI
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.63
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.63
The reinvention of reflexivity in Jewish prayer: The self and community in modernity
RIV-ELLEN PRELL-FOLDES
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.1-2.73
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.1-2.73