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Give Peace a Chant
Dario Martinelli
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Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
Vít Gvoždiak
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General Semiotics Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci 9788024433875 Available
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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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‘I have a picture of it’: Ethnographic / ethnosemiotic explanation of visual descriptions
Imre Gráfik
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 303-330
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303
Scènes minimes et compositions majeures: Les effets des descriptions en architecture
Jean-Pierre Martinon
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 355-368
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.355
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.355
The Fashion System
Roland Barthes
Social University of California Press 0520071778 Available
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Notes: Originally published as Systeme de la mode (1983)
Annotation: In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine—the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion—Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."
Identifier: 0520071778
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Convention, Translation, and Understanding
Robert Feleppa
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- Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
Culture State University of New York Press 0887066739 Available
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Annotation: This book surveys theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to the discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.
Identifier: 0887066739
Status: Available
ETHNOGRAPHY, INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE END OF DESCRIPTION
Stephen A. Tyler
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1985, Volume 3, Issue 4
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- 83-98
The American Journal of Semiotics
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A topographical interpretation of literature: Structural balance in Neil Simon’s ’Visitor from Mamaroneck’
JAMES M. WHITE
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.305
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.305
Art: Biogenesis and semiogenesis
WALTER A. KOCH
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.283
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.283
Conversational strategy and metastrategy in a pragmatic theory: The example of Scenes from a Marriage
ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF; DEBORAH TANNEN
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.323
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.323
Review article
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.347
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.347
The Life of Saint Alexius: structure and function of a medieval popular narrative
KARIN M. BOKLUND-LAGOPOULOU
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.243
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.243
The meaning of the term makara in light of comparative mythology
ELENA SEMEKA-PANKRATOV
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.191
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.3-4.191
La structure de la description réaliste dans la littérature européenne
PATRICK IMBERT
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 95-122
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.95
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.95
Person-descriptions in plea bargaining
DOUGLAS W. MAYNARD
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.195
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.195
A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion
ADAM KENDON
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.1-2.81
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.1-2.81
A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion
ADAM KENDON
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-34
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.1-2.1
A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion. Part III: Aspects of utterance construction
ADAM KENDON
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.3-4.245
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.3-4.245
Criteria for an Ethnographically Adequate Description of Concerted Activities and their Contexts
R. P. McDERMOTT; KENNETH GOSPODINOFF; JEFFREY ARON
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.3-4.245
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.3-4.245
A DESCRIPTION OF A SEMIOTIC SYSTEM WITH SIMPLE SYNTAX
M. I. LEKOMCEVA; B. A. USPENSKY
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 2
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.18.2.157
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.18.2.157