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Presahy semiotických a kulturálnych štúdií
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Annotation: After a series of recent musical and artistic projects, musician, educator and theorist Július Fujak has also made a name for himself as a journalist. His latest publication is primarily a scientific and pedagogical publication intended for students of humanities, but its broad-spectrum content can provide space for reflection for those interested in diverse views and perspectives on current issues of contemporary culture and art. The publication is divided into two thematic areas: The first area, entitled Overlaps of Semiotic Studies, focuses on the field of semiotics of art, and the second represents Overlaps of Cultural Studies. The leitmotif of Fujak's work is precisely the phenomenon of overlaps between contemporary semiotics and culturology. Both disciplines, subject to development and transformation in current economic, social and cultural realities, find themselves (like many other disciplines) at an imaginary crossroads. They can remain in the closedness of now-outdated theoretical concepts or, in the words of Július Fujak, "become part of a revitalization effort to investigate socially culture-forming phenomena in the intentions of the necessarily complementary interdisciplinary overlap of the postmodern scientific discourse of semiotic and cultural studies". It is precisely the ability to observe and (re)discover mutual overlaps in the aforementioned branches of contemporary humanities that we find in the individual critically reflected topics of Fujak's current book.
Identifier: 9788055820927
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Signs and Spaces
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- Studies in Spatial Semiotics
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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop
Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.
Identifier: 9786150188676
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An ecosemiotic dimension of folklore: Reframing the concept of place-lore
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 185-216
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.01
Intersemiotic translation from fairy tale to sculpture: An exploration of secondary narrativity
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 317-345
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.06
Italian Semiotics of Memory: Genealogies and Current Perspectives
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 49-82
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.818
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
Perspectives, dimensions, and references that shape the notion of nature: A semiotic model based on socioecological relations
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 217-242
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.02
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
A walk through the history of Spanish thought influenced by Uexküll
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 61-86
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0064
Derrida’s “chimerical experimental exercise”: an ecolinguistic dream of a more biocentric language
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0027
Distant time, distant gesture: speech and gesture correlate to express temporal distance
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 159-183
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0120
Elements of language creativity
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 45-59
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0121
Personality and climate change mitigation: a psychological and semiotic exploration of the sustainable choices of optimists
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 237-273
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0056
Semiotic hybridization in Persian poetry and Iranian music
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 275-310
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0096
Splits on Instagram: a case study of young adults’ selfies
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 185-218
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0099
Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 121-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0157
The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 219-235
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0043
The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 1-27
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0071
Vers une sémiotique sadienne
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 139-158
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0115
Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective
Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.
Identifier: 9783030178826
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Spaces and Meanings
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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9783030151676
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
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A report on the conference “Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature and Culture”
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.10
A study by Umberto Eco and his colleagues on the history of early zoosemiotics: Commentary and bibliography
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 383-391
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.11
Animal language before Sebeok
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 365-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09
Eco’s “latratus canis”: A memory of the backstage
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 378-382
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.10
Giorgio Prodi and the lower threshold of semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 343-351
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.07
Passions of Our Time
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Returning ‘learning’ to education: Toward an ecological conception of learning and teaching
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 538-568
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.07
Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 630-639
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.11
Umberto Eco on the biosemiotics of Giorgio Prodi
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 352-364
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.08
Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 319-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06
Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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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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Our Responsibility to Future Generations in the Context of Ecological Crisis: Perspectives and Future Challenges
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 99-112
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Towards an ecology of mind
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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued
Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.
Identifier: 9788365621252
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“La morte non avrà signoria”: Domande per Umberto Eco
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0096
A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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A note on the meanings of junk food
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 127-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0094
Are nutrients also good to think?
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 139-163
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0111
Becoming a commercial semiotician
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 345-363
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155
Critique of the culinary reason
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 165-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0097
Food design chez Bras
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 341-353
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0090
Food design: Symbols of our daily nutrition
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 355-369
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101
Food meaning: From tasty to flavorful
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 187-201
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0103
Food-ography: Food and new media
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0087
Glocal and food: On alimentary translation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 105-125
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0099
Introduction: Semiotics of food
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 19-26
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0095
L’esthésique et l’épiphanique: Traces figuratives de la saveur
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 203-229
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0109
La triple chaîne prédicative
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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte
Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9783034320979
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