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Book 2023.0

Into the Miracles

Miroslav Ballay

Edition
1 edition

Arts - performing | visual Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre 9788055820705 Available

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Other title information: interpretačné sondy na predmet Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie

Annotation: University textbooks continuously accompany the reader with current examples of the dimensions of artistic communication and interpretation. While the previous volume, Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation, represented a modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, its subsequent continuation, Into the Miracles /interpretative probes on the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation/, expands on other reception and communication strategies. For students of the cultural studies study program, it is an exercise teaching material, complementary to the in-depth study of the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation in connection with some focal models of selected representatives of the so-called Nitra school. This time, the dominant focus of attention was completely narrowed to the international multi-genre site-specific festival in the countryside, Into the Miracles (July 1 - July 4, 2023), which was unique and special in several aspects. The concept of this event was a multi-day pilgrimage for miracles along an 80 km long walking route through the regions of south-central Slovakia. The festival thus provided an extraordinary experience of the journey/procession (of artistic communication as a journey). The event was ideal for cultural and aesthetic-scientific studies as an example of researching the laws of reception, artistic communication and interpretation, so to speak, in an outdoor environment with the dominant backdrop of the landscape and its picturesqueness, natural environment and overall rural color. At the same time, it offered an extremely diverse variability of the reception semiosis of artistic miracles by domestic and foreign creators, which were distributed across the country within the set hiking route. The multi-day pilgrimage for the sacred dimension of beauty also became an opportunity to perceive the narrative level of the entire festival, providing in its dramaturgy the uniqueness of scenes/phenomena of miracles and the need for its search or revitalization.

Identifier: 9788055820705

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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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Journal Article 2022

Sociosemiotics of Advertising: Experiences, Themes and Perspectives

Marianna Boero

In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I

Pages
153-170

Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.822

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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.822

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Journal Article 2020

Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction

Hanna Rautajoki; Jarkko Toikkanen; Pirkko Raudaskoski

In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235

Pages
91-111

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126

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Book 2018.0

Passions of Our Time

Julia Kristeva

Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available

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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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Journal Article 2018

Umwelt, Lebenswelt and Dasein seen through the lens of a subjective experience of reality

Zdzisław Wąsik

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1

Pages
126-142

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.06

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.06

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Journal Article 2016

Reflections on Cybersemiotic Experience in the Meta-Environment

Claudia Jacques

In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

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Journal Article 2016

The semiotics of migrants’ food: Between codes and experience

Sara Greco

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211

Pages
59-80

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0089

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0089

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Book 2015.0

Europos sąjungos piliečių teisės

Aistė Balžekienė | Algis Krupavičius | Algis Junevičius | Eglė Butkevičienė | Justina Ražanauskaitė

Social Technologija 9786090211427 Available

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Other title information: požiūriai ir patirtys

Annotation: This is a handbook of human rights in European Union, the experiences and opinions

Identifier: 9786090211427

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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

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Book 2014.0

Greimas close and far

Karolis Rimtautas Kašponis

General Semiotics Naujasis Lankas 9789955038702 Available

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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli

Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.

Identifier: 9789955038702

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Book 2013.0

The Edusemiotics of Images

Inna Semetsky

Social Sense Publishers 9789462090538 Available

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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot

Notes: a printed version

Annotation: Semetsky’s new book offers a bracing account of Tarot semiotics in view of its deep significance for educational experience. Analyzing the symbolic language of Tarot images that express the intimations of the unconscious, she invites readers to explore novel ways of learning about the nature of ourselves and the world we are situated in. Combining thorough research with an accessible style, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for present and future generations of practitioners, academics and students across disciplines. Pia Brînzeu, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Rector of the Universityof Timis¸oara, Romania; author of Corridors of Mirrors. A sequel to the author’s Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic and Semiotics Education Experience, Semetsky’s new book presents the Tarot sign-system as a school of ethical living. Bringing the philosophies of Peirce, Deleuze, Dewey, Whitehead and Gebser in a dialogue with the cutting-edge science of coordination dynamics, she grounds the art of Tarot in the logic of signs acting across nature, culture and human mind. Building on Noddings’ “maternal factor”, Semetsky demonstrates how the lessons embodied in Tarot symbolism recover the feminine value of relations and contribute to Self~Other integration. Such is the message of Tarot images. The Image is the Message. Igor Klyukanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University, USA; editor, Russian Journal of Communication; author of A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Semetsky’s amalgamation of the techniques of visual communication with the emerging field of edusemiotics is an absolute masterpiece in transdisciplinarity. By forging diverse strands of inquiry into an overall model of how images enhance learning, Semetsky’s new book provokes us to take a fresh look at iconic information and is a required reading for everyone who is engaged with the artand science of visual semiotics at the intersection of nature and culture. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada; editor-in-chief, Semiotica; author of The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice. Finally. An in-depth look at Tarot from within the field of semiotics, a perspective that had been inexplicably overlooked until now. As a language of exile from language, Tarot cards are silent words that became images. Here is a book that turns our thirst for symbols into a learning tool. The sign sings in Inna Semetsky’s work.

Identifier: 9789462090538

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Book 2011.0

The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

edited by Jan M. Broekman | Francis J. Mootz

Edition
1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400713406 Available

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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.

Identifier: 9789400713406

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Book 2010.0

(Auto)Biography as a Musicological Discourse

edited by Tatjana Marković | Vesna Mikić

Dependent title
The Ninth International Conference

Music Ton plus 9788660510275 Available

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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union

Identifier: 9788660510275

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Book 2009.0

The Parallax View

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available

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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.

Identifier: 9780262240512

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Book 2007.0

Przestrzeń i muzyka

Leszek Polony

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 9788387182731 Available

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Annotation: This essay is the third in a series of works devoted to musical hermeneutics. In the first, I dealt with the basic concepts of music ontology: movement, play, being and time, drawing inspiration from the hermeneutical philosophy of Schleiermacher, Diltey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Then, inspired by the thought of Paul Ricoeur, I analysed the conceptual category of musical narrative. Even then, in these considerations, the category of space appeared many times, inseparable from human experience in its temporal and spatial structure and, as it turns out, inextricably linked to the experience of music. In the reception of music, we are undoubtedly given a certain "temporal" sound-musical space.

Identifier: 9788387182731

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Book 2007.0

Zoosemiotics

Dario Martinelli

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1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute 9789525431162 Available

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Other title information: proposals for a handbook

Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.

Identifier: 9789525431162

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Book 2006.0

The Logos of the Bios 1

Günther Witzany

Dependent title
Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics

Biology / Biosemiotics Umweb publications 9525576019 Available

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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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Book 2002.0

Pragmatism and the forms of sense

Robert E. Innis

General Semiotics Pensylvania State University Press 027102223X Available

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Other title information: language, perception, technics

Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.

Identifier: 027102223X

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Book 2002.0

Readers of the book of life

Anton Markoš

Dependent title
contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology

Biology / Biosemiotics Oxford University Press 0195149483 Available

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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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Book 2001.0

Propedeutica della traduzione

Bruno Osimo

Linguistics Hoepli 8820329352 Available

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Other title information: Corso Introduttivo con tavole sinottiche

Annotation: Per imparare a tradurre occorre molta esperienza ma l'attivià practica va fin dall'inizio inquadrata in un contesto teorico di riferimento che fornisca alcuno principi metodologici. Questo volume rispomde a tale esigenza collocandosi al livellos preparatorio delgli studi universitari nel campo della traduzione. Learning to translate requires a lot of experience, but the practical activity must be framed from the beginning in a theoretical context of reference that provides some methodological principles. This volume responds to this need by placing itself at the preparatory level of university studies in the field of translation. (translated with google translate)

Identifier: 8820329352

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Book 2000.0

An Anthropology of The European Union

edited by Irene Bellier | Thomas M. Wilson

Dependent title
Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe

Social Berg 1859733247 Available

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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union

Identifier: 1859733247

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Experiences with urban spaces: Semiosis and rupture

Mario Shumacher, Luigi Lentini

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
565-568

Semiotics Around the World

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Journal Article 1996

Contents/Sommaire Volume 111 (1996)

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.357

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Journal Article 1996

Cross-cultural similarities in gestures: The deep relationship between gestures and speech which transcends language barriers

RIMA ABOUDAN; GEOFFREY BEATTIE

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.269

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Journal Article 1996

L’expressivité vocale dans la parole chantée

EVA BÉRARD

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.295

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Journal Article 1996

Molecular biosemiotics: Molecules carry out semiosis in living systems

YOSHIMI KAWADE

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.195

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Journal Article 1996

Review article

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.319

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Journal Article 1996

Semiotic analysis of graphical and linguistic data in architectural design activity

MADELEINE ARNOLD

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.245

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Journal Article 1996

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.u

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Journal Article 1996

The mind’s machines: The Turing machine, the Memex, and the personal computer

PETER SKAGESTAD

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.217

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Book 1995.0

Beyond Textuality

edited by Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin

Culture Mouton de Gruyter 3110138891 Available

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Other title information: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation

Annotation: In this volume, editors want to translate the basic ambiguity experienced today by anthropologists about the identity of their discipline, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of the territory covered by ethnography.

Identifier: 3110138891

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Book 1995.0

Faces in the clouds

Stewart Guthrie

Culture Oxford University Press 0195069013 Available

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Other title information: a new theory of religion

Annotation: In this book anthorpologist Steward githrie argues persuasively that religion is anthropomorphism - the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and events. Guthrie's explanation is radical. Anthropomorphism and hence religion, he says, strem form a stratefy of perception. Mrdhalling a wealth of evidence from etnography, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art and animal behavior. Faces in the clouds shows how this perceptual strategy pervades human life and how it underlines religious experience

Identifier: 0195069013

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Book 1994.0

Le pouvoir comme passion

Anne Hénault

Literature Presses universitaires de France 2130465412 Available

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Notes: Together with a debate between Algirdas J. Greimas and Paul Ricœur that happened in 23.05.1989.

Annotation: Nous savons déchiffrer un propos que répresente de la passion mais savons-nous reconnaître un texte que manifeste de la passion sans la transcrite? La recherche sémiotique était parvenue à un point où il lui était absilumnet nécessaire de pouvoir observer cette inscription directe du vécu, du sensible dans la trame, d'un discours donné. L'expérience la plus pure consitait à partir d'un texte émotionnellement plat, dans son écriture, et cependant captateur, pour démontrer ce qu le travaillait en sous-main,nune qualité de présence qui pertubait le texte et le troublait en profondeur, alors qu'elle était insignifiée au niveau proprement linguistique: Le pouvouir comme passion est la première expérience de mise en évidence de phénomènes discursifs inarticuláres. We know how to decipher a statement that represents passion, but do we know how to recognize a text that manifests passion without transcribing it? Semiotic research had reached a point where it was absolutely necessary to be able to observe this direct inscription of the lived, of the sensitive in the framework of a given discourse. The purest experience consisted of starting from an emotionally flat text, in its writing, and yet captivating, to demonstrate what was working on it behind the scenes, a quality of presence that disturbed the text and troubled it deeply, while it was insignificant at the strictly linguistic level: Power as passion is the first experience of highlighting inarticulate discursive phenomena. (translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 2130465412

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Book 1994.0

The human use of signs

John Deely

Dependent title
or, Elements of Anthroposemiosis

General Semiotics Rowman & Littlefield Publisher 0847678040 Available

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Annotation: An impressive synthesis of semiotics and anthropology which puts human experience in a new light. Deely gives us the foundation for a new paradigm for anthropology.

Identifier: 0847678040

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Book 1993.0

Landscape

Edited by Barbara Bender

Space Berg 0854963731 Available

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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives

Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested

Identifier: 0854963731

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Book 1991.0

Signs Becoming Signs

Floyd Merrell

General Semiotics Indiana University Press 0253337461 Available

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Other title information: Our Perfusive, Persuasive Universe

Notes: 1st book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)

Annotation: Signs Becoming Signs evinces a broad transdisciplinary perspective based on the thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce. The universe as a perfusion of signs incessantly spilling forth into other signs- evolutionary, processual, ongoing semiosis- resists precise conceptualization. As within St. Augustine's time, we might somehow fleetingly experience it, sense it, almost know it, but upon our attempting to say it, it will already have sublimated into unknowing: thus the breach between our 'semiotically real' world and the 'real', between our incorrigible ideals and our real capacities.

Identifier: 0253337461

Status: Available

Book 1990.0

Det Dialogiska Ordet

Mikhail Bakhtin (Michail Bachtin)

Edition
3 edition

General Semiotics Anthropos 918577209X Available

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Annotation: Alla gångbara cynismer och sofismer om konstnärliga schabloners ofrånkomlighet och subjektets undergång i vår komplicerade massmediala värld etc sopas bort av Bachtins enkla uppmaning att konsten på allvar, att svara på det tilltal som riktas mot en: "För det som jag förstått och upplevt i konsten är jag skyldig att ansvara med mitt liv, så att allt det som jag upplevt och förstått inte skall vara verkningslöst i livet." All common cynicisms and sophisms about the inevitability of artistic templates and the demise of the subject in our complicated mass media world, etc., are swept away by Bakhtin's simple call to take art seriously, to respond to the appeal that is made to one: "For what I have understood and experienced in art, I am obliged to be responsible with my life, so that all that I have experienced and understood shall not be ineffective in life." (Translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 918577209X

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Journal Article 1988

Incommunicables and poetic documentation in the Alzheimer’s disease experience

JABER F. GUBRIUM

In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.72.3-4.235

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Journal Article 1988

Pain assessment: Model construction and analysis of words used to describe pain-like experiences

FANNIE GASTON-JOHANSSON; JENS ALLWOOD

In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
73-92

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.73

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Book 1986.0

Art and beauty in the Middle Ages

Umberto Eco

Culture Yale University Press 0300093047 Available

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Notes: translated by Hugh Bredin, originally published in 1959

Annotation: In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture.

Identifier: 0300093047

Status: Available

Journal Article 1983

THE EXPERIENCE OF THE INDEXICAL SIGN: JAKOBSON AND THE SEMIOTIC PHONOLOGY OF LEOŠ JANÁČEK

Vladimír Karbusický

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1983, Volume 2, Issue 3

Pages
35-58

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 1982

Experience, signification, and reality: The boundaries of cultural semiotics

LAWRENCE GROSSBERG

In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.73

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Journal Article 1979

Signs and Experience: Steps Towards a Semiotic Theory

NIKHIL BHATTACHARYA

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.311

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.311

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