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Into the Miracles
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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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<b>The use of semiotic resources in traffic policing</b>: a<b>n exploration of genre structure and exchanges in traffic accident handling in China</b>
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 169-202
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0149
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.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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Fast Times and Excellent Adventures
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Other title information: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie
Annotation: The book explores the history of the 1980's phenomena of the teen movie genre, showing the behind the scenes of select movies and actors as well as the cultural and social context.
Identifier: 9781472123725
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Give Peace a Chant
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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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The translation of food in literature: A culinary journey through time and genres
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 27-43
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0102
Cykl sceniczny "Licht" Karlheinza Stockhausena
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Other title information: muzyczny teatr świata
Annotation: Analysing the subject matter and content of Licht, as well as its message and the means of expression employed, it is difficult not to discern the unification, within a single work, of what might appear to be contrasting musical genres and kinds of theatre (mystery play, expressionist drama, happening).
Identifier: 9788387182939
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Simfonia de Camera Atelier de Cercetare Si Creatie
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Annotation: This is a collection of works that look closer to the topic of the chamber symphony genre
Identifier: 9789731910086
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Systems of musical sense
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- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
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‘What shall we eat today, darling?’ Private — Public: Romantic genres in preschool arenas
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 55-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.55
Genre, verisimilitude, and advertising
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1199-1202
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Musical meaning in Beethoven
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Annotation: Offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with an analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, this book examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at various levels of structure.
Identifier: 0253327423
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Towards a Semiotics of Ideology
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Annotation: The attention of this work can be attributed to a particular system of ideology that must be understood as the result of a larger project, meant to study the neo-realist Portuguese novel of the forties and fifties. This study can also, at the same time, be understood as an examination of a larger question, namely that of articulation among literary systems (especially periods and literary genres) and ideological systems. It is by keeping in mind the terms in which such articulation is possible that the recourse to semiotic theory as a foundation of this study is justified. Understood as code, ideology will be treated here as an autonomous system of signs that exists along with the literary polisystem.
Identifier: 3110118297
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Intermittences du sens
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- études sémiotiques
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Annotation: Les intermittences du sens, c'est ici, tout d'abord, une pluralité d'pbjects en tous genres (romans, nouvelles ou poèmes, en françauis ou en anglais; discours littéraires, échanges de lettres, bribes de conversation courante; pratiques quotidienne ou objets esthétiques) que traverse et que scande le retour d'une même question: celle de la signification de son surgissement, de ses modes de manifestation et même, peut-on dire, de ses agissements. C'est aussi de point en point et de part en part, le jeu réglé des singularités et des récurrences, l'alternance des espèces constituées et des morphologies en devenir, l'entrejeu des discontinuités et des enchaînements, sur le support, el la dynamique des places et des forces. C'est, dans l'épaisseur des textes, l'échange réversible entre l'espace vectorisé oû les figures se déploient et le substrat figural que y imprime sa prosodie et ses contours. C'est enfin et surtout à la caçon de l'accompagnement qui lie la partition, l'interrogation sur le ses du sens: non pas tant sa saisie que sa poursuite et plutôt que sa fuite, sa fugue. The intermittences of meaning are here, first of all, a plurality of objects of all kinds (novels, short stories or poems, in French or in English; literary discourses, exchanges of letters, snippets of everyday conversation; daily practices or aesthetic objects) that cross and that are punctuated by the return of the same question: that of the meaning of its emergence, of its modes of manifestation and even, one might say, of its actions. It is also from point to point and from one end to the other, the regulated play of singularities and recurrences, the alternation of constituted species and morphologies in the making, the interplay of discontinuities and sequences, on the support, and the dynamics of places and forces. It is, in the thickness of the texts, the reversible exchange between the vectorized space where the figures are deployed and the figural substrate that its prosody and its contours imprint there. It is finally and above all the way of accompaniment which links the score, the questioning of the meaning: not so much its grasp as its pursuit and rather than its escape, its fugue. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 2130445225
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A problem of genre: Two theories of autobiography
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.64.3-4.307
Interpretation and genre perception
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.133
Language, thought, and mental models
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.31
Michelangelo’s Genesis: A structuralist Interpretation of the central panels of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.1
Partaking with the divine and symbolizing the societal: The semiotics of Japanese food and drink
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.115
Review article
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.147
The structure and language of a silence
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.99
Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel As a Literary Genre
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 3, Issue 1
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- 99-102
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Color naming by art students and science students: A comparative study
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.303
La théorie du signe à Port-Royal
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.267
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.317
The Dialogic Imagination by M. M. Bakhtin
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
Identifier: 9780292715349
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The relation of logic to semiotics
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.193
The semiotic of modern culture
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.3-4.287
The Journal as activity and genre: Or listening to the Silent Laughter of Mozart
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.1-2.97
Compte-rendu
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 167-192
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.167
Metapher, Metonymy, and Synecdoche Revis(it)ed
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.121
Prokofiev’s Score and Cantata for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.151
Sémiotique picturale: Analyse d’une mosaïque byzantine
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.75
The Arms and Hands, with Special Reference to an Anglo-Saxon Sign System
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.23
The Self and Body Movement Behavior
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.1
The Semiotics of a Genre: Portraiture in Literature and Painting
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.21.1-2.111