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Book 1994.0

The Socialness of Things

edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110141337 Available

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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.

Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.

Identifier: 3110141337

Status: Available

Book 1992.0

Meaning and Geography

Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos | Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou

Space Mouton de Gruyter 3110129566 Available

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Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece

Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.

Identifier: 3110129566

Status: Available

Collection Article 1990

Semiotics and Geography

Kenneth E. Foote

In: The Semiotic Web 1990: Recent Developments in Theory and History

Pages
355-364

The Semiotic Web

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Book 1990.0

The city as text

James S. Duncan

Space Cambridge University Press 0521611962 Available

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Other title information: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom

Annotation: The study of landscape - broadly defined as encompassing both rural and urban environments - has hithero concentrated upon the impact cultura groups have had upon its shaping and design. In The city as text : the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

Identifier: 0521611962

Status: Available

Journal Article 1976

BODY MOVEMENT AND VOICE PITCH IN DECEPTIVE INTERACTION

PAUL EKMAN; WALLACH V. FRIESEN; KLAUS R. SCHERER

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.23

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.23

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Journal Article 1976

COLORS AND CULTURES

MARSHALL SAHLINS

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Pages
1-22

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.1

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Journal Article 1976

Compte rendu

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.87

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.87

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Journal Article 1976

SUR LE MYTHE POÉTIQUE: ESSAI D’UNE SÉMIOSTYLISTIQUE RIMBALDIENNE

J. MARC BLANCHARD

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.67

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.67

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Journal Article 1976

THEORIE DU THEATRE ET SEMIOLOGIE: SPHERE DE L’OBJET ET SPHÈRE DE L’HOMME

PATRICE PAVIS

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.45

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.45

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Journal Article 1976

VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION OF FACTORY WORKERS

PATRICIA TWAY

In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.29

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.16.1.29

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