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(Re)considering Roman Jakobson
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Annotation: This book was initiated by a graduate course of Elin Sütiste about semiotics of Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), given in the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. The contributions include articles by the doctoral students as well as co-lectures, visiting scholars and colleagues. These seminars affirmed that Jakobson was truly an ambitious, forward-thinking scholar who exerted himself to establish semiotics as a discipline. Though Jakobson identified himself as a philologist, he played a pivotal role in the development and institutionalization of semiotics. Jakobson’s ability to grasp the potential of new ideas and to inspire others was remarkable. Juri Lotman has commented that “Wherever his fate of a mid-20th-century man took him, everywhere Jakobson attracted a group of scientists that soon grew into a scientific centre of global importance”.
Identifier: 9789949036301
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Investigations of an anti-semiote: Stanisław Lem’s semiotic ideas in light of semiotic functionalism of Jerzy Pelc
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 41-56
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0015
New Localism
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Other title information: Living in the Here and Now
Annotation: This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.
Identifier: 9783030215781
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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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Grand Hotel Abyss
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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
Identifier: 9781784785697
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Describing the past: Tartu-Moscow School ideas on history, historiography, and the historian's craft
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.08
Communicating the ideas and attitudes of spying in film music: A social semiotic approach
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.04
Companion to European Heritage Revivals
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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.
Identifier: 9783319077697
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Displace
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Other title information: a Migrating Art Academies compendium of ideas
Annotation: This book - the third Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) publication - marks the end of the third phrase of the MigAA program, whcih over the course of seven years has grown into a dynamic an vital network of art academis and universities, independent arts organizations, many hundreds of people, and endless ideas. [...] Conducted over the last four years, phase three has seen an expanded and evolved MigAA network implementing a radican new scheme for creative collaboration and learning. This phase has explored the process of develping ideas while being displaced: away from one's usual environmnet at school, work, and home and far from family and friends. This volume, subtly titled Displace, traces the wide-randing results of this latest MigAA phase.
Identifier: 9786094471438
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 290-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.11
Russian Formalist Criticism
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
Identifier: 9780803254602
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Prospects of Legal Semiotics
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Annotation: This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Identifier: 9789048193424
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How did the ideas of Juri Lotman reach the West?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.03
"Matter as effete mind": Peirce's synechistic ideas on the semiotic threshold
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.03
Chance, Love, and Logic
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Other title information: Philosophical Essays
Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.
Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Identifier: 0803287518
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Information, its forms and functions
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Other title information: the elements of semiology
Annotation: Taking into account the many forms and purposes of human expression and communication, this study covers such topics as: the recording of information; and the use of signs for the elaboration of ideas. The author argues that language and signs are best understood as a sort of technology
Identifier: 0773486755
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‘Ce qui ne se laisse enoncer’: Des jeux de langage ironiques
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.293
A semiotic analysis of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.209
Contents/Sommaire Volume 107 (1995)
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.399
Interpreting ‘Qing thought’ in China as a ‘period concept’: On the construction of an epochal system of ideas
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.237
Peirce's Semiotics Now
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Annotation: Peirce's Semiotics Now: A Primer is written for the student of semiotics, linguistics, communication, literary and aesthetic studies and philosophy. It provides a penetrating introduction to Charles S. Peirce's concept of the sign, as distinguished from Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic theory. The author places Peircean semiotics in today's cultural setting. It thus accounts for our multicultural, intertextual, high-tech, postmodern scene, as a set of unifying ideas at the heart of which lies semiosis, the perpetual movement of signs
Identifier: 1551300826
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Publications received
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.395
Review article
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.307
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.u
Text segmentation and levels of interpretation: Reading and rereading the biblical story of Joseph
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.273
Un signe peut-il précéder son référent?
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.265
Beyond Goffman
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Other title information: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction
Notes: Based on a conference held Dec. 1987 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, India.
Annotation: This book is a collection of original articles which endeavours to expand the scope of the theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the social sciences. Most chapters take a critical stand toward his ideas while still recognizing his fundamental contribution to the field. Hence, the title Beyond Goffman. The book is divided into two parts. The first concentrates upon theory and explores Goffman's intellectual heritage (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, the notion of social situation, the relation between micro and macro levels of analysis) and also examines the way his work relates to contemporary theoretical movements (semiotics, postmodernism, deconstructionism, and feminism). The second part of the book probes the insights found in his diverse empirical studies and expands the domain of their applications.
Identifier: 3110122081
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The city as text
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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
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Art and beauty in the Middle Ages
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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
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Significs and Language
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Notes: With an introduction by H. W. Schmitz
Annotation: This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4, 1893), and ‘Sense, Meaning and Interpretation’ (reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18, 1896), and a selection of several noteworthy and unpublished essays. In the introduction to this volume the editor H. Walter Schmitz exemplifies how Lady Welby developed her significs in discussion and cooperation with numerous highly divergent scientists and scholars of her times; how her ideas influenced other scholars in Europe and the US; and how significs sank to near oblivion and was finally recovered.
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Some Leading Ideas of Peirce’s Semiotic
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.19.3-4.157
Russian Formalism
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Annotation: More elaborately and self-consciously than anywhere in the West, Russian criticism has developed three major schools. One of these looks for the essence of literature in its philosophical and religious ideas: writers like Berdjaev, mainly interested in an interpretation of Dostoevskij, see literature as a way of knowing the absolute. A second school is the social: literature is not only a mirror of society but an incitement to social thought and action. In its Marxist version, social criticism has become the official Soviet creed and is thus felt today as peculiarly representative of Russian criticism. But a third school, that of Formalism, is so far much less known and much less accessible in the West. It arose around 1914 and was suppressed around 1930. Russian Formalism keeps the work of art itself in the center of attention: it sharply emphasizes the difference between literature and life, it rejects the usual biographical, psychological, and sociological explanations of literature.
Identifier: 9027904502
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