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Exemption and exegesis: Judicial interpretation of exemption clauses in England, Australia, and India
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 77-97
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0006
Global Semiotics
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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."
Identifier: 025333957X
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Theatre at the crossroads of culture
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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Analyzing cultures
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Other title information: An introduction and handbook
Annotation: Analyzing Cultures is a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines, including introductory courses in semiotics, courses in cultural studies, anthropology courses on culture, social science courses on human nature.
Identifier: 0253335671
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Snow, Forest, Silence
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- The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics
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Notes: One of the books in this library is inherited from Tyler James Bennet's library
Annotation: Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.
Identifier: 0253213207
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Signs of meaning in the universe
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Notes: Translated by Barbara J. Haveland
Annotation: This book examines the radical premise that the sign, not the molecule, is the crucial, underlying factor in the study of life
Identifier: 0253332338
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Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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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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Signs in society
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Other title information: studies in semiotic anthropology
Annotation: How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices..
Identifier: 0253327571
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Pandora and Occam
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Other title information: on the Limits of Language and Literature
Annotation: Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom.
Identifier: 0253349958
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The essential Peirce
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Other title information: selected philosophical writings
Notes: Volume 1 (1867-1893)
Annotation: A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce.
Identifier: 0253207215
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The Other Heading
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Other title information: Reflections on Today's Europe
Annotation: Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself?
Identifier: 0253316936
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The semiotics of theater
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Notes: Originally published in three volumes as Semiotik des Theaters (1983)
Annotation: The theater is a particularly privileged semiotic object. Unlike literature or painting which operate within a single sign-system, theater combines a variety of sign-systems - language and gesture, costume and decoration, music and lighting - each of which generates meaning according to different principles. This complexity creates special challenges for understanding theater as a meaning-generating system. Erika Fischer-Lichte's book examines each of the sign-systems of the theater and investigates the ways they relate to one another. The result is a brilliant articulation of a semiotics of theater
Identifier: 0253322375
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Approaching Theatre
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Notes: Originally published as Théâtre, modes d'approche (1987)
Annotation: This book is concerned with the analysis of the theatrical event and of all the elements that make up a perdormance – the text, the actor, the space, the spectator, the social circumstances. Here, an international group of scholars approaches theatre – viewed in its traditional guise as a physical entertainment of a text before spectators – from a variety of directions and using different methodologies. While there is a general orientation toward semiotic analysis, historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches are represented as well.
Identifier: 0253327237
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Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories
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Notes: series edited by Harald Clahsen and William Rutherford
Annotation: This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge.
Identifier: 9027224668
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Semiotics of Cities, Selves, and Cultures
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Other title information: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology
Annotation: This is an overview of the semiotic connection with anthropology and an overview of what has been achieved in this field until now.
Identifier: 0899257267
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Signs Becoming Signs
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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
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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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Considérations linguistiques
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.101
Laughter, control-systems, and production management
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.151
On the uses and limits of structural analysis for literary scholarship
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-50
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.1
Review article
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.163
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.u
Text, frame, discourse
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.51
The ’practices’ of transcription in conversation analysis
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.75
Semiotics in India
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 217-278
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Commemorative essay
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.207
Commemorative essay II
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.223
Elementary units of an action sign system: The Hasta or hand positions of Indian classical dance
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.247
Forcefield analogy for communications involving movement of the head: An exercise in ecological semiotics
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.279
Guest Editorial
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.191
Review article
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.325
Semantics and the blind child
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.297
Transferts d’objets et groupe de Klein: Essai de formalisation en semiotique narrative greimasienne
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.3-4.313
Writings of Charles S. Peirce
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Other title information: a chronological edition. Volume 3
Annotation: For anyone seriously interested in Peirce, or in nineteenth-century American philosophy, or in American intellectual history, or in philosophy in general, or in semiotics and its philosophical import, these volumes should be required reading.""--Murray G. Murphey, Semiotica
Identifier: 0253372038
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A structure for a modern myth: Television and the transsexual
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.95
Empiricist versus mentalist theories of language acquisition
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.139
Peirce’s speculations on the conditions of representability
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.7
Peirce’s third trichotomy and two cases of sign path analysis
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.15
Review article
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.161
Semiotics and the philosophy of language
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
Identifier: 0253351685
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Sémiotique de l’adirẹ
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.73
The Doktor Faustus of Thomas Mann as a drama of iconicity
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.27
The role of the reader
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- Explorations in the semiotics of texts
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Annotation: In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts.
Identifier: 0253111390
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Toward a semiotic reading of poetry: A Chinese example
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.49
Truth as a semiotic concept
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.1
... the essential being of language cannot be anything linguistic — Martin Heidegger
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.135
Autobiographical textuality: The case of Thoreau’s Walden
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.257
Body movement and nonverbal communication
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Other title information: an annotated bibliography, 1971-1981
Annotation: 1410 references to published literature in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. 12 annotators wrote the abstracts and prepared a subject index. The bibliography includes works published in six languages that are directly concerned with the psychology or anthropology of body movement. Articles or books from areas such as dance therapy, motor learning, psycholinguistics, ethology, and physical education are included only if they deal in some way with behavioural aspects of movement per se and if they are focused clearly on body language – particularly research in body language as opposed to clinical or training program reports.
Identifier: 0253341019
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C. S. Peirce’s phaneroscopy and semiotics
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.169