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Groundwork for a pragmatics for formalized languages
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 211-239
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0022
The Shared Mind
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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.
Identifier: 9789027239068
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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
Understanding Morphology
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Annotation: Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a variety of languages.
Identifier: 9780340950012
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Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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Translation translation
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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I Quattro Elementi
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- nella Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.
Identifier: 882631411X
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La Traduzione
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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A diagrammatic modeling of semiosis
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 41-74
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.41
Contents/Sommaire Volume 126 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 235-235
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.235
Logan’s speech: A social semiotic perspective on a rhetorically significant text
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 75-96
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.75
Lotman’s communication act and semiosis
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 1-16
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.1
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 121-234
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.121
Schéma de l’interprétation et nombre d’interprétations adéquates
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 97-120
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.97
Signs and transcendence
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 17-40
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.17
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.u
Extending work in visual languages using Musli (a multi-sensory language interface)
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 713-716
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Semiotic Grammar
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Annotation: The label `semiotic grammar' captures a fundamental property of the grammars of human languages: not only is language a semiotic system in the familiar Saussurean sense, but its organizing system, its grammar, is also a semiotic system. This proposition, explicated in detail by William McGregor in this book, constitutes a new theory of grammar. Semiotic Grammar is `functional' rather than `formal' in its intellectual origins, approaches, and methods. It demonstrates, however, that neither a purely functional nor a purely formal account of language is adequate, given the centrality of the sign as the fundamental unit of grammatical analysis. The author distinguishes four types of grammatical signs: experiential, logical, interpersonal, and textural. The signifiers of these signs are syntagmatic relationships of the following types, respectively: constituency, dependency, conjugational and linking. McGregor illustrates and exemplifies the theory with data from a variety of languages including English, Acehnese, Polish, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, and Mohawk; and from his pioneering research on Gooniyandi and Nyulnyul, two languages of the Kimberleys region of Western Australia.
Identifier: 0198236883
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Some remarks on perfect languages
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 45-56
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 109 (1996)
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.393
On surprise
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.283
Predation as predication: Toward an ecology of semiosis and syntax
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.221
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.387
Review article
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.349
Semaphor: A meeting of metaphor and semiosis on the streets of Taipei
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.251
Semiotics of the user interface
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.237
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.u
The tendency of metaphor: Subject and predicate in the imagery of an Australian poet
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.311
Women writing their death and dying: Semiotic perspectives on women’s suicide notes
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.3-4.197
The generation of meanings in liturgical songs
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Annotation: This book is about the meaning of liturgical songs. Everybody who sings liturgical songs knows what liturgical songs is and also what it means. But when we start to talk about them, things become confused. We know too much and there are too many languages in which we can express what we think their meaning is. And what is worse, other people seem no to understand what we say and immediately reply that we may know a lot but not what they know. Then the discussion turns into a quarrel amongst people who know too much and cannot communicate what they know. A wise person may enter into the quarrel and say that communication about liturgical songs can only succeed when we sing together. Then we will sing together, confused and angry, because we now also know that the other people may sings very well, but do not understand what they are doing. This is what has been happening for decades in the Dutch churches. Perhaps we should be silent and start to look and listen very carefully to liturgical songs, while developing a language in which the songs themselves can speak, communicating what they have to say. The looking and listening will take much time and energy: there are no more easy answers. And the language will be so difficult that we are forced to be silent, waiting and hoping for a word to come. -back cover
Identifier: 9039005117
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Origins of Semiosis
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Other title information: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture
Annotation: The all-comprehensive scope set by the topic of Origins of Semiosis necessarily encompasses a great thematic diversity. The disciplinary horizon of the contributors to this volume is also highly diverse: it extends from anthropology to zoology and from linguistics to visual aesthetics. Unity in this diversity may be provided by the transdisciplinary framework of semiotics which guides the authors' explorations in the evolution of semiosis, even though the framework of this volume is by no means one of a unifying school of specific semiotic theory.
Identifier: 3110141965
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Tracing the Semiotic Boundaries of Politics
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Annotation: The first versions of some of the articles in this book were originally presented at the Workshop of Semiotics of the Colloquium on Language and Politics, University of Helsinki, December 12-15, 1988, but most of the articles were begun only after the workshop. The articles are intended to be representative of the current multiplicity of perspectives in the field of language and politics in general and of the boundaries of semiotic studies on language and politics in particular. Here, both "semiotics" and "politics" are used in their broadest sense.
Identifier: 3110135337
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Reconstructing Languages and Cultures
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- 2. unveranderte Auflage
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Other title information: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Annotation: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Identifier: 3883397083
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Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages
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Other title information: Materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium of Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8.-12. November 1988
Annotation: This fourth collection of the materials of the 1988 symposium includes several pioneering papers on Sino-Caucasian (Dene-Caucasian) languages as well as a list of some 20000 North Caucasian roots which were reconstructed about a decade aho by S. Starosin and S. Nikolaev: Nikolaev wrote it by hand and senti it too us in 1981; it was used by J. C. Catford in his class on Caucasian languages: Starostin made some corrections to the list during his visit to Ann Arbor in March, 1990.
Identifier: 3883398950
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On the Emergence of Chemical Languages
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 471-486
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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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Language
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Other title information: its structure and use
Annotation: A textbook covering all of the core concepts of linguistics, icluding phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as pragmatics and other fields covering communication and language in use. The book comes with examples covering different languages, and many excercises and resources for further self-study.
Identifier: 0155078275
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Conceptual meaning in natural languages
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-12
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.1-2.1
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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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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Approaches to Animal Communication
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Annotation: This series of the Approaches to Semiotics series, edited by thomas A. Sebeok, features monographs, including reprints of classics in the field, translations of imortant books from languages other than English, French, or German, collections of articles by a single author or on some unified theme, and relevant conference proceedings.
Identifier: 9783110862850
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