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Language of Life
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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Notes: general editor of the series Elize Bisanz
Annotation: In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.
Identifier: 9783631925935
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(Selbst-)Optimierung in der Erwachsenenbildung: Bildungsfragen im Horizont des Lebenslangen Lernens
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 3-4: Selbstoptimierung
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i3-4.870
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective
Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.
Identifier: 9783030178826
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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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Passions of Our Time
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Can Pragmatists Believe in Qualia?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Column on Transdisciplinary Realism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Helpful Feedback
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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New Visual Hermeneutics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Three Levels of Semiosis: Three Kinds of Kinds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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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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Greimas close and far
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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Human Suffering and Quality of Life
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Other title information: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Annotation: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.
Identifier: 9789400776685
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Young People's Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship
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Annotation: This brief book is dedicated to analyze the relations between quality of life and construction of citizenship of young people in Argentina, considering two specific social scenarios: the community and the university. In the case of community it is important to note that it not imply uniformity, as community means the inclusion of diversity and the achievement of sharing within it, and in the case of university it will be necessary to recognize that as an educational institution the university has expanded his traditional role of production of knowledge, to be an institution of social reference and social support for students. To do this the author will show some of the results of a decade of research in quality of life and young people, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Identifier: 9789400729957
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Mapping the child’s world: The cognitive and cultural function of proper names in the book series Paula’s Life
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 224-248
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.08
The Lithuanian SSR Society of Art Photography (1969-1989)
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Other title information: an image production network
Notes: translated by Jurij Dobriakov
Annotation: This book is about the power of photography and the network it formed in everday life and art of Lithuania in 1069-1989.
Identifier: 9786094470332
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Before and after music
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Other title information: proceedings from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification : Vilnius, 21-25 October 2008
Annotation: A collection of conference papers from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification, focused on "archeology" of music and its after-life
Identifier: 9789986503934
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Metaphorical analogies in approaches of Victor Turner and Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy in social interaction and dramas of social life
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 130-166
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.04
Ludomir Michał Rogowski
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- Sylwetka życia i twórczości
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Annotation: This book covers the life, work and critics perception of a Polish composer Ludomir Michał Rogowski
Identifier: 9788387182854
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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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Women and Gift Economy
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Other title information: a radically different worldview is possible
Annotation: Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics, this book points to ways to re-create the connections, which have been severed, between the gift economy, women, and the economies of Indigenous peoples, and to bring forward the gift paradigm as an approach to liberate us from the worldview of the market that is destroying life on the planet. Shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another, better, world possible.
Identifier: 9780973670974
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Zoosemiotics
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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Muotokuvia
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Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita
Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.
Identifier: 9525431142
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Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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De la întuneric la lumină
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Other title information: semiotica iesirii din păcatul originar
Annotation: To outline a semiotics of the original sin of falling into the temptation of lying, disobedience and betrayal, a sin whose signs still disturb the life of the human being, is the primary goal of this book. To come out of the darkness of error, to enter the light of the meaning found through the image and likeness of the Primordial Truth, is defined as an aspiration following a trial given with joy to all who are open to wisdom and love.
Identifier: 9737300009
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Vietnam Tourism
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Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.
Identifier: 0789025701
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Schema as both the key to and the puzzle of life: Reflections on the Uexküllian crux
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 188-208
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.08
Signs and the design of life – Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 379-383
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
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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The Organic Codes
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- An Introduction to Semantic Biology
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Annotation: Marcello Barbieri sets out his theory that there are many more organic codes in nature than the genetic code. The existence of these codes can be used to explain the major steps in the evolutionary history of life, and processes like epigenesis and complexity generation in embryos
Identifier: 0521824141
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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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Back to the science of life
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 129-147
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.07
Biosemiotic knowledge — a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 283-292
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.17
Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 315-325
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.19
Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 263-275
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.15
Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 63-69
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.04
New science
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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Bloom's morning
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Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.
Identifier: 0595167500
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Rethinking the media audience
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Other title information: the new agenda
Annotation: The contributors argue that the current models for researching media reception and audiences are not appropriate for the contemporary media enviroment, and build a case for a new approach to exploring the role of media in everyday life.
Identifier: 0761950710
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Semiosis and reflectivity in life and consciousness
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 231-246
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.231
The life of signs in society — and out of it: Critique of the communication critique
In: Sign System Studies 1999, Volume 27
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- 88-128
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1999.27.05