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Signs and Spaces
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- Studies in Spatial Semiotics
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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop
Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.
Identifier: 9786150188676
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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The space of culture
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Other title information: the place of nature in Estonia and beyond
Annotation: This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis
Identifier: 9789949196234
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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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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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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Signs and Symbols
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Other title information: their design and meaning
Notes: Original title in German "Der Manch un seine Sachen" (1928), English translation by Andrew Bluhm
Annotation: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks. This is a compelling study of the nature of signs and how people communicate written by the distinguished typographer Adrian Frutiger; who has illustrated his text with over 2000 line drawings. He reproduces numerous aspects of graphic symbolism from the simplicity of the T-sign to the ornamentation of the Australian aboriginal painting, and comments on the full range of symbols even including modern trademarks and traffic signs. This is the distillation of Frutiger's life's work and compulsory reading for all those interested in graphics, design, art, ornament and communication in general.
Identifier: 0823048268
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<i>Acedia: </i>A case study of a deadly sin and lively sign
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 357-380
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.357
Anger, passion, and sin: From ethics to aesthetics
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 145-176
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.145
Contents/Sommaire Volume 117 (1997)
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 395-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.395
Deuterium Abundance with FUSE
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 355
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Emotionally charged intrigues: Signs of evil in <i>A la recherche du temps perdu</i>
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 315-332
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.315
Envy and the social construction of political reality in communities
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 227-230
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.227
LYα Absorbers at Low Redshift (z < 1.7)
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 93
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Medea and the paroxysm of female anger
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 127-144
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.127
Molecules at High Z
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 317
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Murasaki Shikibu vs. Sei Shonagon: A classical case of envy in medi-<i>evil </i>Japan
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 201-226
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.201
Pour une sémiotique de l’orgueil
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 345-356
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.345
Probing the Cosmic "Dark Age"
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 19
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Pursomania: The sin-sign of avarice
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 177-200
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.177
QSO Damped LYα Absorption Systems at Low Redshift and the Giant Hydrogen Cloud Model for Damped LY&alpha
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 263
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Seeing Double: Probing the Universe with Quasars Pairs
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 173
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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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Sins and signs: Modern disguises of gluttony
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 231-238
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.231
Sloth: A paradoxical, intricate sin
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 381-394
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.381
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.u
Spectroscopy of Damped LYα Systems at Low Redshift
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 257
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The concept of sin in antiquity, particularly in Homer
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 47-66
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.47
The concept of sin in modern ethics
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 113-126
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.113
The Most Metal-Poor Stars
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 197
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The semiotic swarm of cyberspace: Cybergluttony and Internet Addiction in the global village
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 239-298
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.239
The seven deadly sins and the Catholic Church
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 67-102
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.67
The visual representation of the seven deadly sins in a tondo of Hieronymus Bosch
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 103-112
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.103
Unruly genitals: Psychoanalysis: The disappearance of sin?
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 299-314
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.299
Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel
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- a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk
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Annotation: The most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English.
Identifier: 0802009263
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The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
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Notes: with an introduction by Maurice Sendak
Annotation: If you've ever read Oh, the Places You'll Go!, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, or any of the dozens of books written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel, you may think you're familiar with the work of the man who delighted millions as "Dr. Seuss." But the wildly imaginative creations collected in these pages show previously unseen dimensions of Geisel's art. These fabulous and whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never before shown to the public, will enchant and amaze you.
Identifier: 0679434488
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Lusting for the natural sign
In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 219-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-214
On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 301-316