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Language of Life
Ľudmila Lacková
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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- 1 edition
Philosophy Peter Lang Group 9783631925935 Available
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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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Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research: Introduction
Janina Wildfeuer, Stephan Packard
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 3-9
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.754
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.754
Measuring Inter-subjective Agreement on Units and Attributions in Comics with Annotation Experiments
Lauren Edlin, Joshua Reiss
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 57-95
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.758
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.758
Multimodal Cohesion in Panel Graphs: A Pragmaticist Approach to the Gap Between Comics Grammar and Aesthetics
Stephan Packard
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 153-181
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.765
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.765
Multimodal Semiotics for the Analysis of Comics and Graphic Novels
John A. Bateman
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 11-56
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.757
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.757
The Logics and Semiotics of Discourse Relations in Comics
Janina Wildfeuer
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 183-208
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.766
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.766
Unreliable Iconicity: Or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning
Lukas R. A. Wilde
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 121-152
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.764
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.764
Visualising an Oral Epic: Lobacev’s Comic Book Tsar Dusan’s Wedding
Miloš Tasic, Dusan Stamenkovic
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 97-120
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.767
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Mimicry and Meaning
Timo Maran
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Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319503158 Available
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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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Semiotic management of communicative situations: New people(s) and old methods
Anti Randviir
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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- 42-71
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.03
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.03
Semiotic models of legal argumentation
Vadim Verenitš
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Social Tartu University Press 9789949325016 Available
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Notes: Articles included: Charles Sanders Peirce, A Mastermind of (Legal) Arguments (2012), On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law (2011), The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning (2012), The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice (2013), The Splendors and MIseries of Constitutional Reasoning in Times of Global Crisis: A Critical look from the Realist Perspectives of Semiotics (2013)
Annotation: The present doctoral dissertation is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism and construction, and this is the result of a project conceived ten years ago. We have taken different traditions of legal reasoning, and by juxtaposing them have sought to clarify and assess semiotic presuppositions, in order to outline a theoretical framework of legal semiotics that would help to lay the foundations for semiotic theory of legal argumentation. These semiotic presuppositions have been the object of our study at the University of Tartu since our bachelor's thesis (defended in 2001) and master's thesis (defended in 2006). Our interest in legal semiotics was motivated by a very strong sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional methods and paradigms of contemporary jurisprudence, especially with those ones of legal argumentation. Traditional jurisprudence committed to a model of legal unity, does not for the most part seeks to describe how the views of legal actors interact with the views of other legal actors/participants of legal discourse in real situations of legal communication. Thus, it was the consideration of legal communication as a semiotic activity that caused us to doubt that law could be conceived in terms of traditional legal concepts. Legal semiotics can be regarded as a major advance because it debunks the prevailing assumptions about the nature of legal reasoning and replaces them with what seems a far superior explanation. The main scientific objectives of this dissertation can be briefly formulated as follows: 1) to develop a conceptual framework for practical handling of complex problems of legal argumentation as they occur in the stages of legal communication; 2) to assess issues of compatibility/conflict between existing methods of legal reasoning and our semiotic model of legal reasoning; 3) to bridge the compatible aspects of different theories/models of legal argumentation to establish a generalizable model of legal argumentation.
Identifier: 9789949325016
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Young People's Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship
Graciela Tonon
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Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400729957 Available
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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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Semiotic Grammar
William McGregor
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General Semiotics Claredon Press | Oxford university press 0198236883 Available
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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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Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation
JOAN KWEK
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
Sémiotique en jeu
edited by Michel Arrivé and Jean-Claude Coquet
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- à partir et autour de l'œuvre d'A.J. Greimas
General Semiotics Hadès | Benjamins 2905572051 Available
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Other title information: actes de la décade tenue au Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle du 4 au 14 août 1983
Annotation: Fruit d'une décade tenue au Centre culturel de Cerisy en 1983, l'ouvrage réunit une quinzaine de contributions que sont autant de signes d'ouverture de la part d'une discipline en cours d'évolution. La mise en question porte à la fois sur les postulats (philosophiques et épistemologiques) de la sémiotique, sur ses méthodes (notament face à de noveaux domaines d'investigation comme la musique ou l'architecture) et sur ses enjeus (en particulier quant au status du "sujet" - suje d'énonciation, suject "analytique", sujet de l'interaction sociale). Avec une importante intervention d'A.J. Greimas, que répond ici, sur un ton quasi improvisé, aux questions de l'assistance. Débat avec Paul Ricœur.. The result of a decade held at the Cerisy Cultural Center in 1983, the book brings together some fifteen contributions that are signs of openness on the part of a discipline in the process of evolution. The questioning concerns both the postulates (philosophical and epistemological) of semiotics, its methods (notably in the face of new areas of investigation such as music or architecture) and its challenges (in particular regarding the status of the "subject" - subject of enunciation, "analytical" subject, subject of social interaction). With an important intervention by A.J. Greimas, who answers here, in an almost improvised tone, the questions of the audience. Debate with Paul Ricœur. (Translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572051
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Linguistic methods in cultural analysis: A reconsideration
JUNE R. WYMAN
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.1-2.51
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.1-2.51
Anthropologie structurale
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Social Plon 9782266139311 Available
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Annotation: The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time.
Identifier: 9782266139311
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The Prison-House of Language
Frederic Jameson
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Linguistics Princeton Paperbacks 9780691013169 Available
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Other title information: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
Annotation: Fredric Jameson’s survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.
Identifier: 9780691013169
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The Structural Analysis of Protocols and Myths: A Comparison of the Methods of Jean Piaget and Claude Lévi-Strauss
HOWARD GARDNER
In: Semiotica 1972, Issue 1
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1972.5.1.31
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1972.5.1.31
Research Methods for the Digital Humanities
Science and technology Palgrave Macmillan Available
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