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Into the Miracles
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Other title information: interpretačné sondy na predmet Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie
Annotation: University textbooks continuously accompany the reader with current examples of the dimensions of artistic communication and interpretation. While the previous volume, Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation, represented a modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, its subsequent continuation, Into the Miracles /interpretative probes on the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation/, expands on other reception and communication strategies. For students of the cultural studies study program, it is an exercise teaching material, complementary to the in-depth study of the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation in connection with some focal models of selected representatives of the so-called Nitra school. This time, the dominant focus of attention was completely narrowed to the international multi-genre site-specific festival in the countryside, Into the Miracles (July 1 - July 4, 2023), which was unique and special in several aspects. The concept of this event was a multi-day pilgrimage for miracles along an 80 km long walking route through the regions of south-central Slovakia. The festival thus provided an extraordinary experience of the journey/procession (of artistic communication as a journey). The event was ideal for cultural and aesthetic-scientific studies as an example of researching the laws of reception, artistic communication and interpretation, so to speak, in an outdoor environment with the dominant backdrop of the landscape and its picturesqueness, natural environment and overall rural color. At the same time, it offered an extremely diverse variability of the reception semiosis of artistic miracles by domestic and foreign creators, which were distributed across the country within the set hiking route. The multi-day pilgrimage for the sacred dimension of beauty also became an opportunity to perceive the narrative level of the entire festival, providing in its dramaturgy the uniqueness of scenes/phenomena of miracles and the need for its search or revitalization.
Identifier: 9788055820705
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Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 63-78
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0080
Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 141-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071
The semiotics of models
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 7-43
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.01
Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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Philosophies of Performance
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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.
Identifier: 9525431371
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Semiotic models of legal argumentation
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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.
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Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
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Notes: Two of the books in this collection are inherited from Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: In my thesis I present some critical commentary on the semiotic theory of Roman Jakobson. This theory I view as an effort to establish, consolidate and widen of the nomothetic principle by using semiotic terms. In my view, to describe the basis of Jakobson?s semiotic theory means to describe the basic characteristics of his use of the terms sign, code and communication. With reference to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Nelson Goodman and François Rastier I introduce three semiotic frames, i.e. the general descriptions of meaning from semiotic/sign perspective. These frames I see as a mechanism of privileging certain kinds of question with certain privileged terms, i.e. sign, code and communication are seen as models that highlight speci%c problematic areas and simultaneously relegate others. I try to locate Roman Jakobson?s theory in these frames with emphasis on the model and de%nition of sign. The concept of sign as a complex signum or combination of its components is highlighted or distorted to suit the preferences of a particular frame. The result of this work is the description of the Jakobson?s conceptual relations between semiotic terms as the consequences of attempts to establish nomothetical approach across the semiotic frames.
Identifier: 9788024433875
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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Two cultural models: The pyramid and the emblem
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 331-348
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.331
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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The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation in the life sciences
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.647
Cultural Semiosis
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Other title information: Tracing the signifier
Annotation: This book contains works of authors: Hugh J. Silverman, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Francois Raffoul, Kelly Oliver, Stephanie John Sage, Mark Roberts, Debra B. Bergoffen, M. Alison Arnett, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Adi Ophir
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Caged in our own signs
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Other title information: A book about Semiotics
Annotation: The book is a primer of general semiotics, introducing basic models and frameworks of semiotic thinking as well as providing the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics
Identifier: 156750213X
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Beyond Textuality
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Other title information: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation
Annotation: In this volume, editors want to translate the basic ambiguity experienced today by anthropologists about the identity of their discipline, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of the territory covered by ethnography.
Identifier: 3110138891
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The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
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Changes in ideological models
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.247
The Brain's Models and Communication
In: The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics
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- 27-44
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The multiplicity of theatre models and effects: A semiotic perspective
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.3-4.271
A contribution to the general theory of models
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.67.1-2.61
Literary Models and the Study of Narrative
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 3/4
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- 461-477
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Models of narrative structure
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.64.1-2.83
Language, thought, and mental models
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.1-2.31
A generative model in architecture
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.297
A semantic method of elimination of some paradoxes
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 265-274
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.265
Afterword: At the center of the human condition
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.323
Applying linguistic models to the decorative arts: A preliminary consideration of the limits of analogy
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.309
Functionalists write, too: Frazer/Malinowski and the semiotics of the monograph
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.131
Jonestown: A study in ethnographic discourse
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.167
Looking both ways: The ethnographer in the text
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.151
Mossi salutations
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.191
Questions for the ethnographer: A critical examination of the role of the interview in fieldwork
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.233
Review article
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.307
Semiotic urban models and modes of production: A sociosemiotic approach
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.275
Signs in the field: Prospects and issues for semiotic ethnography
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.99
Some comments on the concept of the human sign: Visual and verbal components, and applications to ethnic research (A wonderful father)
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.263
Syntagmatic structures: How the Maoris make sense of history
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.287
The handshake as interaction
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.249
The semiotics of reciprocity: A Moroccan interpretation
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.211
The taste of your own flesh
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.46.2-4.107
A Semiotic Definition of Illness
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.107
Art and Ideology: The Communicative Significance of Some Urban Art Forms in Africa
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.1
Iconic Equilibrium
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.31
Linguistic Models in Narratology: From Structuralism to Generative Semantics
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.127
Rationality of Language
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.157
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.u
The Dimensions of Signs, Tools, and Models
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.63
The Metastability of Signs/Metastability as a Sign
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.83
The Relationship Between Encoding-Decoding of Visual Nonverbal Emotional Cues
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.171
Soviet structural folkloristics
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Annotation: This book is one of the results of the team work done in the Centre for the Computerised and Semantic Analysis of Myth at the University of British Columbia. Our activity is threefold: (1) investigation, development, and test of theoretical and analytic models (2) elaboration of computer programs for the semantic analysis of myth; and (3) actual analyses of Northwest Pacific Indian and of Melanesian myths. Our search for operational models and testable hypotheses led us to the recent publications of some prominent Soviet colleagues. We found these contributions valuable enough to deserve translation. A subgroup – T. Popoff, S. Reid, G. Quijano, M. Layton, W. Jilek Aall and M. Calcowski – studied articles published in German, French, or Russian, translated them and tested the approaches. We are happy to make the results available to our fellow anthropologists, folklorists and semioticians in the hope that better and ever more rigorous approaches will continue to heighten the quality of the procedures in our related fields. - from the introduction
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