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Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
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Other title information: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure
Annotation: The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. The book concerns the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It briefly reviews the historical schools of modern semiotics and then focuses on the Saussurean theory of the language system, the principles of narrative analysis as developed by A. J. Greimas, and the extension of this theoretical framework to the understanding of communication and the social nature of semiotic systems. It emphasizes the operational aspects of semiotics and matters of methodology and techniques, including the initiative of quantitative analysis.
Identifier: 9783110991581
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Operationalizing Peirce’s Syllabus in terms of icons and stereotypes
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 265-285
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0152
A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
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Annotation: this book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not.
Identifier: 9783034322508
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La triple chaîne prédicative
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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte
Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9783034320979
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Lietuviški natų leidiniai 1990-2015 m.
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Other title information: Bibliografinis sąvadas
Annotation: This publication is a bibliographic compendium of Lithuanian sheet music from 1990 to 2015 compiled in chronological order and presented to readers. The difficult period of restored independence, when sheet music publishing underwent fundamental changes, brought chaos to the field of registration. The ISMN Lithuanian agency began to operate only in 1994, and some publishers even after 1994 did not register their publications with the ISMN agency. As a result, there has been a gap in the registration of publications published aborad, which were registered electronically or in a fragmentary manner. The purpose of this bibliography is to collect and systematise all information about publications of Lithuanian sheet music since 1990, published both in Lithuania and abroad, and to describe them according to international standards. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 9786090212349
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Ulrich Beck
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Other title information: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
Annotation: This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
Identifier: 9783319049892
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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Tuning the Self
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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour
Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.
Identifier: 9783034313780
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On Musical Self-Similarity
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- intersemiosis as synecdoche and analogy
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Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.
Identifier: 9789525431322
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Utwory
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- inspiracje, interpretacje
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Other title information: Muzyka Wobec Poezji i Nauczania Karola Wojtyły i Jana Pawła II
Annotation: The second volume of publishing series carried out by the Academy of Music in Krakow in cooperation with the John Paul II Institute of Intercultural Dialogue in Krakow includes articles presenting the results of research on works that are in various ways related to the person of the Polish Pope.
Identifier: 9788362743087
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Jakobson and Peirce: Translational intersemiosis and symbiosis in opera
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.04
Principles of pitch organization in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle
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Annotation: The book stems from the author's thesis, which attempts to demonstrate the usefulness of incomporating tonal and modal elements into a pitch-web analysis of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Identifier: 9789521038372
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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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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Механизмы переложения "на наши (русские) нравы" итальянских оперных либретто [Mechanisms of adaptation “to our (Russian) customs” of Italian opera librettos]
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.16
Essai sur la représentation du drame musical
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- Wieland Wagner in memoriam
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Annotation: This common-sense evidence that music and the stage are consubstantial in the Lyric Theatre, that they necessarily operate in symbiosis, this evidence also says, in a double sense, that their union is in no way obvious in itself, that it is a problem for both. The theoretical sketches that make up this essay bear witness to the singular link between event and truth, between music and representational stage, that Wieland Wagner was able to establish for the first time in the history of the Lyric Theatre.
Identifier: 2738466389
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Signifier and signified: Between insignifiance and operability
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.297
Cooperative organization of Japanese conversation
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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The semiotics of theater
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Notes: Originally published in three volumes as Semiotik des Theaters (1983)
Annotation: The theater is a particularly privileged semiotic object. Unlike literature or painting which operate within a single sign-system, theater combines a variety of sign-systems - language and gesture, costume and decoration, music and lighting - each of which generates meaning according to different principles. This complexity creates special challenges for understanding theater as a meaning-generating system. Erika Fischer-Lichte's book examines each of the sign-systems of the theater and investigates the ways they relate to one another. The result is a brilliant articulation of a semiotics of theater
Identifier: 0253322375
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Old Regnas et le droit chemin: Analyse sémiotique et opérateurs topologiques
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.319
Andy Warhol: Enigma, icon, master
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.253
Performing the ‘real’ and ‘impossible’ in the British traveling circus
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.193
Possible worlds in literary theory: A game in interdisciplinarity
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.277
Reality, the museum, and the catalogue: A semiotic Interpretation of early German texts of museology
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.265
Review article
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.299
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.u
Thinking is seeing: Visual metaphors and the nature of abstract thought
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.221
Visual texture as a semiotic system
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.3-4.239
Erving Goffman’s sociology as a semiotics of postmodern culture
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.191
Ingarden’s ‛strata-layers’ theory and the structural analysis of traditional Chinese Kunqu opera
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.74.1-2.25
Kenneth Burke’s contribution to a theory of language
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.245
L’abstrait et le concret d’Artaud: Hiéroglyphes, gestes é(cri)ts, espace(s) rythmique(s) de la représentation cruelle
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.171
La Cendrillon de Dwight Bolinger
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.217
Predictive aspects of nonverbal courtship behavior in women
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.205
Toward a semiotics of manipulation: Jesuit-Huron relations in seventeenth-century New France
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.76.3-4.147
Convention, Translation, and Understanding
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- Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
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Annotation: This book surveys theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to the discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.
Identifier: 0887066739
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Ethnomusicological aspects
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.257
Foreword
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.1
Music and other arts
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.109
Musicological approaches to musical semiotics
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.169
Theoretical issues
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.5
Significs and Language
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Notes: With an introduction by H. W. Schmitz
Annotation: This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4, 1893), and ‘Sense, Meaning and Interpretation’ (reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18, 1896), and a selection of several noteworthy and unpublished essays. In the introduction to this volume the editor H. Walter Schmitz exemplifies how Lady Welby developed her significs in discussion and cooperation with numerous highly divergent scientists and scholars of her times; how her ideas influenced other scholars in Europe and the US; and how significs sank to near oblivion and was finally recovered.
Identifier: 9789027232755
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Palimpsestes
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- la littérature au second degré
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Annotation: Un palimpseste est litéralement, un parchemin dont on a gratté la première inscription pour lui en substituer une autre, mais où cette opération n'a pas irrémédiablement effacé le texte primitif, en sorte qu'on peut y liter l'ancien sous le nouveau, comme par transparence. Cet état de choses montre, au figuré, qu'un texte peut toujours en cacher un autre ,ais qu'il le dissimule rarement tout à fait, et qu'il se prête le plus souvent à ine double lecture où se superposent, au moins un hypertexte et son hypotexte - ainsi, dit-on l'Ulysse de Joyce et l'Odysée d'Homère. J'entends ici par hypertextes toutes les œvres dérivées d'une œvre antérieure, part transformation, comme dans la parodie, ou par imitation, comme dans le pastiche. Mais pastiche et parodie ne sont que les manifestations à la fois les plus visibles et les plus mineures de cette hypertextualité, out littérature au second degré, qui s'écrit en lisant, et dont la place et l'action dans le champ littéraire - et un peu au-delà - sont généralement, et fâcheusement, méconnunes. Jëntreprends ici d'explorer ce territoire. Un texte peut toujours en lire un autre, et ainsi de suite jusqu'à la fin des textes. Celui-ci n'échappe pas à la règle : il l'expose et s'y expose. Lira bien qui lira le dernier. A palimpsest is literally a parchment from which the first inscription has been scratched out to replace it with another, but where this operation has not irremediably erased the original text, so that the old can be read under the new, as if by transparency. This state of affairs shows, figuratively, that a text can always hide another, but that it rarely conceals it completely, and that it most often lends itself to a double reading where at least one hypertext and its hypotext are superimposed - thus, we say, Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey. I mean here by hypertexts all works derived from an earlier work, by transformation, as in parody, or by imitation, as in pastiche. But pastiche and parody are only the most visible and minor manifestations of this hypertextuality, a literature of the second degree, which is written by reading, and whose place and action in the literary field - and a little beyond - are generally, and unfortunately, unknown. I undertake here to explore this territory. One text can always read another, and so on until the end of the texts. This one does not escape the rule: it exposes it and exposes itself to it. He who reads last, will read well. (translated with Google translate)
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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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