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Journal Article 2021

The element of surprise in Peirce’s double consciousness paradigm

Donna E. West

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243

Pages
11-47

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0122

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0122

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Journal Article 2018

A report on the conference “Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature and Culture”

Zdzisław Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives

Pages
617-629

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.10

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.10

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Journal Article 2018

Can semiotics be used to drive paradigm changes in medical education?

John Tredinnick-Rowe

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives

Pages
491-516

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.05

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.05

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Journal Article 2018

Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?

Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
319-342

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06

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Book 2016.0

From Grammar to Discourse

Zdzisław Wąsik

Edition
1 edition

Linguistics Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM 9788323230823 Available

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Other title information: Towards a Solipsistic Paradigm of Semiotics

Notes: One of the copies of this book was given to the library by Ludmila Lackova

Annotation: This publication traces the human capacity for sign use from its linguistic and cultural context. Such scholarship suggests the foundation of a discursive paradigm for semiotics stuck in mundane phenomenology, associated inter alia with the contributions of Leo Zawadovski and Ernst Cassirer drawing their inspiration from Karl Buhler.

Identifier: 9788323230823

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Book 2015.0

Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights

Bruce K. Friesen

Edition
1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789401795500 Available

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Annotation: This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems across the globe today? How can we account for the significant change in moral values in one place in less than 100 years’ time? Using examples from classical civilizations, the book demonstrates how increasing diversity compromises a moral system’s ability to account for and integrate larger populations into a single social unit. This environmental stress is not relieved until a broader, more abstract moral system is adopted by a social system. This new system provides a sense of belonging and purpose for more people, motivating them to engage in prosocial (or moral) acts and refrain from socially disruptive selfish acts. The current human rights paradigm is the world’s first universal, indigenous moral system. Because moral systems can be expected to continue to evolve, this book points to current boundaries of the human rights paradigm and where the next major moral revolution might emerge. ​

Identifier: 9789401795500

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Book 2014.0

Semiotic models of legal argumentation

Vadim Verenitš

Edition
1 edition

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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Book 2011.0

On Musical Self-Similarity

Gabriel Pareyon

Dependent title
intersemiosis as synecdoche and analogy

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9789525431322 Available

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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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Book 2007.0

Women and Gift Economy

edited by Genevieve Vaughan

Social Inanna Publications and Education Inc. 9780973670974 Available

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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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Book 2004.0

Systems of musical sense

Fulvio Delli Pizzi | Michele Ignelzi | Paolo Rosato

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essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 9525431061 Available

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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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Book 2002.0

M. K. Čiurlionio

Darius Kucinskas

Dependent title
fortepijoninės muzikos tekstas

Music Lietuvos Muzikos akademija Available

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Other title information: Other title information (genezės aspektas)

Annotation: The purpose of this book is to reveal the genesis of Čiurlionis's piano music trxt. To that end, the general issues of text theory and the very concept of text in the paradigms of structuralism, hermeneutics, phenomenology and reception are discussed at the beginning. Next, the book defines the concept of a musical text, one of the forms of existence of a text, and reveals the essential features of a musical text, consistently revealing the genesis of the piano music text of Čiurlionis.

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Book 2002.0

Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology

Claus Emmeche | Kalevi Kull | Frederik Stjernfelt

Biology / Biosemiotics Tartu University Press 9985566327 Available

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Annotation: This book is about biosemiotics - a paradigm for both biological and semiotic thinking - as approached through the work of one of its pioneers, Jesper Hoffmeyer.

Identifier: 9985566327

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Journal Article 2002

Two approaches to the myth of city foundations: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic

Kestutis Nastopka

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2

Pages
503-512

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.09

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.09

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Book 2001.0

Global Semiotics

Thomas A. Sebeok

General Semiotics Indiana University Press 025333957X Available

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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."

Identifier: 025333957X

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Intimacy: From an optic to a semiotic paradigm

Gordana Jovanovic

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1139-1142

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

La contribution de la semiotique aux processus de prise de decision marketing: Esquisse d’un renouveau paradigmatique

Patrick Hetzel

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1215-1218

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotic foundations of the cognitive paradigm

Winfried Noth

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
785-788

Semiotics Around the World

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Journal Article 1997

The semiotics of a phenomenological research paradigm for investigating the evolution and ontogenesis of cultural norm-systems in distributed virtual environments

PATRICK JOHN COPPOCK

In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.235

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.3-4.235

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Book 1994.0

The human use of signs

John Deely

Dependent title
or, Elements of Anthroposemiosis

General Semiotics Rowman & Littlefield Publisher 0847678040 Available

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Annotation: An impressive synthesis of semiotics and anthropology which puts human experience in a new light. Deely gives us the foundation for a new paradigm for anthropology.

Identifier: 0847678040

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Journal Article 1990

Degeneracy: A reading of Peirce's writing

DINDA L. GORLÉE

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.71

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.71

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Journal Article 1990

Publications received

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.179

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.179

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Journal Article 1990

Review article

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.93

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.93

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Journal Article 1990

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.u

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.u

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Journal Article 1990

The dragon and the straightedge, part 1: A semiotics of the Chinese response to European pictorial space

RICHARD M. SWIDERSKI

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-42

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1990

Visual representation of verbal structures

WALTER REWAR

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.43

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.43

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Journal Article 1989

Principes et paradigmes de la recherche cognitive

FRANÇOIS RASTIER

In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.27

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.1-3.27

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Journal Article 1988

Interface design: A semiotic paradigm

MIHAI NADIN

In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.69.3-4.269

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.69.3-4.269

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Journal Article 1987

Circumspection in psychotherapy: Structures and strategies of counselor-client interaction

MARK PEYROT

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249

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Journal Article 1987

Duel de significations dans les soleils des indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma

PETER IGBONEKWU OKEH

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.295

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Journal Article 1987

Kriemhilt’s face work: A sociolinguistic analysis of social behavior in the Nibelungenlied

LANA RINGS

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.317

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.317

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Journal Article 1987

Limits of Innovation in dance and mime

ANYA PETERSON ROYCE

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.269

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Journal Article 1987

Of position papers, paradigms, and paradoxes

FLOYD MERRELL

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.191

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.191

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Journal Article 1987

Proxemic patterns, social structures, and world view

MIHÁLY HOPPÁL

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.225

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.225

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Journal Article 1987

Review article

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.327

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Journal Article 1987

Semiotics and Education: An Instance of the “New” Paradigm

Donald J. Cunningham

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 2

Pages
195-199

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 1987

The effects of play contexts on the development of preschool children’s verbalized fantasy

ANTHONY D. PELLEGRINI

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.285

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.285

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Journal Article 1984

The Interpretation of pronominal paradigms: Speech situation, pragmatic meaning, and cultural structure

HERVÉ VARENNE

In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.221

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.221

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Journal Article 1981

The Saussurean paradigm: Fact or fantasy?

W. KEITH PERCIVAL

In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.1-2.33

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.1-2.33

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Book 1977[1971]

The Structure of the Artistic Text

Jurij Lotman

General Semiotics University of Michigan Available

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