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Journal Article 2022

The Glocal View: Semiopolitical Definitions

Paolo Sorrentino

In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I

Pages
15-47

Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.817

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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.817

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Book 2019.0

Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication

Alin Olteanu

Edition
1 edition

Culture Springer Cham 9783030178826 Available

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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective

Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.

Identifier: 9783030178826

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Book 2019.0

New Localism

Andrew Stables

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1 edition

Social Springer Cham 9783030215781 Available

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Other title information: Living in the Here and Now

Annotation: This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.

Identifier: 9783030215781

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Book 2019.0

Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology

Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva

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1 edition

Social Tartu University Press 9789949032150 Available

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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach

Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of ​​miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values ​​– from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values ​​of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of ​​mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of ​​a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.

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Book 2017.0

Give Peace a Chant

Dario Martinelli

Edition
1 edition

Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available

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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest

Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.

Identifier: 9783319505374

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Book 2017.0

Sounds, Societies, Significations

edited by Rima Povilionienė

Edition
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Music Springer Cham 9783319470597 Available

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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

Identifier: 9783319470597

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Journal Article 2016

Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices

Youzheng Li

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
365-396

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156

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Journal Article 2016

Review of Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary

Dani Kvam

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
259-265

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0087

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0087

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Book 2015.0

Sociocultural crossings and borders

edited by Rūta Stanevičiūtė | Rima Povilionienė

Music Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre | International Musicological Society 9786098071290 Available

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Other title information: musical microhistories

Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.

Identifier: 9786098071290

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Book 2013.0

Are You Stupid?

Mihai Nadin

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Culture Synchron Publishers 9781490525655 Available

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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself

Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.

Identifier: 9781490525655

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Book 2009.0

The Parallax View

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available

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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.

Identifier: 9780262240512

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Book 2008.0

Wholeness and its remainders

Daniele Monticelli

Edition
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General Semiotics Tartu University Press 9789949119349 Available

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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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Book 2006.0

The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction

Marina Grishakova

Edition
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Literature Tartu University Press Available

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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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Book 2005.0

De la întuneric la lumină

Traian D. Stănciulescu

General Semiotics Performatica 9737300009 Available

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Other title information: semiotica iesirii din păcatul originar

Annotation: To outline a semiotics of the original sin of falling into the temptation of lying, disobedience and betrayal, a sin whose signs still disturb the life of the human being, is the primary goal of this book. To come out of the darkness of error, to enter the light of the meaning found through the image and likeness of the Primordial Truth, is defined as an aspiration following a trial given with joy to all who are open to wisdom and love.

Identifier: 9737300009

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Book 2001.0

Theatre at the crossroads of culture

Patrice Pavis

Arts - performing | visual Routledge 0415060389 Available

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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.

Identifier: 0415060389

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Journal Article 2000

Two notorious gentlemen: Haider and Le Pen. Comparing their political discourse — A semiological viewpoint

Georg Schmid

In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages
499-512

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.499

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.499

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Book 1998.0

Communism national & international

edited by Tauno Saarela and Kimmo Rentola

Social Suomen Historiallinen Seura 9517100795 Available

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Annotation: This book addresses the old but controversial question about the extent of uniformity in world communism. Traditional themes like the general party line and the role of prominent personalities are examined from post Cold War perspectives. From political and organisational questions the approach is extended to ideological, cultural and social aspects.

Identifier: 9517100795

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Proceedings Paper 1997

A semiotic approach to the public

Francisco Soto

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1173-1176

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

A semiotic perspective on a cultural deficit explanation for school failure

Joanne Golden and Kathryn A. Davis

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1127-1130

Semiotics Around the World

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Book 1997.0

Bad Attitude/s on trial

Brenda Cossman | Shannon Bell | Lise Gotell | Becki L. Ross

Culture University of Toronto Press 0802076432 Available

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Other title information: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler decision

Annotation: Bad Attitude/s pierces through the thick veil of hypocrisy surrounding the pornography debates in a lively and well-documented examination of the clashes between bodies and state power, detailing the vicissitudes of the pornography issue in a specifically national context.

Identifier: 0802076432

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Cohesion, competition, and critical group size in social groups

Sanda Monica Tataram

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1181-1184

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Collective misunderstandings due to misframings: The cases of Orson Welles (1938) and Philipp Jenninger (1988)

Titus Ensink

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1131-1134

Semiotics Around the World

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Journal Article 1997

Envy and the social construction of political reality in communities

Masao Yamaguchi

In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00

Pages
227-230

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.227

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.227

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Fluency in speech as a measurable sign of language proficiency

Artur Szentgyorgyvari and Artur Szentgyorgyvari Jr.

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1177-1180

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

How do sex, age, settlement type, education and parental background influence the knowledge of proverbs in Hungary?

Anna Tothne Litovkina

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1147-1150

Semiotics Around the World

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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

Law at the border

Roberta Kevelson

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1143-1146

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Les effets du contexte sur la gestuelle dans le discours politique

Gabriel Argentin and Peter S. Kirkpatrick

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1115-1118

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Political semantics

Vyara Nicolova

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1155-1156

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Political ways in Argentina: An approach through Peircean categories

Graciela B. de Busaniche and Adriana Gonzalo

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1123-1126

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Seeking a semantic synthesis across cultures with public information symbols

Wendy T. Olmstead

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1157-1160

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semi-orality and semi-literacy in legal institutions as “super-signs”: Analyzing Dutch trial courtroom interaction

Christoph Sauer

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1165-1168

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotic hegemonies: Gramsci’s project of a socio-semiotics

Josef Wallmannsberger and Brigitte Huter

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1185-1190

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotics in Romania: Political implications

Pia Brinzeu

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
133-136

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotics to facilitate interaction

Marie J. Myers

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1151-1154

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotique et symbolique dans Facundo, de Sarmiento

Jose Sazbon

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1169-1172

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Signs in the attic: Courts in material life

John Brigham

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1119-1122

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Signs of gender: Building symbols of self

Linda Rogers and Linda McDonald

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1161-1164

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

The social imaginary: A sociosemiotic approach

Fernando Andacht

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1111-1114

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

The Treaty of Maastricht—A signal for a new state?

Ingo J. Hueck

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1135-1138

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Book 1996.0

Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel

Paul Perron

Dependent title
a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk

Literature University of Toronto Press 0802009263 Available

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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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Book 1994.0

The Language of Vision

Jamake Highwater

Culture Grove Press 0802133460 Available

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Other title information: Meditations on Myth and Metaphor

Annotation: Jamake Highwater,the best-selling author of Myth and Sexuality and the Primal Mind, continues his voyage into the realms of myth, art and contemporary culture exploring the way society views its art and artists and the way our art and artists gaze back at us. Organized around the twenty-two cards of the Tarot Major Arcana, this book presents a dazzling range of controversial subjects, including the puritan division of art into hight and low and the direct influence of "popular" forms in contemporary artists, the image of the homosexual as outlow, iconography as destiny, imagination as political powe, the reinvetion of the past and thriumph of the dream life.

Identifier: 0802133460

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Book 1993.0

Landscape

Edited by Barbara Bender

Space Berg 0854963731 Available

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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives

Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested

Identifier: 0854963731

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Journal Article 1993

Novel science; or, How contemporary social science is not well and why literature and semeiotic provide a cure

KENNETH LAINE KETNER

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33

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Journal Article 1993

On the semiosis of corporate culture

LISE BOILY

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.5

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.5

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Journal Article 1993

Review article

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.107

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Journal Article 1993

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.u

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Journal Article 1993

The many voices of laughter: A new audible-visual paralinguistic approach

FERNANDO POYATOS

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.61

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Journal Article 1993

The production of gesture

KEVIN TUITE

In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.83

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Book 1993.0

Tracing the Semiotic Boundaries of Politics

edited by Pertti Ahonen

Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110135337 Available

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Annotation: The first versions of some of the articles in this book were originally presented at the Workshop of Semiotics of the Colloquium on Language and Politics, University of Helsinki, December 12-15, 1988, but most of the articles were begun only after the workshop. The articles are intended to be representative of the current multiplicity of perspectives in the field of language and politics in general and of the boundaries of semiotic studies on language and politics in particular. Here, both "semiotics" and "politics" are used in their broadest sense.

Identifier: 3110135337

Status: Available