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Reading palm-up signs: Neurosemiotic overview of a common hand gesture
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 235-250
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0053
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.
Identifier: 9789949325016
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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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The Edusemiotics of Images
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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot
Notes: a printed version
Annotation: Semetsky’s new book offers a bracing account of Tarot semiotics in view of its deep significance for educational experience. Analyzing the symbolic language of Tarot images that express the intimations of the unconscious, she invites readers to explore novel ways of learning about the nature of ourselves and the world we are situated in. Combining thorough research with an accessible style, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for present and future generations of practitioners, academics and students across disciplines. Pia Brînzeu, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Rector of the Universityof Timis¸oara, Romania; author of Corridors of Mirrors. A sequel to the author’s Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic and Semiotics Education Experience, Semetsky’s new book presents the Tarot sign-system as a school of ethical living. Bringing the philosophies of Peirce, Deleuze, Dewey, Whitehead and Gebser in a dialogue with the cutting-edge science of coordination dynamics, she grounds the art of Tarot in the logic of signs acting across nature, culture and human mind. Building on Noddings’ “maternal factor”, Semetsky demonstrates how the lessons embodied in Tarot symbolism recover the feminine value of relations and contribute to Self~Other integration. Such is the message of Tarot images. The Image is the Message. Igor Klyukanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University, USA; editor, Russian Journal of Communication; author of A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Semetsky’s amalgamation of the techniques of visual communication with the emerging field of edusemiotics is an absolute masterpiece in transdisciplinarity. By forging diverse strands of inquiry into an overall model of how images enhance learning, Semetsky’s new book provokes us to take a fresh look at iconic information and is a required reading for everyone who is engaged with the artand science of visual semiotics at the intersection of nature and culture. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada; editor-in-chief, Semiotica; author of The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice. Finally. An in-depth look at Tarot from within the field of semiotics, a perspective that had been inexplicably overlooked until now. As a language of exile from language, Tarot cards are silent words that became images. Here is a book that turns our thirst for symbols into a learning tool. The sign sings in Inna Semetsky’s work.
Identifier: 9789462090538
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The Parallax View
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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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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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Homo Homini Lupus?
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Other title information: spre o semiotică a discursului politic
Annotation: "Homo homini lupus", the famous line of Plautus, univocally interpreted by philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes, Hume and others, still suggests that man is the only "animal" that attacks his fellow man for reasons other than instinctive ones. At the same time, however, the greed that turns some people into beasts seems to be balanced by opposite attitudes, synthesised by Seneca in the principle "Homo res sacra homini". Between these extremes marked by tears and love, the entire tense history of the human being unfolded. "Quo vadis, homine?", this is the question to which, in order to extinguish potential tensions, the politician owes him an answer, valuing the science of reading the signs that foreshadow the future...
Identifier: 9737303075
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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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Introduction: Re-reading of cultural semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 395-404
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.01
Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology
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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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Reading our world
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Other title information: a guide to practical and theoretical criticism
Annotation: Reading our World is intended to be read as a practical guide to reading and appreciating good writing. It will furnish you with the practical tools you need to deal with literary analysis, including the techniques, and the terminology for practical literary criticism, as well as the broader concepts which underpin the study of literature as an art form. It will show you how to "read your world" in a way that might just change it for you.
Identifier: 9515704618
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The body in language
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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.
Identifier: 0304338052
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The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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A case study in the pragmatics of American theatrical programs
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 215-238
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.215
A semiotic approach to <i>ekphrastic</i> poetry in the English-Chinese comparative context
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 261-280
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.261
Contents/Sommaire Volume 118 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 321-322
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.321
Embedded objects: The Asante goldweight, subjectivity formation, and social control
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 295-306
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.295
Narratives of embodiment: The discursive formulation of multiple bodies
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 239-260
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.239
Nonverbal courtship patterns in women: Rejection signaling — An empirical investigation
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 201-214
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.201
Reading as social interaction: The empirical grounding of reading
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 281-294
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.281
Signs and Symbols
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Other title information: their design and meaning
Notes: Original title in German "Der Manch un seine Sachen" (1928), English translation by Andrew Bluhm
Annotation: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks. This is a compelling study of the nature of signs and how people communicate written by the distinguished typographer Adrian Frutiger; who has illustrated his text with over 2000 line drawings. He reproduces numerous aspects of graphic symbolism from the simplicity of the T-sign to the ornamentation of the Australian aboriginal painting, and comments on the full range of symbols even including modern trademarks and traffic signs. This is the distillation of Frutiger's life's work and compulsory reading for all those interested in graphics, design, art, ornament and communication in general.
Identifier: 0823048268
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.u
The dynamics of verbs
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 307-320
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.307
Stamp semiotics: Reading ideological messages in philatelic signs
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 735-738
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Toward a semiotic reading of modern calligraphy
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1235-1238
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On re-reading Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur: The Launcelot episode
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.1-2.65
Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel
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- a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk
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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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Semiological Reduction
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Other title information: a critique of the deconstructionist movement in postmodern thought
Annotation: This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmodernism in general. The critique focuses on Derrida, but its conclusions may be applied to other major figures in the postmodern tradition who espouse the variant of Saussurean semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs. This book challenges the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots, and does so on the basis of a diligent reading of central texts and an understanding of the tradition of Continental philosophy providing the context for Derridian thought
Identifier: 079142376X
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Text segmentation and levels of interpretation: Reading and rereading the biblical story of Joseph
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.3-4.273
Signs of Life in the USA
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- Readings On Popular Culture For Writers
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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.
Identifier: 031209020X
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Introducing Semiotics
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Other title information: An Anthology of Readings
Annotation: The purpose of this anthology is to provide students taking semiotics for the first time, as well as the general reader, with material that will give them an overview of what semiotics is an does. Classic works, such a R. Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics, C.S. Peirce, Logic an Semiotic: The Theory of Signs and S.K. Langer, Discursive and Presentational forms, as well as original pieces wirtten specifically for this antology, allow the student a glimpse into what semiotics is, who some of its founders and practitioners are, and how to think semiotically.
Identifier: 0551300044
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Paralinguistic character structure in popular syndicated television: 2n TV
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.47
Psychosemiotic transformation in the arts
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.25
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.83
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.u
The sign of a tale: The literary symbol in a classroom context
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.35
Theatrical conventions: A semiotic approach
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.1
The historian in the labyrinth of signs: Reconstructing cultures and reading texts in the practice of intellectual history
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 351-384
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.351
“It Must Be a Personating of Himself”: Misreading and Autosemiotization in Timon of Athens
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1990, Volume 7, Issue 1/2
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- 69-88
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Degeneracy: A reading of Peirce's writing
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.71
Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Reading for Readers
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1990, Volume 7, Issue 3
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- 113-116
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Reading the Social Text
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1990, Volume 7, Issue 1/2
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- 145-151
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A group model of Ndembu color symbolism
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.121
Continuing the Conversation regarding Myth and Culture: An Alternative Reading of Barthes
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 183-197
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Disembodiment: The phenomenology of the body in medical examinations
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.43
Mathematical puns, metaphors, and discovery in The Crying of Lot 49
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 85-100
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.85
Naomi Schor, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 299-305
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Possible worlds in linguistic semantics
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-24
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.1
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 183-189
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.183
Reading in the classroom context: A semiotic event
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.67