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Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 249-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0097
Sounds and gestures of linguistic reference: the endurance of reality in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 351-374
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0018
Umwelt, Lebenswelt and Dasein seen through the lens of a subjective experience of reality
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 126-142
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.06
Telos and Object
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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis
Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.
Identifier: 9783034320887
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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
Status: Available
Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 371-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0013
Reflections on Creating a Reality: The American Society for Cybernetics in the 1980s
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 28
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Mathematics as a Modeling System
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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Are You Stupid?
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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
Status: Available
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
Status: Available
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
Status: Available
Basics of Semiotics
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- 4 edition
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Semiootika alused
Annotation: Deely's objective is to distil common elements of semiosis from the whole continuum of animate reality (from the plant world to human beings) in order to set up a tagonomy of notions, principles and procedures for understanding the uniqueness of human semiosis.
Identifier: 9949110866
Status: Available
The ontology of espionage in reality and fiction: A case study on iconicity
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 133-162
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.05
Semiotics
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: The basics
Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?
Identifier: 0415265932
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Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 187-202
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.11
Envy and the social construction of political reality in communities
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 227-230
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.227
Poetics of space — architecture between imagination and reality
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 519-522
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The reality of crisis in Discepolo’s Daily Losses
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 441-444
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Michel Colin and the psychological reality of film semiology
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.51
Considérations linguistiques
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.101
Laughter, control-systems, and production management
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.151
On the uses and limits of structural analysis for literary scholarship
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-50
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.1
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 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.163
Semiotics and architecture: Theater and reality in Spain, 1968-1988
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.3-4.237
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.u
Text, frame, discourse
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.51
The ’practices’ of transcription in conversation analysis
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.75
Meaning, Subject, and Reality as Semiotic Foci of Political Research
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 399-446
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The Construction of Reality
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3
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- 312-324
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Experience, signification, and reality: The boundaries of cultural semiotics
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.41.1-4.73
’Baby’ or ’fetus’?: Language and the construction of reality in a manslaughter trial
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 187-220
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.32.3-4.187
A Peircean theory of indexical signs and individuation
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.215
A structuralist looks at chess
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.273
Eléments pour une théâtrologie
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.245
Fuzzy sets in the semiotic of text
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.261
Of metaphor and metonymy
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.289
Review article
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.333
Subliminal signifiers and signifieds in R. Frost’s ’The road not taken’
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.309
The role of speech in the construction of reality
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.31.3-4.197
Reality as Language in the Peircean Semiotic
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.19.3-4.233