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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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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.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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La Corposphère
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- Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps
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Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.
Identifier: 9783639624175
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Lotman’s scientific investigatory boldness: The semiosphere as a critical theory of communication in culture
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 81-104
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.03
The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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On the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 205-229
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.09
Semiosphere and a dual ecology: Paradoxes of communication
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 175-189
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.07
Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 159-173
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.06
In the quest for novelty: Kauffman’s biosphere and Lotman’s semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 309-327
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.14
Is language a primary modeling system? On Juri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 9-23
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.01
Translation translation
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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Semiosphere: A chemistry of being
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 41-55
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.03
Umwelt and semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 33-40
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.02
Contents/Sommaire Volume 120 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 483-484
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.483
Editor’s Note
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- vii-vii
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.vii
On semiosis, Umwelt, and semiosphere
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 299-310
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On semiosis, Umwelt, and semiosphere
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 299-310
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Review article
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 231-454
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.231
Semiosis and biohistory: A reply
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 455-482
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.455
Semiotic ecology: different nature in the semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 1998, Volume 26
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- 344-371
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1998.26.15
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.u
Totality of semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 1998, Volume 26
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- 417-424
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1998.26.17
The global semiosphere
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 933-936
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 108 (1996)
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.395
Environmental noise as a sign
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.1-2.29
Review article
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.1-2.41
Review article
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.307
Semiotic theory applied to free will, relativity, and determinacy: Or, why the unified field theory sought by Einstein could not be found
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.199
Social semiotics, pragmatics, and the analysis of changing semiospheres: The Israeli case
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.245
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.1-2.u
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.u
The archetypal patterns of discourse
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-28
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.109.1-2.1
The semiotics of improvisation: The pragmatics of musical and verbal performance
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.269
Semiotik
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- Halbband II
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Other title information: Interdisciplinäre und historische Aspekte
Annotation: This collection of papers explore interdisciplinary qualities of semiotics and it's historical development.
Identifier: 3883395552
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A Semiotic Approach to Ritual Drama
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.225
Charles Morris †
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.193
Coding Dramatic Efficiency in Plays: From Text to Stage
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.247
Contents / Sommaire
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.385
Doctor-Patient Conversation: A Way of Analyzing Its Linguistic Problems
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.301
Entering the Semiosphere: The Myth of the First Semiotic Relation
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.313
Gaze and Facial Display in Pedestrian Passing
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.323
Note on Sign Transparency and Performatives
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.327
One Kind of Speech Act: How Do We Know When We’re Conversing?
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.259
Review Article
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.349
Semiotic Elements in Yoruba Art and Ritual
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.333
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.u
The Rhetoric of Liberation Movement Posters
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.195