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Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
Alin Olteanu
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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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Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva
Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Mathematics as a Modeling System
Marcel Danesi | Mariana Bockarova
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General Semiotics University of Tartu Press 9789949326105 Available
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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.
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A History of Psycholinguistics
Willem J. M. Levelt
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Linguistics Oxford University Press 9780199653669 Available
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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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Prospects of Legal Semiotics
edited by Anne Wagner | Jan Broekman
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Social Springer Dordrecht 9789048193424 Available
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Annotation: This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Identifier: 9789048193424
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Pragmatism and the forms of sense
Robert E. Innis
General Semiotics Pensylvania State University Press 027102223X Available
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Other title information: language, perception, technics
Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.
Identifier: 027102223X
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Intellectual Effort and Linguistic Work
Kristian Bankov
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- Semiotic and Hermeneutic Aspects of the Philosophy of Bergson
Linguistics International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9519865403 Available
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Annotation: Bergson discusses the questions of philosophic truth in a way that allows an interpretation in terms of contemporary semiotics and hermeneutics. In his famous "Philosophical intuition" he defines this kind of truth as "something simple, infinitely simple, so extraordinarily simple that the philosopher has never succeded in saying it". This dialectic between intuition and its 'saying' is examined as the hermeneutics of understanding and interpretation. At the same time, this study attempts to open new insights in Bergson's philosophy, and especially in his notion of Intellectual Effort. Kristian Bankov, in his essay, considers this concept not only central to Bergson's philosophy, but also a key to the sign-nature of our whole being and existence in the world.
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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
Warren Buckland
Arts - performing | visual Cambridge University Press 0521780055 Available
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Annotation: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of congitive semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz' theories of film enunciation... etc.
Identifier: 0521780055
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Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
Søren Brier
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169
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Semiotics and storytelling
Bronwen Martin
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- an introduction to semiotic analysis
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Literature Philomel Productions 1898685185 Available
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Notes: foreword by Daithi O ROgain
Annotation: Written in a simple and licid manner, Semiotics and Storytelling provides fresh insight into the porcesses underlying the production of meaning its principal aim being to present readers with a method of textual analysis that can be applied to all stories. This method is based on the theories and practice of the Paris School of Semiotics. The book is addressed to teachers and students of literature and of the media as well as to all those with an interest in storytelling and in myth.
Identifier: 1898685185
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Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
Monika Fludernik
Literature Routledge 0415124824 Available
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Annotation: In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest oral study to contemporary experimental fiction. She uses these examples to prove that recent literature, far from heralding the final collapse of narrative, represents the epitome of a centuries long developmental process.
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The eyes of justice
edited by Roberta Kevelson
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- Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics
Social P. Lang 0820422614 Available
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Annotation: The general topic of this book, miscarried justice, is suggested by the title's allusion to the sightlessness of th proverbial representation of justice. Viewpoints from several academic disciplines, e.g. philosophy, sociology, linguistics, criminal justice, literary criticisms, and religious studies, are brought together with theories of law. This collection is not only interdisciplinary, but cross-cultural as well. The common language is 'legal semiotics', in both a Peircean and non_peircean idiolect. This collection is a rich cross-referential research tool for investigators of law and semiotics in all its aspects. -cover
Identifier: 0820422614
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Reader Response to Literature
edited by Elaine F. Nardocchio
Literature Mouton de Gruyter 3110127644 Available
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Other title information: To Empirical Dimension
Annotation: The research reported here lays the groundwork for further empirical investigations of reader response. It also provides new insights into how worlds and structures relate to and reproduce our inner and outer space, how the choice of text and critical approach can predetermine responses, and how interpretation depends in part on the cultural forces we reflect and reproduce. This volume does not present a more or less random sample of texts and studies dealing with reader response. Rather, the writers were selected because of their empirical expertise, and because they approached the study of reader response from a perspective which would provide possible answers as to the nature and pattern of reader response to literature.
Identifier: 3110127644
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Beyond Goffman
Stephen H. Riggins
Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110122081 Available
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Other title information: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction
Notes: Based on a conference held Dec. 1987 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, India.
Annotation: This book is a collection of original articles which endeavours to expand the scope of the theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the social sciences. Most chapters take a critical stand toward his ideas while still recognizing his fundamental contribution to the field. Hence, the title Beyond Goffman. The book is divided into two parts. The first concentrates upon theory and explores Goffman's intellectual heritage (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, the notion of social situation, the relation between micro and macro levels of analysis) and also examines the way his work relates to contemporary theoretical movements (semiotics, postmodernism, deconstructionism, and feminism). The second part of the book probes the insights found in his diverse empirical studies and expands the domain of their applications.
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De la métaphore au métaphorique: Application sur Pierrot de P. Verlaine
CHRISTIANE MORINET
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.331
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How to kill jokes cognitively? The meaning structure of jokes
SHULAMITH KREITLER; IRIS DRECHSLER; HANS KREITLER
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.297
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Les dessous d’une planche: Champ censuré et métalepse optique dans un dessin de Joost Swarte
JAN BAETENS
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.321
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.321
Review article
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.355
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The functional architecture of adaptive cognitive systems with limited capacity
KLAUS FISCHER
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.191
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.191
Toward a socio-logic of the film text
LENA JAYYUSI
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.271
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Toward an anthropology of sight: Ritual performance and the photographic process
DAVID TOMAS
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.3-4.245
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Semiotics and the philosophy of language
Umberto Eco
General Semiotics Indiana University Press 0253351685 Available
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
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Introduction to the reading of Hegel
Alexandre Kojeve
Philosophy Cornell University Press 9780801492037 Available
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Other title information: Lectures on the "phenomenology of spirit"
Annotation: During the years 1933-1939, the Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojeve brilliantly explicated – through a series of lectures – the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the "Phenomenology of Spirit". Based on the major work by Kojeve, this collection of lectures was chosen by Bloom to show the intensity of Kojeve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". More important, for Kojeve was above all a philosopher and not an ideologue, this profound and venturesome work of Hegel will expose the readers to the excitement of discovering a great mind in all its force and power. Alexandre Kojeve was born in Russia and educated in Berlin. After World War II he worked in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as one of the chief planners for the Common Market while also continuing his philosophical pursuits.
Identifier: 9780801492037
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