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The culinary and social-semiotic meaning of food: Spicy meals and their significance in Mexico, Italy, and Texas
Alfredo Tenoch Cid Jurado
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 247-269
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0108
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0108
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
Status: Available
The Edusemiotics of Images
Inna Semetsky
Social Sense Publishers 9789462090538 Available
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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
Status: Available
The significance-effect is a communicational effect: Introducing the DynaCom
Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sørensen, Martin Thellefsen
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 209-223
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.07
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.07
Song and significance
Dinda L. Gorlée
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- 1 edition
Music Rodopi 9042016876 Available
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Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation
Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.
Identifier: 9042016876
Status: Available
History and significance of Jakob von Uexküll and of his institute in Hamburg
Torsten Rüting
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 35-72
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.02
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.02
Signs and the design of life – Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
Torsten Rüting
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 379-383
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
The savage mind
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Culture Oxford University Press 0297995235 Available
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Notes: Originally published in 1962
Annotation: Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies
Identifier: 0297995235
Status: Available
On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture
Zdzisław Wąsik
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 83-106
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance
Gwendolyn S. O’Neal
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 307-310
Semiotics Around the World
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The semiotic significance of ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’
DAVID K. DANOW
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.3-4.337
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.3-4.337
Theories of literature in the twentieth century
Douwe Fokkema | Elrud Ibsch
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- 2 edition
Literature St. Martin's Press 0312124481 Available
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Other title information: structuralism, Marxism, aesthetics of reception, semiotics
Annotation: This book takes stock of the major theoretical schools which hold sway over literary studies in the present age. Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, and Semiotics are discussed in relation to their historical context and their present significance.
Identifier: 0312124481
Status: Available
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
Frederic Jameson
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- 1 edition
Culture Verso 9780860915379 Available
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
Status: Available
The invariant code-significance of lexical items
ALAN D. MANNING
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 101-120
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.101
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.101
English color terms: Language, culture, and psychology
CARL MILLS
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.95
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.95
Guest editorial
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-6
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.1
Position paper
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.7
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.7
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.157
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.157
Review article
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.119
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.119
Rezension
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.111
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.111
Signs, singularities and significance: A physical model for semiotics
F. EUGENE YATES; PETER N. KUGLER
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.49
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.49
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.u
The postmodern condition
Jean-François Lyotard
Culture University of Minnesota Press 0719014506 Available
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Other title information: a report on knowledge
Notes: Translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, foreword by Frederic Jameson. Originally published in France as La Condition postmoderne: rappot sur le savoir (1979)
Annotation: Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages
Identifier: 0719014506
Status: Available
What does semiotics come from?
ALAIN REY
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.79
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.52.1-2.79
What is Meaning?
Victoria Lady Welby
General Semiotics John Benjamins Publishing company 9027232725 Available
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Other title information: Studies in the Development of Signifcance
Notes: Reprint of the edition London, 1903, with an Introductory essay by Gerrit Mannoury and a Preface by Achim Eschach.
Annotation: In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term significs . One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as the Sense of a word, but only the sense in which it is used the circumstances, state of mind, reference, universe of discourse belonging to it. The Meaning of a word is the intent which it is desired to convey the intention of the user. The Significance is always manifold, and intensifies its sense as well as its meaning, by expressing its importance, its appeal to us, its moment for us, its emotional force, its ideal value, its moral aspect, its universal or at least social range." This facsimile of the 1903 edition of "What is Meaning" is accompanied by an essay on "Significs as a Fundamental Science" by Achim Eschbach, and "A Concise History of Significs" by G. Mannoury.
Identifier: 9027232725
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Art and Ideology: The Communicative Significance of Some Urban Art Forms in Africa
BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.1
Philosophy in a new key
Susanne K. Langer
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- 3 edition
Culture Harvard University Press 0674665031 Available
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Other title information: A Study in the symbolism of reason, rite and art
Annotation: The central problem of this interesting book is to ascertain precisely the functions served by myth, ritual, and especially the arts, and to develop an adequate theory of artistic significance. Mrs. Langer's development of her theme within the framework of a general theory of symbolism, in accordance with her conviction that the coming period of creative philosophy will use the distinctions of symbolic analysis as its key concepts is the novel approach of this book.
Identifier: 0674665031
Status: Available