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The manner of use, the uses and sub-uses of terms in social sciences: from the functional approach to natural language to applied semiotics and the philosophy of science
Michał Roman Węsierski
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 23-39
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0019
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0019
El arsenal de Clío
Juan Luis Fernández Vega
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- 1 edition
Culture Genueve Ediciones 9788412007084 Available
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Other title information: el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990
Annotation: The book explores the question of how history should be written. It uses different frameworks, borrowing from philosophy, linguistics, politology and other fields from the humanities and social sciences
Identifier: 9788412007084
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Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
Alin Olteanu
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- 1 edition
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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Give Peace a Chant
Dario Martinelli
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- 1 edition
Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Sounds, Societies, Significations
edited by Rima Povilionienė
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- 1 edition
Music Springer Cham 9783319470597 Available
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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Identifier: 9783319470597
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Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
Paul Cobley
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- 1 edition
Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Dordrecht 9789402408577 Available
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Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
Identifier: 9789402408577
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Human Suffering and Quality of Life
Ronald E. Anderson
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400776685 Available
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Other title information: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Annotation: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.
Identifier: 9789400776685
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Ulrich Beck
edited by Ulrich Beck
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Cham 9783319049892 Available
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Other title information: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
Annotation: This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
Identifier: 9783319049892
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Identities
edited by Timan Seebas | Mirjana Veselinovic-Hofman | Tijana Popovic Mladjenovic
Music Faculty of music 9788688619219 Available
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Other title information: The world of Music in Relation to itself
Annotation: This book is a collection of scientific studies by Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Tijana Popović Mlađenović, Tiana Marković, Ivana Ili and Marija Masnikosa. Identities: The World of Music in Relation to Itself is interdisciplinary work in musicology which presents analytical ans synthetic studies of music and cultural identities.
Identifier: 9788688619219
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Music breaks in
edited by Vesa Kurkela | Markus Mantere | Heikki Uimonen
Music Tampereen Yliopisto 9789514479724 Available
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Other title information: essays on music radio and radio music in Finland
Annotation: This book brings together research reports and essays on radio music in Finland. The main focus in the writings is one the breakthrough of popular music in local radioscape. The chapters reaise a number of highly important issues in the resent history of radio breoadcasting in Finland: regulation of broadcasting, ideologies of local radio, concentration of ownership, homogenisation of musical contant, patterns of change in radio speech, and processes of music selection. This book is an outcome of the reseach project "Music Cultures and Corporate Cultures: Changes in Music Broadcasting in Finland, 2963-2005", financed by the Academy of Finland.
Identifier: 9789514479724
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Prospects of Legal Semiotics
edited by Anne Wagner | Jan Broekman
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- 1 edition
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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The Logos of the Bios 1
Günther Witzany
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
Biology / Biosemiotics Umweb publications 9525576019 Available
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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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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
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Analyzing cultures
Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron
Culture Indiana University Press 0253335671 Available
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Other title information: An introduction and handbook
Annotation: Analyzing Cultures is a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines, including introductory courses in semiotics, courses in cultural studies, anthropology courses on culture, social science courses on human nature.
Identifier: 0253335671
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Novel science; or, How contemporary social science is not well and why literature and semeiotic provide a cure
KENNETH LAINE KETNER
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.33
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.
Identifier: 3110122081
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Ideology and Modern culture
John B. Thompson
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- Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
Social Polity Press 0745600816 Available
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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.
Identifier: 0745600816
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The iconography of landscape
edited by Denis Cosgrove | Stephen Daniels
Space Cambridge University Press 0521324378 Available
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Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society
Identifier: 0521324378
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Semiotics and the Social Sciences: The University of California at San Diego Semiotic Research Project
Bennetta Jules-Rosette; Alain J.-J. Cohen
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 589-602
The Semiotic Web
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A visual and temporal decoding of the pragmatic structure of Jaques le fataliste
JANE P. KAPLAN
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.273
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Clouds, camels, chalk, and cheese
ADAM KENDON
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.365
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Elements of symbolic history, Part l
MARVIN BRAM
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.211
Phytosemiotics
MARTIN KRAMPEN
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.187
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.187
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.309
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The golden age of semiotics according to Miguel de Unamuno
MONIQUE MOSER-VERREY
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.299
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.36.3-4.299