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Presahy semiotických a kulturálnych štúdií
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Annotation: After a series of recent musical and artistic projects, musician, educator and theorist Július Fujak has also made a name for himself as a journalist. His latest publication is primarily a scientific and pedagogical publication intended for students of humanities, but its broad-spectrum content can provide space for reflection for those interested in diverse views and perspectives on current issues of contemporary culture and art. The publication is divided into two thematic areas: The first area, entitled Overlaps of Semiotic Studies, focuses on the field of semiotics of art, and the second represents Overlaps of Cultural Studies. The leitmotif of Fujak's work is precisely the phenomenon of overlaps between contemporary semiotics and culturology. Both disciplines, subject to development and transformation in current economic, social and cultural realities, find themselves (like many other disciplines) at an imaginary crossroads. They can remain in the closedness of now-outdated theoretical concepts or, in the words of Július Fujak, "become part of a revitalization effort to investigate socially culture-forming phenomena in the intentions of the necessarily complementary interdisciplinary overlap of the postmodern scientific discourse of semiotic and cultural studies". It is precisely the ability to observe and (re)discover mutual overlaps in the aforementioned branches of contemporary humanities that we find in the individual critically reflected topics of Fujak's current book.
Identifier: 9788055820927
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Signs and Spaces
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- Studies in Spatial Semiotics
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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop
Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.
Identifier: 9786150188676
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Semiotics of Law
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 3-4: Italian Semiotics II
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i3-4.852
Semiotics of Space, Semiotics of the City
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 195-224
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.824
Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt (1999-2019)
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- Reprezentačný zborník
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Other title information: 2 dekady oneho umenia v Nitre
Annotation: In Slovakia, especially outside the capital, unconventional art has never been given the space it deserves. It was and is no different in Nitra, where – although it is home to two universities – progressive, experimental and alternative artistic initiatives still do not bloom like roses... They find themselves in an alienated position, often on the fringes of interest, somehow “they cannot come up with a name” – in which case they are called “that” in the local dialect. Perhaps that is why we have chosen the adjective of not another, but “that” art in the title of this publication, which in many ways deviates from the norm, is significantly different, provocative, and at the very least thought-provoking. The monographic publication Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt – 2 two decades of that art in Nitra aims to map retrospectively, in a chronological manner, the entire two decades of the existence of the international cycles, or rather festivals HERMOVO UCHO V NITRE and POSTMUTART, focused from the end of the 20th century to the present precisely on these artistic initiatives, often moving in a taxonomically indefinable interspace – on the border of intermedial overlaps and innovative fusions of new music, visual art, video art, performance, sound art, happening –, testing their limits and crossing the boundaries of discursive and non-discursive symbolism in the period of late postmodernism.
Identifier: 9788055815237
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Spaces and Meanings
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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9783030151676
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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.
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Once upon two cities
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Other title information: A parallel between New York City and Bucharest by 1900
Annotation: This book is an excursion into the past. It deals with two cities: New York and Bucharest in the era between 1865 and 1914. The two cities are representative of the two countries they belong to, but they are also important in themselves, qua cities. This is the era when both cities were being built and began to assert their identities, when they were becoming aware of their assets and starting to talk about them
Identifier: 2016021813
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Revisiting dynamic space in film from a semiotic perspective
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 129-149
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0050
A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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Sociocultural Space
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Other title information: Other title information: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World
Notes: Tiit Remm's PhD dissertation
Annotation: A dissertation about the use of space-related conceptions for studying the sociocultural world
Identifier: 9789949329281
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Lotmanian explosion: From peripheral space to dislocated time
In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.01
Crossing Boundaries
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Other title information: Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family and School
Notes: editor of the series Jaan Valsiner
Annotation: Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Emphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practicies regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems.
Identifier: 9781623963941
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The space of culture
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Other title information: the place of nature in Estonia and beyond
Annotation: This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis
Identifier: 9789949196234
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Пространства и смыслы
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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта
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Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9785864431627
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Space in musical semiosis
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Other title information: an abductive theory of the musical composition process
Annotation: Space in Musical semiotsis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composisiton process, an epitome of musical signification.
Identifier: 9789525431285
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Przestrzeń i muzyka
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Annotation: This essay is the third in a series of works devoted to musical hermeneutics. In the first, I dealt with the basic concepts of music ontology: movement, play, being and time, drawing inspiration from the hermeneutical philosophy of Schleiermacher, Diltey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Then, inspired by the thought of Paul Ricoeur, I analysed the conceptual category of musical narrative. Even then, in these considerations, the category of space appeared many times, inseparable from human experience in its temporal and spatial structure and, as it turns out, inextricably linked to the experience of music. In the reception of music, we are undoubtedly given a certain "temporal" sound-musical space.
Identifier: 9788387182731
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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The Arcades Project
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Annotation: Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris -- glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism -- Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources
Identifier: 0674008022
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The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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‘What shall we eat today, darling?’ Private — Public: Romantic genres in preschool arenas
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 55-80
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.55
‛This precious stone set in the silver sea ...’: Literal and figurative references to jewelry in the plays of William Shakespeare
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 77-96
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.77
Do iconic hand gestures really contribute anything to the semantic information conveyed by speech? An experimental investigation
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.1
Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 567-598
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.567
Expansivité gestuelle et graphique: Problèmes et perspectives de la segmentation du mouvement expressif
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 31-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.31
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 185-188
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.185
Remarques sur la sémiotique de l’image
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 97-114
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.97
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 81-184
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.81
Review article
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 115-210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.115
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.u
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Sur l’analyse sémiotique des textes mathématiques
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.31
Text as a comprehension process: Toward a model of synergism
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.59
Towards a systemic functional analysis of multisemiotic mathematics texts
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.1
Visible signature ('Signatures of the Visible'by Fredric Jameson)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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What is literature? — A systems definition
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 43-58
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.1-2.43
‘About talk’: The category of talk-reflexive words
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.3-4.193
An analysis of features of meaning by Prieto
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 205-216
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.205
Claudia Gonzalez Costanzo
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 119 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 433-433
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.3-4.433
Contents/Sommaire Volume 121 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.3-4.373
Contents/Sommaire Volume 122 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 387-388
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.387
Do iconic gestures have a functional role in lexical access? An experimental study of the effects of repeating a verbal message on gesture production
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 221-250
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.3-4.221
Gender assignment, markedness, and indexicality: Results of a pilot study
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 213-240
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.3-4.213
In memoriam Luis J. Prieto 28 November 1926-31 March 1996
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.169
Incertitudes d’une cohabitation disciplinaire: De la sémiologie aux sciences sociales
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 309-326
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.309
La pragmatique implicite dans l’oeuvre de Luis J. Prieto
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 257-278
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.257
Luis Prieto
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.253
Luis Prieto — Théorie de l’esthétique? Identité et différence d’un quasi-objet: L’oeuvre d’art
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 327-336
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.327
Luis Prieto et les noms propres
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 183-204
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.183