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Journal Article 2021

<b>The use of semiotic resources in traffic policing</b>: a<b>n exploration of genre structure and exchanges in traffic accident handling in China</b>

Qijing Wu; Zhenhua Wang

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242

Pages
169-202

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0149

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0149

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Journal Article 2021

Modèles logiques de la structure élémentaire de la signification: Templum, prisme sémiotique, carré sémiotique, cube sémiotique et autres

Louis Hébert; Arthur Poirier-Roy

In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 238

Pages
91-124

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0096

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Book 2019.0

Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology

Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva

Edition
1 edition

Social Tartu University Press 9789949032150 Available

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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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Journal Article 2018

Impossibly good looks: A pragma-ontological approach to unearthing the latent rhetorical structure of anti-ageing advertising discourse

George Rossolatos

In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3

Pages
216-254

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02

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Book 2017.0

Mimicry and Meaning

Timo Maran

Edition
1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319503158 Available

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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.

Identifier: 9783319503158

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Book 2016.0

La triple chaîne prédicative

Gaëll Guibert | Benoît Sauzay

Edition
1 edition

Linguistics Peter Lang Publishing 9783034320979 Available

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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte

Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)

Identifier: 9783034320979

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Journal Article 2016

The thematic structure of homepages: An exploratory systemic-functional account

Leong Ping Alvin

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210

Pages
105-127

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0048

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Book 2015.0

Heroizability

Ibrahim Taha

General Semiotics De Gruyter 9781501510816 Available

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Other title information: An anthroposemiotic theory of Literary characters

Annotation: It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.

Identifier: 9781501510816

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Journal Article 2014

A methodological framework for projecting brand equity: Putting back the imaginary into brand knowledge structures

George Rossolatos

In: Sign System Studies 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1

Pages
98-136

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.05

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.05

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Book 2012.0

The Shared Mind

edited by Jordan Zlatev | Timothy P. Racine | Chris Sinha | Esa Itkonen

Social John Benjamins Publishing Company 9789027239068 Available

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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.

Identifier: 9789027239068

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Book 2011.0

The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

edited by Jan M. Broekman | Francis J. Mootz

Edition
1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400713406 Available

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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.

Identifier: 9789400713406

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Journal Article 2011

What is 'the subject' the name for? The conceptual structure of Alain Badiou’s theory of the subject

Margus Vihalem

In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages
60-80

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.02

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.02

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Book 2010.0

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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Book 2010.0

Understanding Morphology

Martin Haspelmath | Andrea D. Sims

Edition
2 edition

Linguistics Hodder Education 9780340950012 Available

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Annotation: Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a variety of languages.

Identifier: 9780340950012

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Book 2007.0

Przestrzeń i muzyka

Leszek Polony

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 9788387182731 Available

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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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Book 2007.0

Zoosemiotics

Dario Martinelli

Edition
1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute 9789525431162 Available

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Other title information: proposals for a handbook

Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.

Identifier: 9789525431162

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Book 2006.0

The Logos of the Bios 1

Günther Witzany

Dependent title
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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Book 2002.0

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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Journal Article 2002

The abstract structure of the aesthetic sign

Elize Bisanz

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2

Pages
707-723

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.21

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.21

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Book 2001.0

New science

Giambattista Vico

Edition
3 edition

Philosophy Penguin Book 0140435697 Available

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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations

Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

Identifier: 0140435697

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Journal Article 2000

Narrative structures in culture

Magdolna Orosz

In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages
407-424

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.407

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Book 2000.0

The body in language

Horst Ruthof

General Semiotics Cassell 0304338052 Available

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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.

Identifier: 0304338052

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Journal Article 1998

Ellipsis and the surface structures of verbal and nonverbal metaphor

Eli Rozik

In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
77-104

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.1-2.77

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Observing the structures of symbols from Chinese Yijing

Wenfu Wang

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
1247-1250

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Semiotics and time: Event and history, structure and action

Thomas F. Broden

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages
983-986

Semiotics Around the World

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Journal Article 1997

Structure and meaning

JAROSLAV PEREGRIN

In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.1-2.71

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.113.1-2.71

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Book 1997.0

The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype

You-Zheng Li

Edition
1 edition

Culture Peter Lang Publishing 3631313861 Available

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Parallel title: Parallel title: An Archetype of Chinese Ethics and Academic Ideology

Other title information: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study

Annotation: Intercultural philosophy does not take its starting point from the comparison of different cultures from a neutral point of view, it instead arises through the confrontation with certain features of another culture which distance the philosopher from his or her own tradition, compelling it to be regarded in a new way. In dealing with the origins of Confucian ethics, You-Zheng Li does exactly this. His extensive training in Western Hermeneutics and semiotics enables him to reformulate the set of ethical customs, rituals, rules and strategies formulated 2500 years ago in ancient China. In contrast to Western ethics, which are thoroughly penetrated by the divine commands of the Judeo-Christian tradition and mainly characterized by the search for the practical good and one's own happiness begun in Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese ethics originated and developed largely outside the domains of religion and philosophy. In attempting to elaborate on the specific nature of these ethics, the author navigates between Scylla and Charybdis. He seeks to avoid the one extreme of merely repeating from the inside what has already been said, with its effective reduction of ethical theory to certain reflexes of practical life. Just as well, however, he tries to avoid the other extreme of measuring ancient traditions by external standards and therewith exchanging old prejudices for new ones. He much rather tries to elucidate the foundation of Chinese ethics by using a certain language and a certain method which, as only one language and one method among others, does not aver to exhaust the inherent sense and the efficacious demand of what has been or is still being lived out and practised.

Identifier: 3631313861

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Journal Article 1996

Diagraming discourse structures: Illocution, interaction, or text?

AKIO YABUUCHI

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.110.3-4.197

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Book 1994.0

Musical meaning in Beethoven

Robert S. Hatten

Music Indiana University Press 0253327423 Available

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Annotation: Offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with an analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, this book examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at various levels of structure.

Identifier: 0253327423

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Journal Article 1992

Paralinguistic character structure in popular syndicated television: 2n TV

ALAN D. MANNING

In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.47

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Book 1992.0

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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Collection Article 1992-1993

Subject in Structure: A Comeback?

Michel Costantini

In: Advances in Visual Semiotics: The Semiotic Web 1992-93

Pages
317-334

The Semiotic Web

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Journal Article 1990

Degeneracy: A reading of Peirce's writing

DINDA L. GORLÉE

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.71

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Book 1990.0

Ideology and Modern culture

John B. Thompson

Dependent title
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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Journal Article 1990

L’Infrastructure mythique de l’imaginaire contemporain

GENEVIÈVE CORNU

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-14

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.80.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1990

Publications received

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.179

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Journal Article 1990

Review article

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.93

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Journal Article 1990

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.u

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Journal Article 1990

The dragon and the straightedge, part 1: A semiotics of the Chinese response to European pictorial space

RICHARD M. SWIDERSKI

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
1-42

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.1

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Journal Article 1990

Visual representation of verbal structures

WALTER REWAR

In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.81.1-2.43

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Book 1989.0

Language

Edward Finegan

Edition
3 edition

Linguistics Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0155078275 Available

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Other title information: its structure and use

Annotation: A textbook covering all of the core concepts of linguistics, icluding phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as pragmatics and other fields covering communication and language in use. The book comes with examples covering different languages, and many excercises and resources for further self-study.

Identifier: 0155078275

Status: Available

Journal Article 1989

Transvaluation and Myth: Markedness and the Structure of Elementary Narration

James Jakób Liszka

In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1989, Volume 6, Issue 2/3

Pages
141-181

The American Journal of Semiotics

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Journal Article 1988

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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Journal Article 1987

Circumspection in psychotherapy: Structures and strategies of counselor-client interaction

MARK PEYROT

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249

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Journal Article 1987

Ethnomusicological aspects

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.257

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.257

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Journal Article 1987

Foreword

Eero Tarasti

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Pages
1-4

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.1

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Journal Article 1987

Models of narrative structure

ANN HARLEMAN STEWART

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.64.1-2.83

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Journal Article 1987

Music and other arts

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.109

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.109

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Journal Article 1987

Musicological approaches to musical semiotics

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.66.1-3.169

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Journal Article 1987

On the window structure of narrative discourse

MARIE-LAURE RYAN

In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.64.1-2.59

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.64.1-2.59

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