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Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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Telos and Object
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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis
Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.
Identifier: 9783034320887
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Food design: Symbols of our daily nutrition
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 355-369
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101
The Edusemiotics of Images
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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
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Symbol i Muzyka
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Annotation: This book is an entry into the symbolicism of music. The book consists of three chapters. In the first, I deal with the concept of the symbol itself. I discuss its genesis, history changing understanding, and above all - it's functioning in contemporary thought in such fields as sociology, cultural anthropology, semiotics or semiology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and musicology. In the second chapter I present the problem of symbol and meaning in European music in a historical outline. The third chapter is my analysis of musical interpretations.
Identifier: 9788362743018
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Vietnam Tourism
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Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.
Identifier: 0789025701
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Signs and Symbols
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Other title information: their design and meaning
Notes: Original title in German "Der Manch un seine Sachen" (1928), English translation by Andrew Bluhm
Annotation: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks. This is a compelling study of the nature of signs and how people communicate written by the distinguished typographer Adrian Frutiger; who has illustrated his text with over 2000 line drawings. He reproduces numerous aspects of graphic symbolism from the simplicity of the T-sign to the ornamentation of the Australian aboriginal painting, and comments on the full range of symbols even including modern trademarks and traffic signs. This is the distillation of Frutiger's life's work and compulsory reading for all those interested in graphics, design, art, ornament and communication in general.
Identifier: 0823048268
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“Symbols grow” II
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 87-94
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Between signs and symbols: An economic distinction?
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1015-1018
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Joining different worlds: Symbols and the quest for unity
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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Observing the structures of symbols from Chinese Yijing
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1247-1250
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Seeking a semantic synthesis across cultures with public information symbols
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1157-1160
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Signs of gender: Building symbols of self
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1161-1164
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Beyond the symbol model
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Other title information: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language
Annotation: Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language presents arguments on several sides of the contemporary debate over the representational nature of language. Contributors include philosophers, linguists, psychologists, semioticians, and communication theorists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The chapters respond to the argument that language can no longer be viewed as a system of signs or symbols, and that a post-semiotic account can be developed from the recognition that language is first and foremost constitutive articulate contact.
Identifier: 0791430839
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The Swastika
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- Constructing the Symbol
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- 1 edition
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Annotation: By identifying the swastika as a bounary or liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual analysis to issues of material culture and history.
Identifier: 041510095X
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Name, Hero, Icon
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Other title information: Semiotics of Nationalism through Heroic Biography
Annotation: The main focus of this project, when it was undertaken in 1987, was on name as sign and hero as icon. Since the completion of the work in 1988, dramatic changes have occurred in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. Through them, one may observe the unpredictable power of signs and symbols and their profound impact on the collective psyche. Masses of people are involved in the destruction of the old icons and the formation of new ones. Here our semiotic lenses are focused on the role of symbolic, on the power of the name-sign, and on the display of its semiotic constant.
Identifier: 3110130122
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Stardom and symbolic degeneracy: Television and the transformation of the stars as public symbols
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-48
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.1
Changes in ideological models
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.247
Do we make worlds with symbols?
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.277
Review article
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.305
Shifters and deixis: Some reflections on Jakobson, Jespersen, and reference
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.193
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.u
The lost territory: Parables of exile in Julia Kristeva
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.231
Urban indices
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.86.3-4.289
S/Z
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Annotation: S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning.
Identifier: 0631176071
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Written symbols: East and West
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.58.1-2.101
Semiotics and the philosophy of language
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
Identifier: 0253351685
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SYMBOLS GROW: CREATION, COMPULSION, CHANGE
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 3, Issue 1
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The Subject of Semiotics
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Annotation: Through the writings of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and others, the kindred disciplines of semiotics and structuralism have stirred enormous interest within European and American intellectual circles in recent years. With their focus on the ways in which signs, symbols, and cultural phenomena of all kinds convey meaning, these burgeoning theoretcial fields have had a special impact on the analysis of fil and literature. In this provocative book Kaja Silverman undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
Identifier: 9780195031782
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Communicative Patterns at French Marketplaces
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.279
Measuring Some Semantic and Pragmatic Variables in the Speech of Two Men in Psychotherapy
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.229
Representational Symbol Systems
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.333
Review Article
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.343
Spatial, Semantic, and Evolutionary Analysis of an Animal Signal: Inciting by Female Mallards
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.193
The Carter Campaign in Retrospect: Decoding the Cartoons
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.307
The Intrinsic Dynamics of the Syntax of the Visual Sign (in Reference to Representative and Abstract Art)
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.303
Too Many, Too Few: Ritual Modes of Signification
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.291
We Drank Wine, We Talked, and a Good Time Was Had By All
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.23.3-4.243
L'obvie et l'obtus
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- Essais critiques III
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- 2nd
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Annotation: The symbolic meaning imposes itself on me by a double determination: it is intentional (this is what the author meant) and it is taken from a sort of general, common lexicon of symbols: it is a meaning that goes to meet me. I propose to call this complete sign the obvious meaning. As for the other meaning, the third, the one that comes 'in excess', like a supplement that my intellect cannot quite absorb, at once stubborn and fleeting, smooth and eluding, I propose to call it 'the obtuse meaning.' --Roland Barthes
Identifier: 2020146096
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