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Methodological Foundations of Eero Tarasti's Musical Semiotics
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Notes: preface by Eero Tarasti
Annotation: This book is an introduction to Eero Tarasti's works on music, as well as musical semiotics in general. It covers a wide range of sources from multiple disciplinary fields in order to familiarize the reader with the basic language and common references of semiotic inquiries in music. Starting with the basics of structural and Peircean semiotics, theories of discourse, topic theory and others, and their application to music, the book moves on to discuss their interpretation in Tarasti's decade-long oeuvre.
Identifier: 9789526906157
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Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
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Other title information: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure
Annotation: The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. The book concerns the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It briefly reviews the historical schools of modern semiotics and then focuses on the Saussurean theory of the language system, the principles of narrative analysis as developed by A. J. Greimas, and the extension of this theoretical framework to the understanding of communication and the social nature of semiotic systems. It emphasizes the operational aspects of semiotics and matters of methodology and techniques, including the initiative of quantitative analysis.
Identifier: 9783110991581
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(Re)considering Roman Jakobson
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Annotation: This book was initiated by a graduate course of Elin Sütiste about semiotics of Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), given in the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. The contributions include articles by the doctoral students as well as co-lectures, visiting scholars and colleagues. These seminars affirmed that Jakobson was truly an ambitious, forward-thinking scholar who exerted himself to establish semiotics as a discipline. Though Jakobson identified himself as a philologist, he played a pivotal role in the development and institutionalization of semiotics. Jakobson’s ability to grasp the potential of new ideas and to inspire others was remarkable. Juri Lotman has commented that “Wherever his fate of a mid-20th-century man took him, everywhere Jakobson attracted a group of scientists that soon grew into a scientific centre of global importance”.
Identifier: 9789949036301
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On how to legitimately constrain a semantic theory
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 97-127
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0014
Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 249-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0097
Semiotic analysis of symbolic logic using tagmemic theory: with implications for analytic philosophy
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 171-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0018
An Invitation to Creative Reflection
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Building Communication Theory From Cybersemiotics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 181-231
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Evolution and Communication: Heterodox Rethinkings
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Semiotics and its Masters
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Notes: Authors in the collection: Paul Cobley, Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio, Youzheng Li, Marcel Danesi, Göran Sonesson, Gianfranco Marrone, Alexandros Ph. Logopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, François Jost, José Luis Fernández, Patrizia Violi, Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Ugo Volli, Farouk Y. Seif, John Deely, Eero Tarasti, Dinda L. Gorlée, Isabella Pexxini, Anne Hénault
Annotation: This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessubly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized.
Identifier: 9781501511752
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Some 19th Century Problems Of Evolution (1965)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Virtual Logic: The Logic of Quantum Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
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Annotation: this book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not.
Identifier: 9783034322508
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Can Pragmatists Believe in Qualia?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Column on Transdisciplinary Realism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Grand Hotel Abyss
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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
Identifier: 9781784785697
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Helpful Feedback
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Identifying the meanings hidden in legal texts: The three conditions of relevance theory and their sufficiency
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0005
Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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New Visual Hermeneutics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Rethinking semiotics: Toward a theory of intentional sign
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 167-189
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0065
The problem of the modern and tradition
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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)
Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.
Identifier: 9789526825779
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Three Levels of Semiosis: Three Kinds of Kinds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Toward a Recursive Theory of Everyday Double Binds
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Towards a teleo-semiotic theory of individuation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0103
Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of<i>the other</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0031
Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Heroizability
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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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Opposition theory and computational semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.01
The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.10
Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
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Semiotic models of legal argumentation
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Notes: Articles included: Charles Sanders Peirce, A Mastermind of (Legal) Arguments (2012), On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law (2011), The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning (2012), The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice (2013), The Splendors and MIseries of Constitutional Reasoning in Times of Global Crisis: A Critical look from the Realist Perspectives of Semiotics (2013)
Annotation: The present doctoral dissertation is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism and construction, and this is the result of a project conceived ten years ago. We have taken different traditions of legal reasoning, and by juxtaposing them have sought to clarify and assess semiotic presuppositions, in order to outline a theoretical framework of legal semiotics that would help to lay the foundations for semiotic theory of legal argumentation. These semiotic presuppositions have been the object of our study at the University of Tartu since our bachelor's thesis (defended in 2001) and master's thesis (defended in 2006). Our interest in legal semiotics was motivated by a very strong sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional methods and paradigms of contemporary jurisprudence, especially with those ones of legal argumentation. Traditional jurisprudence committed to a model of legal unity, does not for the most part seeks to describe how the views of legal actors interact with the views of other legal actors/participants of legal discourse in real situations of legal communication. Thus, it was the consideration of legal communication as a semiotic activity that caused us to doubt that law could be conceived in terms of traditional legal concepts. Legal semiotics can be regarded as a major advance because it debunks the prevailing assumptions about the nature of legal reasoning and replaces them with what seems a far superior explanation. The main scientific objectives of this dissertation can be briefly formulated as follows: 1) to develop a conceptual framework for practical handling of complex problems of legal argumentation as they occur in the stages of legal communication; 2) to assess issues of compatibility/conflict between existing methods of legal reasoning and our semiotic model of legal reasoning; 3) to bridge the compatible aspects of different theories/models of legal argumentation to establish a generalizable model of legal argumentation.
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Ulrich Beck
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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.
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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The Edusemiotics of Images
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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot
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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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Tuning the Self
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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour
Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.
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Jakobsonova sémiotická teorie
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Notes: Two of the books in this collection are inherited from Ludmila Lackova
Annotation: In my thesis I present some critical commentary on the semiotic theory of Roman Jakobson. This theory I view as an effort to establish, consolidate and widen of the nomothetic principle by using semiotic terms. In my view, to describe the basis of Jakobson?s semiotic theory means to describe the basic characteristics of his use of the terms sign, code and communication. With reference to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Nelson Goodman and François Rastier I introduce three semiotic frames, i.e. the general descriptions of meaning from semiotic/sign perspective. These frames I see as a mechanism of privileging certain kinds of question with certain privileged terms, i.e. sign, code and communication are seen as models that highlight speci%c problematic areas and simultaneously relegate others. I try to locate Roman Jakobson?s theory in these frames with emphasis on the model and de%nition of sign. The concept of sign as a complex signum or combination of its components is highlighted or distorted to suit the preferences of a particular frame. The result of this work is the description of the Jakobson?s conceptual relations between semiotic terms as the consequences of attempts to establish nomothetical approach across the semiotic frames.
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The Shared Mind
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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.
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Cykl sceniczny "Licht" Karlheinza Stockhausena
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Other title information: muzyczny teatr świata
Annotation: Analysing the subject matter and content of Licht, as well as its message and the means of expression employed, it is difficult not to discern the unification, within a single work, of what might appear to be contrasting musical genres and kinds of theatre (mystery play, expressionist drama, happening).
Identifier: 9788387182939
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Lotman’s scientific investigatory boldness: The semiosphere as a critical theory of communication in culture
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.03
On Musical Self-Similarity
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Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.
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Russian Formalist Criticism
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
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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.
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What is 'the subject' the name for? The conceptual structure of Alain Badiou’s theory of the subject
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.02
Analogical associations in the frame of a “neoclassical” semiotic theory
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.02