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Language of Life
Ľudmila Lacková
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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- 1 edition
Philosophy Peter Lang Group 9783631925935 Available
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Notes: general editor of the series Elize Bisanz
Annotation: In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.
Identifier: 9783631925935
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Signs and Spaces
edited by Mihály Szívós
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- Studies in Spatial Semiotics
Space 9786150188676 Available
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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop
Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.
Identifier: 9786150188676
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Give Peace a Chant
Dario Martinelli
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- 1 edition
Music Springer Cham 9783319505374 Available
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
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Gli stili prenatali
Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani
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- Un'estetica psicofisiologica
Biology / Biosemiotics Armando Editore 9788869922787 Available
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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.
Identifier: 9788869922787
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Mimicry and Meaning
Timo Maran
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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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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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Companion to European Heritage Revivals
Edited by Linde Egberts | Koos Bosma
Culture SpringerOpen 9783319077697 Available
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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.
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Wholeness and its remainders
Daniele Monticelli
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General Semiotics Tartu University Press 9789949119349 Available
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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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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Semiotics
Daniel Chandler
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- 1 edition
General Semiotics Routledge 0415265932 Available
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Other title information: The basics
Annotation: Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: what are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices?
Identifier: 0415265932
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Signs in use
Jørgen Dines Johansen | Sven Erik Larsen
General Semiotics Routledge 0415262038 Available
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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics
Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug
Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture
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Reading our world
Mari Peepre | Nely Keinänen
Literature Yliopistopaino / Helsinki University Press 9515704618 Available
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Other title information: a guide to practical and theoretical criticism
Annotation: Reading our World is intended to be read as a practical guide to reading and appreciating good writing. It will furnish you with the practical tools you need to deal with literary analysis, including the techniques, and the terminology for practical literary criticism, as well as the broader concepts which underpin the study of literature as an art form. It will show you how to "read your world" in a way that might just change it for you.
Identifier: 9515704618
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A triple semiosis for the representation of stone tools in archaeology
Giovanna M. Winchkier
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 355-360
Semiotics Around the World
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Semiotic Tools for the Study of Organizational Cultures
Henrik Gahmberg
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 389-404
The Semiotic Web
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A Semiotic Definition of Illness
KATHRYN VANCE STAIANO
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.107
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.107
Art and Ideology: The Communicative Significance of Some Urban Art Forms in Africa
BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-30
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.1
Iconic Equilibrium
W. C. WATT
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.31
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.31
Linguistic Models in Narratology: From Structuralism to Generative Semantics
MARIE-LAURE RYAN
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.127
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.127
Rationality of Language
TY PAK
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.157
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.157
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.u
The Dimensions of Signs, Tools, and Models
JAMES H. BUNN
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.63
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.63
The Metastability of Signs/Metastability as a Sign
CLAUDE GANDELMAN
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.83
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.83
The Relationship Between Encoding-Decoding of Visual Nonverbal Emotional Cues
ROBERT G. HARPER; ARTHUR N. WIENS; JOSEPH D. MATARAZZO
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.171
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.1-2.171