A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Language of Life
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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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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Presahy semiotických a kulturálnych štúdií
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Annotation: After a series of recent musical and artistic projects, musician, educator and theorist Július Fujak has also made a name for himself as a journalist. His latest publication is primarily a scientific and pedagogical publication intended for students of humanities, but its broad-spectrum content can provide space for reflection for those interested in diverse views and perspectives on current issues of contemporary culture and art. The publication is divided into two thematic areas: The first area, entitled Overlaps of Semiotic Studies, focuses on the field of semiotics of art, and the second represents Overlaps of Cultural Studies. The leitmotif of Fujak's work is precisely the phenomenon of overlaps between contemporary semiotics and culturology. Both disciplines, subject to development and transformation in current economic, social and cultural realities, find themselves (like many other disciplines) at an imaginary crossroads. They can remain in the closedness of now-outdated theoretical concepts or, in the words of Július Fujak, "become part of a revitalization effort to investigate socially culture-forming phenomena in the intentions of the necessarily complementary interdisciplinary overlap of the postmodern scientific discourse of semiotic and cultural studies". It is precisely the ability to observe and (re)discover mutual overlaps in the aforementioned branches of contemporary humanities that we find in the individual critically reflected topics of Fujak's current book.
Identifier: 9788055820927
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Give Peace a Chant
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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.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Sounds, Societies, Significations
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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Identifier: 9783319470597
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The Parallax View
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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New science
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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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Hi-fives
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Other title information: a trip to semiotics
Annotation: The newcomer to semiotics is the primary intended reader of this book. Each of the authors of the various branches of semiotics open this perspective to all who want to know about semiotics, as well as to those who want to add to their knowledge of semiotics. The topics cover the major areas of semiotics and the human sciences: linguistics, theater, psychology, religion, anthropology, history, law, graphics, music, media, poetics, architecture, and a capsule overview of Charles Sanders Peirce. The individual essays develop each specialist's approach to semiotics, with full bibliography for follow-through. The introductory chapter points out the unifying themes that tie the special topics together
Identifier: 0820438421
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Information, its forms and functions
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Other title information: the elements of semiology
Annotation: Taking into account the many forms and purposes of human expression and communication, this study covers such topics as: the recording of information; and the use of signs for the elaboration of ideas. The author argues that language and signs are best understood as a sort of technology
Identifier: 0773486755
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Messages and Meanings
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- An introduction to semiotics
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Annotation: An overview of semiotics applied to different topics, such as media, communication and aspects of everyday life like food or clothing
Identifier: 1551300273
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Musical meaning in Beethoven
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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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Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories
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Notes: series edited by Harald Clahsen and William Rutherford
Annotation: This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge.
Identifier: 9027224668
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Renaissance thought and the arts
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Other title information: collected essays
Notes: expanded edition
Annotation: Essays that deal with Renaissance humanism and philosophy, and also with Renaissance theories of art. This title focuses on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance.
Identifier: 0691020108
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A Semiotic Approach to Product Forms
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 625-638
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Bacterial (Prokaryotic) Communication
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 639-662
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Meaning, Subject, and Reality as Semiotic Foci of Political Research
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 399-446
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Photography and Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 663-688
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Psychoanalysis and Semiotics: A Retrospect
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 531-546
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Psychosemiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 547-586
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Semiotic Approaches to Figurative Narration
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 587-604
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Semiotics and Mass Communication Research: Key Intersections
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 471-530
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Signs Before Speech
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 689-758
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The Rediscovery of the Audience in Television Studies
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 447-470
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The Semiotics of Clothing: Linking Structural Analysis with Social Process
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 605-624
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Cine-semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 333-352
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Low on RAM: The Semiotics of Computing
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 369-386
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Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 353-368
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Semiotics and Marxism
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 387-414
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Semiotics and Medicine
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 215-269
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Semiotics of Rhetoric: The Consumption of Fantasy
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 301-332
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Toward a Semiotics of Old Age
In: The Semiotic Web 1988
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- 271-300
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Architectural, Design, and Space Semiotics in Argentina
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 393-420
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Contributions to the Semiotics of Marketing and Consumer Behavior 1985-88
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 535-584
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Recent Perspectives on Music Semiotics
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 421-464
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Research in Semiotics of Culture
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 601-636
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Semiotics and Archaeology
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 377-392
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Semiotics and Computers: The Advent of Semiotronics?
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 507-534
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Semiotics and Ethnomethodology
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 355-376
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Semiotics and Ideology
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 307-322
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Semiotics of Theater
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 323-354
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The Semiotics of Folkloric Performance
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 585-600
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Urban and Regional Semiotics: A Multidisciplinary Discussion
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 465-506
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Basic Concepts of Studies in Musical Signification: A Report on a New International Research Project in Semiotics of Music
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 405-584
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Semiotic Tools for the Study of Organizational Cultures
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 389-404
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Semiotics and Education—Strands in the Web
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 367-378
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Semiotics and Nursing
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 379-388
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Semiotics and Popular Culture
In: The Semiotic Web 1986
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- 355-366
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Recherches sur les systemes signifiants
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Other title information: Symposium de Varsovie 1968
Annotation: A compilation of papers covering different topics through a semiotic approach, including literature, linguistics, psychology and zoosemiotics
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