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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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Datendeutung und Selbstoptimierung in Praktiken des Self-Trackings
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 3-4: Selbstoptimierung
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- 221-238
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i3-4.868
Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research: Introduction
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 3-9
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.754
Into the Miracles
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Other title information: interpretačné sondy na predmet Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie
Annotation: University textbooks continuously accompany the reader with current examples of the dimensions of artistic communication and interpretation. While the previous volume, Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation, represented a modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, its subsequent continuation, Into the Miracles /interpretative probes on the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation/, expands on other reception and communication strategies. For students of the cultural studies study program, it is an exercise teaching material, complementary to the in-depth study of the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation in connection with some focal models of selected representatives of the so-called Nitra school. This time, the dominant focus of attention was completely narrowed to the international multi-genre site-specific festival in the countryside, Into the Miracles (July 1 - July 4, 2023), which was unique and special in several aspects. The concept of this event was a multi-day pilgrimage for miracles along an 80 km long walking route through the regions of south-central Slovakia. The festival thus provided an extraordinary experience of the journey/procession (of artistic communication as a journey). The event was ideal for cultural and aesthetic-scientific studies as an example of researching the laws of reception, artistic communication and interpretation, so to speak, in an outdoor environment with the dominant backdrop of the landscape and its picturesqueness, natural environment and overall rural color. At the same time, it offered an extremely diverse variability of the reception semiosis of artistic miracles by domestic and foreign creators, which were distributed across the country within the set hiking route. The multi-day pilgrimage for the sacred dimension of beauty also became an opportunity to perceive the narrative level of the entire festival, providing in its dramaturgy the uniqueness of scenes/phenomena of miracles and the need for its search or revitalization.
Identifier: 9788055820705
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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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Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie
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Other title information: vysokoškolské učebné texty
Annotation: University teaching texts provide students of the study program Culturology with a practically modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, which will guide them through several examples of reception and communication practice. The recapitulation sequence documents the story of a specific 2022/2023 semester cycle, partly of a monothematic nature. They are united by the concretization of one model of artistic communication and interpretation (chapter no. 1 Teaching texts/instruction sheets on reception aesthetics). The starting point is reception aesthetics honed and conceptually profiled at the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bratislava in Nitra, from which the texts of individual chapters are subsequently (referentially) created, embedded in the university pedagogical practice of the study of Culturology, and applied as a motif (chapter no. 2 Journeys of one semester cycle).
Identifier: 9788055820699
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A Lotmanian semiotic interpretation of cultural memory in ritual
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 157-173
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0085
From matter to form: the evolution of the genetic code as semio-poiesis
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 17-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0088
Gesture, a tool for synthetic reasoning
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 1-16
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0026
Intersemiotic translation from fairy tale to sculpture: An exploration of secondary narrativity
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 317-345
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.06
Italian Semiotics of Memory: Genealogies and Current Perspectives
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 49-82
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.818
Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: a distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 125-155
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0096
Listening to Beethoven’s Ninth as communicational production
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 213-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0074
Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 63-78
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0080
Quand l’éventail du désaccord laisse parler au-delà des paroles: Etude historico-sémiotique de la légende du Coup de l’Eventail
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 193-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0036
Revealing Alice in Wonderland through intersemiotic translation
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 346-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.07
Sense, reference, and contemporary “predicativism”
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 99-123
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0004
Speaking one’s mind: the sign as subject of interpretation in the manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce, between the theories of rhetoric and communication
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 79-98
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0086
The “empirical vocation” of the semiotics of Umberto Eco in his works on the media and mass communication
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 175-192
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0016
The Glocal View: Semiopolitical Definitions
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I
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- 15-47
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.817
(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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A. J. Greimas in the world: travels, translations, transmissions
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 187-228
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0040
An introduction: use and meaning – a special issue of <i>Semiotica</i> devoted to Jerzy Pelc
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0033
Are representations glorified receptors? On use and usage of mental representations
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 335-350
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0013
Fictional names, their use and pragmatic interpretations
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 165-185
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0005
Four puzzling paragraphs: Frege on ‘≡’ and ‘=’
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 75-95
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0012
Functional logical semiotics of natural language
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 5-22
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0006
Groundwork for a pragmatics for formalized languages
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 211-239
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0022
Indexicals and essential demonstrations
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 261-284
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0008
Investigations of an anti-semiote: Stanisław Lem’s semiotic ideas in light of semiotic functionalism of Jerzy Pelc
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 41-56
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0015
Łukasiewicz, determinism, and the four-valued system of logic
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 129-143
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0115
Metaphilosophical metamorphoses of analytic philosophy of language
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 57-74
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0017
Names of places
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 187-210
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0020
Omnipresent meaning-interdependence and ubiquitous analyticity
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 317-334
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0010
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
On the logical form and ontology of inferences in conversational implicatures
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 285-315
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0027
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
Sounds and gestures of linguistic reference: the endurance of reality in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 351-374
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0018
The manner of use, the uses and sub-uses of terms in social sciences: from the functional approach to natural language to applied semiotics and the philosophy of science
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 23-39
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0019
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 145-163
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0011
Token reflexivity and logic
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 241-259
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0009
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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El arsenal de Clío
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Other title information: el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990
Annotation: The book explores the question of how history should be written. It uses different frameworks, borrowing from philosophy, linguistics, politology and other fields from the humanities and social sciences
Identifier: 9788412007084
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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A report on the symposium “Juri Lotman and sociosemiotics” (Elva, Estonia, 19–20 May 2017)
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 178-180
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.09
On the analysis of power and politics from the perspective of Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 168-177
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.08
Cassirer on Communicology: The Symbolic Forms of Language, Art, Myth, and Religion in Cultural Semiotics
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 135-140
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La Corposphère
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- Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps
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Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.
Identifier: 9783639624175
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Mimicry and Meaning
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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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Réécriture et chanson
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- dans l'aire romane
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Annotation: De la mise en musique de la poésie à la reprise qui resémantise, de la littérature qui se réinvente en deux minutes trente aux grandes figures de la chanson qu’on traduit parce qu’on les admire, des covers caricaturales aux arrangements qui redéfinissent un chant connu, on parlera ici de toutes les formes d’interprétation en chanson : traduire, (re)chanter, renouveler la musique, donner un sens nouveau, donner le même sens avec d’autres mots ou d’autres sons.
Identifier: 9791032000960
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