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The role of the normative sciences in the evolution of Peirce’s pragmatism Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 James Jakób Liszka
I argue that the introduction of the normative sciences in Peirce’s 1903 Harvard Lectures was prompted by ethical concerns related to his pragmatic maxim and his pragmatism, generally. In the new formulation of the maxim, Peirce shows the relation between theory and practice more clearly. At the same time, since theoretical beliefs can translate to practical ones, this shows how the practical application
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Football statues and semiotics Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Bent Sørensen
Every football statue transcends mere physical representation; it stands as a public monument constructed to commemorate and honor specific subjects. The football statue involves an intricate interplay of communication factors and functions, potentially transforming into a message imbued with encyclopedic signs to serve its communicative purposes. Importantly, the football statue, as a communication
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Peirce’s philosophy of language Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Zhifang Zhu
Peirce’s philosophy of language is woven around his pragmatic maxim. From early on in his scholarship to late, Peirce expanded his pragmatism into a fabric of semiotics. In this paper, Peirce’s pragmatism is taken to be an integral part of his semiotic system, and his method of making ideas clear is accounted for in terms of his theory of signs. For Peirce, a sign stands for or represents something
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Pragmatism, logic, and manuscript R318 Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Tony Jappy
Whereas it is generally held that Peirce’s logic contributed largely to a proof of his pragmatism, particularly in the 1907 manuscript R318, the paper adopts an alternative approach and posits that after 1903, Peirce’s conception of the sign and the way it functions evolved significantly in the period leading to and including the various versions of this never-to-be-published article which set out
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The relation of Peirce’s abduction to inference to the best explanation Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Yi Jiang
Peirce’s pragmatic maxim is closely related to his conception of abduction. The acquisition of the actual effect required by the method of scientific reasoning expressed by Peirce’s maxim must be accomplished by resorting to abductive logic. Abductive logic starts from a surprising fact, derives a hypothetical explanation about that fact, and finally arrives at the possibility that the hypothesis is
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Open community in Peirce’s pragmatism Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Jining Chen, Deping Lu
Peirce’s concept of “community” is a philosophical notion closely intertwined with society. The production of knowledge within a community entails the characteristics of the “knowledge production chain” revealed by Peirce’s pragmatic maxim. Knowledge can only effectively grow within an open community that the dynamism of maxim has implied. The openness of the community essentially consists of two dimensions:
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Political discourse and semiotics Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Betül Çanakpınar, Murat Kalelioğlu, Veli Doğan Günay
In recent years, semiotics has put “life” at the center of the subject of study. There is the desire to be successful in the lifestyle and the desire to convey the right knowledge to the recipient or the correct use of practices in life. A semiotic theory developed by Jacques Fontanille recently showed that strategy can also be used in semiotic analysis. So, the way of life that Fontanille talks about
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Abai’s poetry in Eco’s semiotic light Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Roza Khassenova, Manifa Sarkulova
The article explores the poetry of Abai Qunanbaiuly, a renowned philosopher and a founder of modern Kazakh literature, through the semiotic perspective of Umberto Eco. The study is a part of a broader research project in cultural studies titled “Semiotic Interpretation of Culture by Umberto Eco.” Specifically, the poem under analysis is “Allanyn özi de ras, sözi de ras” (“Allah is truth, His word is
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Biosemiotics’ greatest potential contribution to biology Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Jeremy Sherman
Encouraging biologists to factor semiotics into their research is likely to fall on deaf ears because they already factor it in through an accepted life science methodological standard here called Parallel Engineering (APE). Biosemiotics’ most significant contribution to biology – a contribution that biologists would come to depend upon – would be a more rigorous alternative methodology to APE through
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Sparks from the Clouds: a modern Buddhist poem Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 John A. F. Hopkins
Although published only two years after Eliot’s famous modernist poem “The Waste Land” (1922), Miyazawa Kenji’s 52-line “Haru to Shura” (1924) is already very nearly as modern. The two poems, examined here using my expanded version of Riffaterre’s semiotic theory, have analogous propositional structure. One proposition concerns the faithless majority of mankind; the other involves a heavenly personage
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A semiotic grammar of Vedic Sanskrit Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Steven Bonta
In this study, we apply the methodology of semiotic or interpretive grammar, based on the Peircean ontological Categories and developed in previous work with respect to Mandarin Chinese, to Vedic Sanskrit, a language whose grammar we have previously shown to be constrained by Peircean Thirdness or [+3]. We show the Peircean Category of Thirdness, with all of the paradigmatic and syntagmatic configurations
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Multi-source symbiosis of textual meaning Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Jun Zeng
In both Chinese and Western literary theory, there are several fundamental perspectives on the exploration of “the source of textual meaning,” which can be categorized into ontological, entitative, and generative types. Future research must integrate the “source” perspective with the “trigger” perspective, while overcoming the postmodern cultural pluralist limitations of “multiple symbiosis.” This
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Religious modeling of a natural disaster: a cultural semiotic study Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Muzayin Nazaruddin
This study examines the relationship between disaster and religion by exploring three main questions: how religion shapes the interpretation of disasters and the subsequent recovery processes; how disasters transform religious practices; and how religious interpretations may coexist with scientific explanations of the same disaster. By focusing on the Aceh society’s experience after the 2004 tsunami
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Transmuting the painterly sign Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Ersu Ding
According to renowned linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson, translation can be divided into three general categories: intralingual translation, interlingual translation, and intersemiotic translation/transmutation. Unlike the first two categories, intersemiotic transmutation lacks the usual isomorphism that exist between a source and its target, but that should not deter us from discovering an underlying
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On the syntax and semantics of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Chengdong Wang, Yudi Yuan
This article investigates the syntax of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese, including the syntactic constraints on predicates that might appear in sluicing, the reclassification of wh-phrases, the syntactic status of shi ‘be’ and you ‘have,’ and the syntactic derivation of typical sluicing and pseudo-sluicing. This article argues that there are both pseudo-sluicing and typical sluicing in Chinese, with each
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Norm and trope in social indexicality Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Asif Agha
The concurrent lamination of distinct categorial principles in speech allows language users to interpret and create a vast range of social-interpersonal realities. Any conceivable dimension of social life – from the mental states of persons to the forms of belonging they exhibit within sociohistorical orders of caste, class, age-set, gender, commerce, or profession – can indexically be linked to features
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Toward the total semiotic fact Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Alastair Pennycook
This paper explores the quest for an account of the total linguistic or semiotic fact. Speech act theory, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and social semiotics have all attempted, in various ways and at various times, to find a way to describe as much as possible what is going on around any speech event. While this search for the total linguistic fact will always be a chimerical goal, this
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Semiotic interpretation of photos in Leslie Silko’s Storyteller Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Wei Song
Leslie Marmon Silko, a Native American female writer, includes many photos about family and land in her autobiography Storyteller. The relations of images and words in her book are analyzed from the perspective of semiotics, particularly from Roland Barthes’s image rhetoric. The linguistic message and the coded and non-coded iconic message of the photos help in understanding the Laguna Pueblo concept
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Understanding artworks from Danto’s philosophy of art: a Peircean semiotic approach Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Qiaojuan Luo
Arthur Danto’s philosophy of art contributes significantly to diverse perspectives that seek to understand the nature and significance of artistic creations, offering unique insights into the interpretation and meaning of artworks. This paper aims to examine Danto’s philosophy of art by employing the semiotic framework developed by Charles Sanders Peirce and applying it to the analysis of three famous
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Unveiling the past: the multidimensional theatrical space in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Chunmei Lyu, Yu Zhang
With acute historical awareness, African American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks uses abundant signs in the form of words, movements, sights, and sounds in her plays to create an imagined world, helping readers and audiences to revisit forgotten and neglected history and contemplate on how to read Africana history. In Venus, she wields rapid transformation of space, inserts a play-within-the-play, and
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Cultural translation in the context of Lotman’s cultural semiotics: a case study of the German translation of Six Records of a Floating Life Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Tianhai Fu, Xuan Zhao
Six Records of a Floating Life is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Shen Fu, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Its writing is ancient and elegant, and it is rich and profound in connotation. The German translation of Six Records of a Floating Life by German sinologist Rainer Schwarz presents the spirit of the original in detail and is of high cultural value and research significance.
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Linguistic modality acts in existential semiotics: the epistemological turn from “being-in-the-world” awareness to “lived-through-world” experience Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Zdzisław Wąsik
Against the background of deliberations about the conception of worldhood as developed in existential semiotics on the basis of linguistic modality acts, this paper proposes merging mundane and transcendentalist phenomenology with epistemology as a theory of knowledge, in general, that alludes to pragmatic sources of human knowledge about the world, in particular. From the epistemological perspective
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Lombroso’s criminal face across physiognomy and semeiotics Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Angelo Di Caterino
The paper examines the origins of physiognomy through analysis of the work of one of its founding fathers, Cesare Lombroso. The most interesting facet of Lombroso’s studies on the criminal face is how it can be considered as a true semeiotics. Although the Italian doctor’s supposed discoveries cannot be defined as scientific, his quantitative approach constitutes an important case study, since he tries
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Paolo Marzolo and Cesare Lombroso: a semiotic-medical inheritance between word, sounds, and face Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Alice Orrù
Within the interdisciplinary context of the nineteenth century, the paper scrutinizes the relation between Paolo Marzolo’s theory of signs and Cesare Lombroso’s anthropological-criminal approach. Best known for his unfinished work Monumenti storici (1847–1866), Marzolo (of whom Lombroso calls himself a disciple) investigates, in his last Saggio sui segni (1866), the origin and development of languages
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Concealment of the face and new physiognomies Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Baal Delupi
Facial recognition technology has enabled governments and private companies to have control of millions of faces in different countries around the world. This becomes dangerous since it threatens the privacy of citizens, which is why different activists demonstrate against this form of control and surveillance using different technological and aesthetic resources to prevent said recognition. This work
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The visage and the mask: semiotic considerations around representations of visages in Japanese Nō Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Ludovic Chatenet
This paper aims at confronting a semio-anthropology of the face, based on the principles of Lévi-Strauss and Greimas, with the representation of the visage in Japanese Nō theater. As a theory, semiotics permits an explanation of the signification of faces, reduced at first to a series of masks, and their representations in different cultures. Within this framework, we will show that representations
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Introduction to “The visage as text” Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Remo Gramigna, Massimo Leone
This brief text introduces the main themes and topics of this collection of articles on “The visage as text: physiognomy, semiotics, and face reading from antiquity to artificial intelligence,” emphasizing the historical continuity of interest in the face as a surface to be scrutinized, investigated, and studied in order to know the individual’s intimacy or future. It points out the intertwining of
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Embodying genre: from Galton’s generic faces to Peirce’s embodied ideas Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Julia Ponzio
In the late 1870s, Galton implements and describes the technique of “composite photography.” This technique consists in overlapping several images of faces on the same photographic plate to obtain what Galton calls a “generic face.” The idea of composite photography appears in some of the crucial junctures of Peirce’s semiotic theory. Peirce uses the composite photograph as the image of the percept
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Reading and writing in n-dimensional face space Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Silvia Barbotto Forzano
This manuscript begins with a brief introduction that establishes the theoretical background, followed by a tripartite unfolding that explains the following contents: 1) the path from point zero as a plurimorphic space of semiotic tranquility; 2) the historical trajectory of physiognomy and pathognomy suggestions; and 3) new biometric readings and the digital face. We postulate the neutral state of
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Face in the mirror, what do you see? Catoptric autoexperimentation and the physiognomic gaze Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Devon Schiller
To critically explicate the visual epistemology for catoptric autoexperimentation in the contemporary science of facial behavior, by way of its historical progenitors, I draw upon the pragmatic semiotics of the catoptric phenomenon. This problematization of catoptrics is fundamentally about two different but related concepts: the semiotic threshold and the iconicity debate. Based on primary sources
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Physiognomic theories between equation and inference Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Michele Cerutti
Physiognomy finds itself in a strange position. On the one hand, it is considered false and even dangerous by common sense as a pseudo-scientific theory; on the other hand, it is implicitly practiced by everyone every day (Brandt 1980. Face reading. The persistence of physiognomy. Psychology Today 14(7). 90–96). This situation calls for an explanation. After a brief discussion of the problems of classical
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Constructing East Asians in a European comic book series Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Arezoo Adibeik
This study focuses on the British English version of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin, a series of adventure comics created from 1929 to 1976. The series became increasingly popular throughout the mid-twentieth century and remains so even to the present day. However, it is still a subject of intrigue and controversy for many scholars due to the alleged racist/ethnic stereotypes in this series in terms
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Pre-objective reality and the end of the world Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Baranna Baker
In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Haruki Murakami plays with the quantum idea of the Many Worlds theory, creating two universes that exist in a state of parallelism – one consisting of the main character’s objective/subjective reality, the other being a pre-objective reality that resides within the character’s inaccessible subconscious mind. These universes are linked within the purely
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Transmedia strategies in school literary education: deconstructing kitsch and the semiotics of readerly creativity Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Alexander Arkhangelsky, Anna Novikova
We consider the substitution of living classical texts with their simulacra, kitschy interpretations, to be one of the most important issues in literary education in schools. Traditional teaching methods and textbooks reproduce a set of pedagogical clichés. This leads to a loss of the skill of reading. As a result, the student gains a set of simple narratives about canonical texts, not the knowledge
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Two different semiotic frameworks for viewing Japan Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 John A. F. Hopkins
In this paper, I would like to examine, within a semiotic framework, two contrasting views of the contemporary culture of Japan – which is still relatively little-known outside its own shores. First, there is the outsider’s view, according to which Japan is firmly situated in the “Far East”. This is the usual interpretant of subject-sign Japan, which is taken to refer – as its object-sign – to all
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On Andrei Bely’s poetic philosophy and art of fiction Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Haiying Guan, Yuhua Li
As a unique literary theory, Andrei Bely’s symbolism is a religious world view, and his “symbols” are deeply rooted in the symbolist’s cognition of world structure. This distinct world view exerts a special effect on Bely’s exploration of the poetic mechanism of symbolism. In the practice of completing the creation of symbolic image, the construction of symbolic text, and the achievement of artistic
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Revisiting the nature and function of transliteration through a semiotic lens, exemplified by the English translations of Shan Hai Jing Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Xinyu Huang
As a common translation practice, transliteration has been a constant topic in translation studies. In contrast to related fruitful practice, there is a lack of interest in it at the theoretical level. Most studies take transliteration as a ruled-based sound transferring process, neglecting its complexity and multi-functions. This paper affords a Peircean semiotic analysis of the inner workings of
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A semiotic approach to grammatical gender in Mandarin Chinese Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Juan Carlos Moreno-Arrones Delgado
The present article addresses the typical linguistic forms of Mandarin Chinese with regard to the grammatical gender of the language, for which the whole text is articulated in different segments that explain the nature of “feminine” and “masculine” in Chinese and their historical implications, taking into account how distant it may be for speakers of Indo-European languages. The study then discusses
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Introducing Paul Cobley: a graphic guide Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 E. Israel Chávez Barreto, Donald Favareau
Within the discipline of semiotics, written text remains the primary mode of communication and analysis, despite the fact that, as all good semioticians know, signs occur in all modalities – which is why we think of artists and musicians, no less than novelists and poets, as applied semioticians par excellence. In 1997, Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz combined the semiotic tools of words and drawings to
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Narrative modeling and its implications for cultural practices Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Yunhee Lee
Paul Cobley stated that the semiotics of narrative should not be conflated with narratology. This statement becomes a starting point for an inquiry into the semiotics of narrative by looking at the concept of narrative signs and its future as a new theory of narrative. Narrative signs embedding semiotic processes convey the meaning of narrative in the areas of the prelinguistic, the linguistic, and
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Paul Cobley’s impact on biosemiotics: Thomas Sebeok’s next century Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Kalevi Kull
We briefly review the impact of Paul Cobley (born 1963) on biosemiotics and list his works on the topic. These have links to communication studies and integrationism. After Thomas Sebeok, John Deely, and several others, Cobley has been a leader of the general semiotics movement, according to which “semiotics’ project is most fully realized on a biosemiotic basis.”
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Biosemiotics for postdigital living: the implications of the implications Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Alin Olteanu, Cary Campbell
The postdigital condition is discussed from the perspective of Paul Cobley’s biosemiotic approach to culture. While semiotics is often concerned with cultural criticism, there has been no explicit biosemiotic approach to culture, until only recently with Cobley unfurling such a research program. The key to this is the biosemiotic notion of modeling, which accounts for co-evolutionary processes encompassing
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Semioethics and global communication Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio
In the sign of homaging Paul Cobley as part of this Festschrift for him, we will consider two of his edited volumes: the first The Routledge companion to semiotics, 2010, to which we contributed a text titled “Semioethics,” and the second (co-edited with Kristian Bankov), Semiotics and its masters, 2017, to which we contributed the text “Semioethics as a vocation of semiotics.” Particular reference
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Transcending the mid-most target: Paul Cobley and the cultural implications of biosemiotics Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Donald Favareau
Having been intimately aligned with the research agenda of biosemiotics since his colleague Thomas Sebeok first started using the term in 1992, Paul Cobley has consistently argued against the idea that the primary aim of biosemiotics is to make an intervention in the discourse and epistemology of the life sciences. Instead, he argues for the potential of a biosemiotically informed humanities for refashioning
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Living the duty of care: languaging in semiotic fields Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Stephen J. Cowley
New hope can draw on anti-humanist duty of care. Turning from debate about how one ought to act in discursively produced “realities,” Paul Cobley advocates a bioethics of living in semiotic fields. Thanks to observership, humans can make good use of both the known and how things appear as signs. For Cobley, the latter are “mind independent.” Once deemed real, semiosis can unite the lawful, the perceivable
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On the role of time, re-presentation, and self-conscious narrators in postmodern narrative Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Baranna Baker
In the past, I have published papers on the use of language within the realm of fictional narratives, how the structure of postmodern films and novels operates to affect the reader or viewer, and on the purely objective worlds constructed within the confines of literature. Most recently, I submitted a newly written paper to my friend Paul Cobley for his casual feedback. He got back promptly, saying
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A semiotic-discursive insight into short videos on memory and peace Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril
This paper explores how short web videos uploaded to the Truth Commission’s TikTok official profile are formulated. The Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) is a Colombian state entity created to clarify patterns and causes of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and recognize victims’ and society’s right to the truth. The Commission’s aim is to avoid repetition of violence through an ample and plural
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A strophe, a chorus, and a bridge walk into a bar… Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Dario Martinelli
Building up on Paul Cobley’s work on narrativity in film and literature, the present article aims at exploring how pop songs convey narrative elements via their own structure (or “format,” as it shall be called here), and their single components (intro, outro, bridge, refrain, etc.). Some of the most recurrent formats (particularly Strophe–Refrain and Chorus–Bridge) as well as some of the most unusual
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Umwelt, enchantment, and McDonaldization Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Andrew Mark Creighton
The enchantment and re-enchantment of formal rationalized systems has been an important study in sociology and the social sciences since its first discussion by Max Weber. However, it has received relatively little attention in animal studies, ecology, or environmental studies. This article attempts to fill this gap in the research by focusing on a multiscale perspective that considers the relationship
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Metonymy as a semiotic resource in fictional narrative Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Zongxin Feng
This article argues that metonymy provides “cognitive roundabouts” that semiotically create more meaning in fictional narrative against the popular views that metonymy provides “referential shorthand” and “communicative shortcuts.” In the light of Lakoff and Johnson’s observation on the relationship between symbolic metonymy and the comprehension of religious and cultural concepts, it explores the
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Narratorial frame–person duality: an analysis in general narratology Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Yiheng Zhao
There can be no narrative text without a narrator. Locating the source of narration is the starting point for an understanding of any narrative. There is no agreement among narratologists, nevertheless, on how the narrator could be located in a narrative text, in a so-called “third-person” fictional narrative, for instance, or in dramatic or cinematic narratives. The narrator should be ubiquitous in
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Narratives as cultural embedment Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Svend Erik Larsen
All cultures produce stories; all humans are storytellers. Hence, by implication, narratives must serve a fundamental cultural and existential function in human life. This article suggests the term “cultural embedment” to characterize this function. This article points out that, for narratives to play the role as a tool for cultural embedment, the double structure of narratives always switches back
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Laws of imitation and intermedia narrative – on imitation of word narrative by image narrative Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Diyong Long
Image narrative was long regarded as imitation of a story already told in word narrative rather than as direct imitation of real life. In the connection between imitation and medium, there are the phenomena of the medium’s own position and “Anders-streben.” The former emphasizes the medium following its own nature, and the latter means not only following its own nature but transcending itself to pursue
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Meaning-making in the European semiosphere Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Mieke Bal
The aim of the paper is to examine how to bring together the general, large area of “semiosphere” (Lotman), the detailed (“close”) analysis of cultural objects, and the point of the flexible methodology we call interdisciplinary. The semiosphere I address is the (uncertain) one we call “Europe”. The starting point is the semiotic status of the exclamation mark as I have used it to connect two preoccupations
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Confucius the untouchable: on the semiotics of historization Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Hongbing Yu
The present paper focuses on the semiotics of historization, that is, of “narration as history” and provides a meta-analysis of the semiotic modeling of Confucius as a case in point. I argue that the personage who has come to be known as Confucius has existed and can only exist, without exception, in multiple forms of sociocultural representation and interpretation that are natural results of distinct
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Acoustic space in narration from the perspective of production Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Xiuyan Fu, Fang Cai
A major mark of the progress of human society is its transition from the production of things in space to the production of space itself. Oral narrative covers a certain range of space with sound, and physical spaces such as theaters, cinemas, and concert halls accommodate various forms of narrative communication. Drama was the most popular form of mass communication in the pre-industrial age, and
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Translation semiotics and semiosic translation: clarification of disciplinary intension and concept Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Min Niu, Saengchan Hemchua
The paper aims to clarify the distinction of intension and concept between translation semiotics and semiosic translation to determine their disciplinary classification as well as the theoretical framework of translation semiotics. Translation semiotics is a relatively young interdisciplinary field connecting specifically semiotics and translation studies. In essence, it is a branch of semiotics where
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Patched quilt: the thematic pattern in Alice Walker’s womanist writings Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Xiaoying Wang, Yiran Shen
The womanist thinking initiated by Alice Walker not only represents her philosophical stance, but also imbues her literary writings with womanist characteristics. The pursuit of “the survival and wholeness of entire people” is the essence of Walker’s womanism, which permeates all of her writings so that her literary production demonstrates a unique artistic style with aesthetic implications. The patched
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The thing most important Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Scott P. Bradley
The Zhuangzi is a book that opens to a virtual wilderness of interpretive possibilities begging for exploration by scholars and laypersons alike. What follows here is an adventuresome foray by one of the latter. As such, it is essentially an exercise in creative writing. Since it is our interpretive conclusion that this was precisely what Zhuangzi himself was about, we believe he would smile broadly
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Power politics in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle Chinese Semiotic Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Xia Yuan, Yiran Wei
The issue of power politics is a crucial topic in Margaret Atwood’s works. According to Atwood, power is pervasive and diffused throughout all social relations. This essay examines how power becomes a part of human life, and how different levels of power interact in Atwood’s third novel Lady Oracle (1976). I investigate Atwood’s treatment of family upbringing in reinforcing gender roles. I show how