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Tropes and play: a new account on embodied figures of thought Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jan Söffner
This paper aims at expanding theories of metaphorical reasoning to other tropes. Asking why figurative language tends to fall into a limited number of patterns, it first examines approaches that offer an answer – ranging from antique rhetoric theory, Hans Blumenberg, Harald Weinrich, Donald Davidson, and Roman Jakobson to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. By then turning to Giambattista Vico, it puts
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Peirce’s iconicity and his image-diagram-metaphor triad revisited: complements to Stjernfelt’s Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Winfried Nöth
This review article of Frederik Stjernfelt’s Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism (2022) argues that Peirce’s theory of iconicity with its subdivision into the image-diagram-metaphor triad must not be reduced to diagrammatic iconicity. The foundation of the triadic subdivision of the icon is not in Peirce’s diagrammatic logic but in Peirce’s cenopythagorean categories. A focus is on misinterpretations of
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Eco, Riffaterre, and a poem by Baudelaire Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 John A. F. Hopkins
In Eco’s work between around 1960 and 1992, “openness” in a modern literary text can mean (a) “permitting more than one interpretation,” and (b) “requiring a good deal of decoding work from the reader,” which is close to my own position. These two aspects of openness are demonstrated using Baudelaire’s Les Chats, in regard to which Eco denies that the text may be cristallin in Lévi-Strauss’s sense
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Imagic iconicity as thematic representation in selected Nigerian children’s poetry Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Amaka Grace Nwuche, Chinyere Loretta Ngonebu, Ogechi Chiamaka Unachukwu
Sounds play crucial roles in a poem’s meaning (re)construction. Grasping the content of a literary work such as poetry often requires a profound interpretation of the underlying linguistic cum phonetic codes of its discourse. Extant studies on Nigerian children’s poetry have paid little attention to this aspect of meaning conception, thereby concentrating mainly on the surface lexical constructs. Hence
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A planar graph as a topological model of a traditional fairy tale Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Nazarii Nazarov
The primary objective of this study was to propose a functional discrete mathematical model for analyzing folklore fairy tales. Within this model, characters are denoted as vertices, and explicit instances of communication – both verbal and non-verbal – within the text are depicted as edges. Upon examining a corpus of Eastern Slavic fairy tales in comparison to Chukchi fairy tales, unforeseen outcomes
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Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar: a predictive semiotic theory of mind and language Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Sergio Torres-Martínez
This paper introduces a novel perspective on Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG) by examining the intricate interplay between mind and language through the lens of both Active Inference and Peircean semiotics. AgCCxG emphasizes the impact of intention and purpose on linguistic choices as a cognitive imperative to balance the symbolic Self (Intelligent Agent) with the dynamics of the environment
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Civilized Global North versus rebellious Global South: a socio-semiotic analysis of media visual discourse Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Rahat Bashir, Musarat Yasmin
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the ideological, social, economic, and political aspects of life on planet Earth. This study examines the visuals associated with COVID-19 published in Pakistani English newspapers. Visual data were collected through purposive sampling, analyzed using social semiotic theory, and discussed through a post-colonial lens. The visual data were grouped as Global South
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The grotesque as a literary issue Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Gulmariya Ospanova, Altynai Askarova, Balzhan Agabekova, Assel Zhutayeva, Saule Askarova
Grotesque imagery is widely used by all genres and movements of art and literature without exception, but its historical development and theoretical aspects have not been sufficiently studied. This study seeks to define and diagnose the main aspects of the development of the grotesque as a literary problem. The leading methods of researching this problem are methods of analysis, deduction, induction
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Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Todd Oakley, Jordan Zlatev
Few other social technologies and institutions are more consequential to human societies than money. Yet money remains a deeply perplexing phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a pan-human system of valuation, but on the other, it is conventional and variable in its uses. While it is controversial if money instantiates a fully-fledged sign system, it is rife with semiotic capacities. To present an illuminating
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Intralingual translation in didactic practice: five case studies Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Aage Hill-Madsen
This article is a qualitative study charting the dimensional range of a particular type of translative phenomenon, namely, intralingual translation within educational practice. Theoretically, the article is based on a broadened concept of translation that encompasses any kind of sign translation, including the transcending of a language-internal comprehension barrier, such as the one between scientific
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Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from The Social Dilemma Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Wei Jhen Liang, Fei Victor Lim
While participation in social media has become everyday practice among young people, there have been few studies examining how youth as social media users are represented in the media discourse. Focusing on the promotional materials of an award-winning and widely-viewed documentary film, The Social Dilemma, this paper examines the media depictions of youth that attract the public’s attention. Through
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Surinterprétation idiomatique en sémiotique de la traduction : De la part de la princesse morte de Kenizé Mourad et ses traductions turques Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Sündüz Öztürk Kasar, Didem Tuna
Resumé Dans cette étude, nous nous proposons d’analyser de la perspective sémiotique de la traduction l’œuvre intitulée De la part de la princesse morte de Kenizé Mourad, écrivaine francophone, qui a une identité multiculturelle étant donné qu’elle est princesse ottomane du côté de sa mère et princesse indienne du côté de son père. Née à Paris dans des conditions de la Deuxième guerre mondiale, et
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On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Michael Betancourt
The recognition of a pattern of abstract marks as language is simultaneously obvious and undertheorized. Contemporary “asemic poetry” splits the recognition of language from its lexicality, providing an opportunity to consider this recognition directly. It reveals the necessary intervention of an “intentional function” that justifies considering markings as if they were encoded, i.e., as language.
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Campus repertoires: interrogating semiotic assemblages, economy, and creativity Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Gabriel Simungala, Deborah Ndalama-Mtawali
Framed within the broader theoretical context of social semiotics, we attempt to show how university students communicate using a variety of unique means, in particular social contexts. We privilege Pennycook and Otsuji’s semiotic assemblages, Jimaima and Simungala’s semiotic creativity, and the notion of semiotic economy as critical ingredients that conspire to give rise to the unique and complex
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The concepts “power” and “death” as key units in the conceptual framework of the novel The Nomads: The Charmed Sword by Yessenberlin Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Aigerim Dairbekova, Leila Mekebayeva
The relevance of this study is the increased interest of modern researchers in the field of humanities in the problems of interaction between language, culture, and thinking, as well as the need to study in this aspect the interdisciplinary notion of the concept from the position of literature studies. The purpose of the study is to investigate the concepts of “power” and “death” as key units in the
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Semiotic approach of strategic narrative: the news discourse of Russia’s coronavirus aid to Italy Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Andreas Ventsel
Crucial components of strategic communication include the audience, which plays a decisive role in how any conflict plays out. Strategic narratives are seen as means by which political actors attempt to construct a shared meaning of international politics to shape the behaviour of domestic and international actors. The article analyzes the news discourse of the Russian media sources RT, Pervyj Kanal
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Cross-modal iconicity in songs about weeping Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Anna Bonifazi
The article explores cross-modal iconic relations in nine diverse Western-music songs ranging from 1600 to 2015, all of them thematizing dysphoric weeping. Initial input comes from five recurrent features observed in ancient Greek texts associated with performative events, including the prominence of sound, interjections and strong self-referentiality, repetitions and refrains, the motif of endlessness
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A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Federico Bellentani
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance and meanings of faces within monuments and memorials. The presence of faces in monuments and memorials transcends cultures and spans throughout history. Faces serve as vital components of public statues, conveying the emotions of depicted characters and establishing communicative connections with observers. Moreover, they are employed
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Above the heteronormative narrative: performance and emergence of Disney’s villains Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Francesco Piluso
The article proposes a re-examination of the role and position of the so-called “Disney villains” within the narrative framework of animated films and popular culture as a whole. In the first part, the historical evolution in the representation of these villains will be explored according to the practice of “queer coding,” which involves attributing stereotypically queer traits to them without explicitly
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Some pragmatic consequences to the order of determination of the object’s trichotomies in Peirce’s late semiotics Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Priscila Borges, Juliana Rocha Franco
The issue of the ordering of the ten trichotomies is one among the many questions still open regarding Peirce’s extended theory of signs. A proper decision regarding the order of the ten trichotomies demands a discussion of the entire semiotic process. The aim of this paper is to discuss the order of the trichotomies related to the mode of being of the immediate and dynamical objects. Therefore, it
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Heterotopias and the facesphere: “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia” Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Silvia Barbotto
This exploration of the works of various authors and artists will bring us to a philosophical contemplation of the portrait as a heterotopic space. On one hand, a portrait represents the faces of the self and others, embodying both individuality and collectivity. On the other hand, the space within the conventional frame of a portrait transforms from a mere representation of documented reality to a
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Lotman’s semiotics of culture in the age of AI: analyzing the cultural dynamics of AI-generated video art in the semiosphere Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Daria Arkhipova, Auli Viidalepp
The use of AI-generated videos centered on the face raises various concerns among professionals and audiences due to the difficulty of providing coherent descriptive tools of their cultural significance. At the same time, the focus of artists and their audiences shifts from the art as a text to the collaboration process between artificial intelligence (AI) and the involved social actors. This raises
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Oblique semiotics: the semiotics of the mirror and specular reflections in Lotman and Eco Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Remo Gramigna
Novelty, the creation of new information, has been the hallmark of Juri M. Lotman’s thought. This issue resurfaces in the discussion of his now famous article “On the semiosphere,” in which Lotman, drawing on Vernadsky, identifies the principles of symmetry, asymmetry, and enantiomorphism as pivotal aspects of the semiotic mechanism of the semiosphere. Specular phenomena and mirror reflections have
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Justice must be seen to be done: a multimodal attitude analysis of attorneys’ closing arguments Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Chuanyou Yuan, Huishu Cao
Multimodal discourse analysis offers a novel lens for the study of legal discourse. Within the closing arguments of a trial, prosecution and defense attorneys utilize various multimodal resources to present evidence, articulate opinions, and adopt stances to achieve their communicative goals. This research focuses on the closing arguments in the criminal trial concerning the death of George Floyd to
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Activist masks in the Latin American social protest Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Baal Delupi
Masks, balaclavas, eye masks, and various accessories have been consistently used to hide the face, from Greek times through the grotesque of the Middle Ages to the Latin American theatre festivals of the 1980s. In the twenty-first century, technological advances such as facial recognition, which are being used for the biopolitical control of the face, caused activists to start developing different
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The structural human and semiotic animal: between pride and humiliation Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Martin Švantner
The main theme of the article, which by genre falls into the area of semiotically influenced philosophy, is a reflection on the relationship between the human and the non-human, using two partial but parallel discourses. The first discourse is the perspective of general semiotics, which is defined in the article on the basis of two distinct forms of rationality that, in different guises, still intervene
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Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Elnara Dulayeva, Fatima Mamedova, Agnur Khalel
The peculiarities of speech etiquette in each language are determined by historical, cultural, social, cognitive, and religious factors. The study of greeting and farewell speech formulas in Turkish and Arabic is relevant for identifying key linguacultural meanings and concepts using conceptual modeling. The purpose is to analyze the linguistic and cultural conditioning of etiquette formulas in these
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The inhumanity of people living in Slovak Roma settlements: on the creation of the focal images Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Tomáš Kobes
This text deals with convergence and divergence in relation to the formation of images of inhumanity in Slovak Roma settlements. Slovak media, social networks, and television reports often contain negative images emphasizing the Roma’s backwardness, irrationality, superstition, and cruelty, and aiming to highlight their inhumanity. This approach has become prevalent even among official state authorities
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Tomás Saraceno: semiotic regimes of posthuman temporalities Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Martin Charvát
Since 2007, Tomás Saraceno has been developing a project that aims to break out of the anthropocentric understanding of communication and coexistence with other animal organisms. In this article, I point out the importance of using modern visualization technologies to analyze and investigate the structure of communication frameworks and their modalities in the animal world, specifically using the example
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The impatient gaze: on the phenomenon of scrolling in the age of boredom Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jakub Marek
In four major parts, this study investigates the phenomenon of scrolling. Its first task is to argue in favor of a specific quality of the experience of scrolling, distinguishing it from other forms of distraction, notably from the flow experience. Scrolling takes the shape of aimless drifting. Secondly, it investigates the phenomenon of scrolling against its relevant historical, economic, social,
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To be is not to inhabit: Yuri M. Lotman’s Ulysses and his transhumanist context Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Ondřej Váša
This essay contextualizes the Dantean figure of Ulysses, as conceived by Yuri M. Lotman, and draws this key figure of modernity into a network of mutually interconnected discourses: primarily transhumanist visions of the human future in space, which nevertheless arise from the specifically modern epistemic dimension of “restlessness,” and intertwine with post-war astronautics, cyborg visions of human
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Transhumanism: the friendly face of the overhuman and the comic book Superman Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jakub Chavalka
The core of the study is a critical comparison of Nietzsche’s notion of Übermensch, and its transhumanist rewriting into different variants of the posthuman. The first part contextualizes transhumanist thought, primarily in relation to certain evolutionary ideas that, in their totality, exhibit a fundamental anthropological deficit: they speak of the evolutionary overcoming of human, but the limit
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Structural semiology, Peirce, and biolinguistics Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Ľudmila Lacková
Peirce’s sign model is introduced as incompatible with structural semiology in the majority of semiotics textbooks. In this paper, I would like to argue against this general polarization of the semiotic discipline. I focus on compatibilities between Lucien Tesnière’s syntactic theory (verbal valency) and Peirce’s logic of relatives. My main argument is that structural linguistics is not necessarily
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Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Claudio Paolucci, Paolo Martinelli, Martina Bacaro
In this paper, we try to build a semiotics of stereotypes through the key idea of enunciation. We investigate stereotypes of Persons with Disabilities in the context of social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) by adopting a semiotic perspective. The mainstream idea about stereotypes is that they are necessarily something negative, that must be avoided to maximize inclusivity and fairness.
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The emergence of post-narrativity in the era of artificial intelligence: a non-anthropocentric perspective on the new ecology of narrative agency Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Jin Young Lee, Sung Do Kim
In the age of artificial intelligence, writing machines or robot authors have already begun to produce narrative texts in a variety of genres, including short stories and poetry, as well as journalistic articles. This article is based on the prospect that the narrative ecosystem is in a transitional period of decisive disconnection as it enters the era of artificial intelligence. The primary force
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Notes on two contemporary myths: free internet and user activity on digital social networking sites Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Marcelo Santos
The proposal presented here opens up the opportunity to discuss what attentive Barthesian eyes can tell us about this early twenty-first century. We discuss the following research question: If actors pay nothing to be on digital social networking sites, and if they are supposed to shape the digital environment, how do companies profit if such an assumed logic remains for them a subordinate place? The
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Analyzing polysemiosis: language, gesture, and depiction in two cultural practices with sand drawing Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Jordan Zlatev, Simon Devylder, Rebecca Defina, Kalina Moskaluk, Linea Brink Andersen
Human communication is by default polysemiotic: it involves the spontaneous combination of two or more semiotic systems, the most important ones being language, gesture, and depiction. We formulate an original cognitive-semiotic framework for the analysis of polysemiosis, contrasting this with more familiar systems based on the ambiguous term “multimodality.” To be fully explicit, we developed a coding
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Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Prisca Augustyn
This paper explains Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Gestaltkreis model as a reinterpretation of Jakob von Uexküll’s Funktionskreis. Also derived from the Funktionskreis is Thure von Uexküll’s Situationskreis model. Both Weizsäcker’s Gestaltkreis and Thure von Uexküll’s Situationskreis have evolved in the context of integrated medicine in Germany throughout the twentieth century. Focusing on the role of language
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Assessing the subtitling of emotive reactions: a social semiotic approach Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Muhammad A. A. Taghian, Ahmad M. Ali
This article attempts to evaluate emotive meanings across languages and cultures expressed and elicited semiotically from viewers. It investigates the challenges of subtitling emotive feelings in the American film Homeless to Harvard (2003) into Arabic. It adopts Paul Thibault’s (2000. The multimodal transcription of a television advertisement: Theory and practice. In Anthony Baldry (ed.), Multimodality
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Deployment of gestures in the semiotic construction of scientific knowledge: a systemic functional approach on pedagogic semiosis Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Zekai Ayık
A variety of semiotic resources makes the construction of scientific knowledge possible and meaning-making resources are conveyed by certain semiotic modes. Next, numerous studies have demonstrated the pedagogical importance of gestures in the demonstration of scientific knowledge in the classroom. Drawing on social semiotic systemic functional theory and legitimation code theory, this study explores
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A Peircean framework for analyzing subjectivity in film: a nine-field ocularization matrix Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Marc Bekaert, Maarten Coëgnarts
The goal of this article is to offer a new model for the study of ocularization in film grounded in the semiotic pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. We first present a literature overview addressing the state of research regarding the theorization of ocularization in film studies. Second, we discuss Peirce’s three universal categories (Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness) on which our model will
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Complexity of grammatical metaphor: an entropy-based approach Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jiangping Zhou
Grammatical metaphor in M. A. K. Halliday’s sense has long been extensively investigated by researchers in terms of theoretical and empirical studies. Regarding the empirical studies, they have predominantly employed observed or normalized frequencies of grammatical metaphor to uncover its distribution in different text types. Few studies, however, were conducted to quantitatively examine the complexity
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A semiotic model of South Korea’s cultural industry ecosystem: the K-pop industry Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Hyeong-Yeon Jeon, Jang-Geun Oh, Chi-Hyun Wang, Sangwon Kim
We explored the need for an ecosystem approach based on relational systems when conducting research on South Korea’s cultural industry. We used Mollard’s (2009. L’ingeniere culturelle. Paris: PUF) idea of the participants in the French cultural system as a key reference and extended it to the notion of the platform, which is the core concept of South Korea’s cultural industry ecosystem (CIE). We also
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The development of possible worlds in an online video game Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Yunus Luckinger
With the development of technology, video games have become more and more realistic and indistinguishable from the real world. In this regard, this article takes a semiotic approach to create a better understanding of how possible worlds are created in video games, placing them on a continuum, which shows that the development of possible worlds is based on the reality we face in the real world. A video
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Sémiotique des textscapes : quelle contribution du textscape linguistique à la mise en scène des langues dans un corpus de sites web ? Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Marie-Hélène Hermand
Résumé Cet article propose une réflexion théorique et méthodologique permettant de décrire et d’interpréter les textscapes à des fins d’analyse communicationnelle. L’objectif consiste à tester le concept sémiotique de textscape linguistique pour analyser la mise en scène des langues dans la communication des organisations sur le web. Le cadre théorique fait appel aux études du paysage linguistique
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Semiotic ladder: the schema of producing meanings in narrative Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Mohammad Ali Mahmoodi, Fatemeh Savab
A model called the “semiotic ladder,” which consists of “consecutive semiotic squares,” is proposed in this paper, through which the meanings of the deep structure of a narrative can be depicted as fluid and dynamic. It shows the stages of producing meanings in the narrative, from beginning to end. To see this, several narratives in the epic and mythological genres are analyzed in order to discover
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“Real” and imaginary worlds in children’s fiction: The Velveteen Rabbit Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Francisco O. D. Veloso
Literature for children is often designed to stimulate imagination through variants of the “real” world that we inhabit, expanding their potential for construing different possible worlds – variants that include imaginary characters like animals with human traits or toys that are somehow animated and conscious. Here we will examine one version of Margery William’s classic nursery tale The Velveteen
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On Kant doing philosophy and the Peircean alternative Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Dan Nesher
In my work on Kant’s Transcendental epistemology, I criticize his three Critiques and show that none of them can solve the problems that Kant endeavored to solve and he even, in a way, admitted it. In the first Critique, Kant attempts to solve the difficulties of the Cartesian Idealism and Humean Empirism, in combining them mechanically in his own Transcendental formalism and Sensual matter without
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The semiotics of motion encoding in Early English: a cognitive semiotic analysis of phrasal verbs in Old and Middle English Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Sergio Torres-Martínez
This paper offers a renewed construction grammar analysis of linguistic constructions in a diachronic perspective. The present theory, termed Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG), is informed by active inference (AIF), a process theory for the comprehension of intelligent agency. AgCCxG defends the idea that language bear traces of non-linguistic, bodily-acquired information that reflects
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Latmos: a semiotic view on the subject’s role in the sustainability of natural and cultural values Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Murat Kalelioğlu
Along with the developments in social, scientific, and technological fields, today’s conditions are constantly changing and becoming much more complex. Humans must keep pace with the rapidly changing world, meet requirements, and solve various problems encountered with minimal damage. One of the most crucial obligations is to preserve the delicate balance between nature and culture to make it sustainable
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Gastrofonia: a new cultural horizon of music and food Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Raffaella Scelzi, Nicola Difino
The meaning of matter is determined by our interpretations. Even food has its own frequencies, which can be aligned with the specific notes of a musical scale. When presented with a dish we might ask not only “how does it taste?” but also “how does it sound?.” Gastrofonia is defined not as the musical accompaniment to a cooking demonstration, but the actual sound of it: music is made by food. Built
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Quand l’énonciation publicitaire construit de la connivence avec de l’humour Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Annabelle Seoane, Montserrat López Díaz
Résumé Nous posons dans cet article que l’humour dans le discours publicitaire est un mécanisme privilégié de la communication multicanale et plurisémiotique pour transformer le discours marchand en pratique communicationnelle agissante. Dans son rapport à une normativité donnée comme potentiellement divergente, il est mobilisé dans le double objectif de construire un ethos décalé, identifiable et
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A bibliometric and visual analysis of social semiotics: development, hotspots, and trend directions Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Han Xiao, Lei Li
Social semiotics is now widely regarded as one of the leading research areas. This study is the first attempt to present a holistic overview of social semiotics based on the data in the Web of Science core collection database from 2001 to 2020. The study investigates, among other issues, social semiotics’ publishing tendency, the most productive authors, countries, institutions, and hotspots. The results
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Analysis of the metaphorical meanings of symbols in Milan Kundera’s novels Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Qian Zhao
Milan Kundera is one of the most influential writers in contemporary world literature. In his novels, there are many symbolic metaphors related to numbers, dreams, and animals. Combing through the plots of Kundera’s novels, we can discover that among all the numbers, seven and twenty are used most frequently. These two numbers have rich metaphorical meanings. Besides, there are many other digital metaphors
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From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics” Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 James McElvenny, Clemens Knobloch
Among the many Central European scholars and intellectuals driven into exile across the Atlantic in the 1930s was the prominent Vienna psychologist Karl Bühler (1879–1963). Bühler had great difficulty establishing himself in his new home of the United States, despite his attempts to adapt his ideas to the American scene. In this paper, we look at one such attempt at adaptation, the unpublished manuscript
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The existential signs through the works of Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Ayse Ece Onur, Erdal Aygenc
This article is about the signs during the creative stage of one’s self-development. With the acceptance of the creative act as an existential phenomenon, the research considers the creative process as a genuine expression that has been actualized during one’s search for his/her existence. An artist reflects his/her existential being through his/her work to construct an original self, by facing the
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From action to performative gesture: the Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Silva H. Ladewig, Lena Hotze
This paper introduces a manual movement performed recurrently by German children in the age range of four to six. Based on the movement gestalt and its meaning, we termed it the Slapping movement. All forms identified in the data were performed with a communicative function, yet they showed different degrees of “gesturality.” To be more precise, we observed versions that clearly count as actions or
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The primordiality of representation Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Steven Bonta
The ontological implications of the Peircean Categories, as set forth most clearly in Peirce’s summative architectonic statement, “New Elements,” and referenced elsewhere in Peirce’s body of writings, are examined with reference to the existent or physical universe. The Peircean universal ontological Categories Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness are shown to give rise to a cosmos that is triadic
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“Little music” or “rough music”?: Ishion Hutchinson, modernist poet Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 John Hopkins
In this essay I will suggest that part of what makes the young Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson so remarkable is the fact that much of his work – in this age of “anything goes” post-postmodernism – is clearly modernist poetry, in both structure and effect. This structure will be that explained in my expanded version of Michael Riffaterre’s semiotic theory of poetry, which deals with modernist work.
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An important chapter in the history of semiotics: inference from signs in Philodemus’ De signis Semiotica (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Giovanni Manetti
Philodemus’ De signis is one of the classical texts of greatest semiotic interest. It reports the debate which arose between the Epicureans and an opposing school, usually identified as the Stoics, concerning semiotic inference. The Epicureans proposed to construct semiotic inferences based on generalizations resting on similarity, ultimately configuring their method as a form of induction. Their opponents