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The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the
Gare, Arran
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

From paradigm to environment: The foreign rhythm and punctual catalysis of culture

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2016
Lotman and Barthes created two different critically oriented semiotic traditions. Both of them wen t through an evolution in their thought, moving from systematic organization to living transformations in cultural systems.
Pierluigi Basso Fossali
doaj   +1 more source

Ferraris, the legend [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a large-scale map of the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege was manufactured, covering more or less the current territory of Belgium.
Bracke, Wouter   +5 more
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La spiritualité comme motif de complexification identitaire

open access: yesSignata, 2023
As part of the multidisciplinary Augmented Artworks Analysis (AAA) project, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lille Palace of Fine Arts and the National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg, a discussion on the renewal of ...
Lisa Paillussière
doaj   +1 more source

Hilltops and Marches: A Cultural and Semiotic Analysis of Pepsi and Coca-Cola Advertising Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Coca-Cola Company released an advertisement in 1971 that had powerful themes of unity in a time of significant discord around the world. Almost 50 years later, the Pepsi Company released an advertisement that aimed to accomplish similar values of ...
Herrmann, Samuel
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Expanding Possibilities for the Use of Writing Genres in Early Elementary Science: Investigating First‐Graders’ Multimodal Sequential Explanations

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Semiótica e ideología: modelos, remociones y perspectivas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The relationship between semiotics and ideology can be approached through a particular study of the history of ideas. In this essay we try to draw a parallel between a semiotics which was engaged in the analysis of sociality and the reflection on ...
Bianchi, Cinzia
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Students’ Experiences of Teachers’ Ways of Unpacking Visual Representations in the Context of Intermolecular Forces

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is the third article in a series, emanating from a project that used social semiotics and phenomenography to explore the role visual representations play in the teaching and learning of chemistry. Building on our earlier work that identified five qualitatively different ways that teachers may use to unpack visual representations in their ...
Emelie Patron   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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