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Revisiting Ostension in Folkloristics

Semiotic Review
Semiotic analysis in folkloristics usefully centers on iconicity, ostension, and indexicality as modes of representation active in performances of expressive culture.
John Holmes McDowell
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Res Ipsa

Semiotic Review
This article attempts to reconcile the semiotic model of ostension with the markedly different folkloristic use of the term. In semiotics, as well as linguistics and philosophy, ostension may be glossed as showing, rather than telling.
Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Remo Gramigna
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Modality ostenze // Modalities of ostension [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2017
The essay argues for broader understanding of “ostension”, introduced into semiotics by Ivo Osolsobě and Umberto Eco, in a gamut going from the “ostensive” (biosemiotic) language, through “ostensive definition” and showing of an “object” or a “thing ...
Emil Volek
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010
This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist”

Semiotic Review
This essay offers a multimodal performance analysis of a widely documented international folktale. The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension ...
Richard Bauman
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Deferred Ostension of Extinct and Fictive Kinds [PDF]

, 2023
This paper addresses two problems concerning the deferred ostension of extinct and fictive kinds. First, the sampled item, the fossil or the depiction, is not a sample of the referent.
Engelland, Chad
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Crockford C, Wittig RM, Girard-Buttoz C.
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Disruption of Epistemic Trust in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Possible Adaptation to Avoid Making Costly Mistakes. [PDF]

Personal Ment Health
ABSTRACT This paper applies error management theory (EMT) (Haselton and Buss 2000) to explore how disruptions in epistemic trust—trust in communicated information—can be understood as adaptive responses to early adversity in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Kurt Y.
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Convergent minds: ostension, inference and Grice's third clause. [PDF]

Interface Focus, 2017
A prevailing view is that while human communication has an ‘ostensive-inferential’ or ‘Gricean’ intentional structure, animal communication does not.
Moore R.
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Memoria y gráfica popular en el espacio público: un acercamiento cromático desde la semiótica

Conexión, 2023
Este artículo analiza el rol de la memoria cultural a través de los signos plásticos cromáticos del anuncio gráfico popular peruano. El corpus o material empírico considera la producción gráfica-publicitaria que circula en el espacio público en el ...
Eduardo Enrique Yalán Dongo
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