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The Nature of Ostension [PDF]

Comparative Cinema, 2023
The initiating comparison for this essay is between two images, or shots; one appears in Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Black Pond (2018), and shows two people looking offscreen, surrounded by dense woodland; the other is reprinted and described in Bruno Latour’s essay “Circulating Reference” (1999) and shows three scientists near a border between a savanna ...
O'Brien, Adam, O'Brien, Adam
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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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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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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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Elucidation and Ostension in the Tractatus

Disputatio, 2022
Wittgenstein writes at §3.263 of the Tractatus that “[t]he meanings of primitive signs can be explained by elucidations. Elucidations are propositions that contain the primitive signs.  They can therefore only be understood if the meanings of these signs are already known”.
Oscar Joffe
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On Probatory Ostension and Inference

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This contribution discusses two theses on juridical evidence: the ostension thesis and the inference thesis. According to the first, the process of juridical proof typically requires some ostensive act. In this sense the evidence consists in some element susceptible of being shown, or exhibited, or indicated to someone in a given context.
Tuzet, Giovanni, Giovanni Tuzet
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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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"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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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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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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