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Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics [PDF]

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
The article demonstrates, through a series of examples, that reflection on signs relates to two distinct mental operations: the exchange of sign messages between subjects (com­mu­nication), and the interpretation of signs and sign systems that lack a ...
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
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Typology of Ancient Architectural Designs in Gillan in Accordance with the Role of Some Handmade Arts of This Region with Emphasis on Peirce Idea [PDF]

هنر اسلامی, 2017
One of the most important issues in the field of keeping a region or an area or a city's history & homeland alive is to find some symbols which are remained from past.
Setareh Ali Zadeh, Jamalodin Soheili
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Pluralism of truths in pragmatic political discourse

Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2014
Pragmatism is of some interest to the political and philosophical research as a consecution epistemological basis of that can be observed in political practice. Just the question of truth is crucial.
A. I. Setova
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UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration

Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2015
Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among others, businesses, media, public persons, and, particularly willingly, politicians.
Michaluk Tomasz, Pezdek Krzysztof
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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