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The deixis of literature: On the conditions for recognizing computers as authors
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 309-322, August 2024.Abstract Taking the deictic judgment that is the modernist gesture of declaring something to be art as a starting point, this essay suggests an analogous deixis as a necessary condition for literature. This deixis also can serve as the basis for discussing the expectations of computer‐generated texts.
Hannes Bajohr
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Biology for linguists: An obstacle or a royal path to concept building?
Sign Systems Studies, 2018 Exchanging models, metaphors and analogies between biology and linguistics is well known, and August Schleicher’s book Die Darwinsche Theorie und die Sprachwissenschaft (1863) is a typical work in this line of thought.
Patrick Sériot
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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Symbolic Interaction, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 123-141, May 2024.Excerpted from my book Generally Speaking, this paper introduces “concept‐driven sociology,” a special way of theorizing designed to reveal abstract social patterns. As such, it examines the methodological process by which we can “distill” generic patterns from the culturally, historically, and situationally specific contexts in which we encounter them.
Eviatar Zerubavel
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Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 226-252, May 2024.This article offers a cultural cognitive theory of sexual violence: a Zerubavelian reading of its classificatory, attentional, perceptual, semiotic, mnemonic, and temporal dimensions. It maps the asymmetric syntactic contrasts between the cultural trifecta of “Victim‐Survivors,” “Victimizers,” and the hitherto unnamed, taken‐for‐granted “Unvictims ...
Gabrielle LaFleur
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British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 1041-1059, May 2024.Abstract Research on the educational applications of social robots has shown how they can motivate children and help improve academic learning outcomes. Here, we examine how robots can support skill learning and, more specifically, musical instrument practice.
Heqiu Song +3 more
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BD, manga, manfra, Nouvelle Manga: distinctions au moyen des matériaux de l’énonciation
Alternative Francophone, 2016 La popularité des mangas a suscité l’émergence en France de nouveaux artistes qui en imitent le style et qui produisent ce qu’on appelle des « manfras ».
Sylvain Rheault
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Translation and analogical reasoning
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 211-224, April 2024.Abstract This article argues that the dissemination of literatures across historical and cultural divides follow partly random analogical pathways, not least pushed by translations. By contrast, within traditional comparative literature hierarchical centre/periphery models for literary transmissions were to a large extent based on the idea of a ...
Svend Erik Larsen
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Poética estrutural em movimento: Jan Mukařovský e Roman Jakobson
RUS (São Paulo), 2021 Há muitas perspectivas que podemos adotar quando escrevemos uma história da teoria e da crítica literárias e, de um modo mais amplo, uma história do pensamento literário.
Ondrei Sladek
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