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Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma: Bühler's and Peirce's semiotic
Sign Systems Studies, 2013 Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents).
Donna E. West
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The Emergence of Symbol-Based Communication in a Complex System of Artificial Creatures [PDF]
, 2005 We present here a digital scenario to simulate the emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world of predatory events. In order to design the environment and creatures, we seek theoretical and
El-Hani, Charbel +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 200-213, September 2025.Abstract The Sundarbans as a region is shared between Bangladesh (60%) and India (40%) and forms an intriguing geography to understand not only the consequences of macro‐political landmarks such as the partition, it is an arable field to explore the intersections of people, history, and politics‐ with a particular recognition of the constructions ...
Sneha Roy
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Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 3228-3245, June 2025.ABSTRACT Recently, scholarly communities of practice have emerged with the objective of decolonizing knowledge practices within sustainable development. Their contributions to sustainability and systems change remain underexplored, possibly due to the absence of appropriate conceptual tools to analyze them. This study applies a new conceptual framework
Sarah Cummings +2 more
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Une linguistique au-delà de l’humain ?
Itinéraires, 2020 This article aims to discuss the relevance of considering an interspecies semiosis, both in theoretical and empirical terms. It revisits the recent work of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, who claims for an “anthropology beyond the human” (2013) and proposes
Chloé Mondémé
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram [PDF]
, 2014 The icon is the type of sign connected to efficient representational features, and its manipulation reveals more information about its object. The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is an iconic artifact and a well-known example of representational ...
Atã, Pedro +2 more
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De Peirce en Castañares: Paideia y Agapismo
Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, 2020 Texto en homenaje a la figura y a la obra de Wenceslao castañares, en el que se reflexiona con profundidad sobre los conceptos y las actitudes del profesor citado, señalando cómo su ejercicio de la docencia y la investigación era acorde con algunos de ...
Gonzalo Abril
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
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Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of cartographic semiosis
Sign Systems Studies, 1998 Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of cartographic ...
Anti Randviir
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