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On the semiosphere

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2005
This article, first published in Russian in 1984 in Sign Systems Studies, introduces the concept of semiosphere and describes its principal attributes. Semiosphere is the semiotic space, outside of which semiosis cannot exist.
Juri Lotman, Wilma Clark
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Totality of semiosphere

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 1998
Review: Jesper Hoffmeyer, Signs of Meaning in the ...
Sergey V. Chebanov
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Umwelt and semiosphere

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2002
In the paper an attempt is made to treat the basic concepts of biosemiotics and semiotics of culture in a wide intellectual context. The three leading paradigms of the current intellectual discourse are distinguished, which could be conventionally ...
Mihhail Lotman
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Introduction: Religion in the semiosphere

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2023
Introduction: Religion in the ...
Thomas-Andreas Põder   +1 more
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Semiosphere: A chemistry of being

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2002
The concept of semiosphere coined by Lotman in analogy of Vernadsky’s biosphere can be considered as a starting point for the new model in the semiotics of culture that enables us to conceptualise the human culture in its great diversity, as well as a ...
Kaie Kotov
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Biosphere as semiosphere: Variations on Lotman

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2014
The analogy between semiosphere (world of cultures) and biosphere (world of life), coined by J. Lotman, is a courageous attempt to interconnect two seemingly incompatible worlds.
Anton Markoš
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Utopian semiospheres: Isolation and dialogue across borders

open access: yesSign Systems Studies
The paper applies Juri Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere to utopian studies with the aim of identifying the principal components and mode of functioning of classic utopian discourse.
Artur Blaim, Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
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Intra-Cultural Semiotics of a Combined Bird-with-Female-Head Motif in Metal Rings of the Semiosphere of the Seljuks of Iran [PDF]

open access: yesزن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2022
Human-bird hybrid motifs have broad and sometimes conflicting meanings in many parts of the world. In the Islamic era, despite the prohibition of human and animal motifs, this motif is still used in works such as rings of the Seljuk period with a female ...
Moeine ossadat Hejazi   +1 more
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The Relationship between Turkic-Mongol Myths and Shamanism with ‘White Horse’ from the Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh miniatures: A Cultural Semiotics Study [PDF]

open access: yesهنر اسلامی, 2022
Relying solely on the literary text in studying the Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh has led, in some cases, to misunderstanding the signs in it miniatures. Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is a literary text from an Iranian discourse and focused on poetic language whereas ...
Mansour Hoseinpour Mizab   +2 more
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The Semiosphere of Argumentation as Speech and Thought Activity

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2023
The systemic nature of semiosphere organization correlates with the systemic nature of argumentation as human speech and thought activity. Argumentation is a part of semiotic continuum of human speech and thinking, forming complex subsystems of ...
Galina M. Kostyushkina   +2 more
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