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Introduction: Framing nature and culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2016
Introduction: Framing nature and culture.
Lauri Linask, Riin Magnus
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Exploring the nature and strength of the semiotic relation: A case study about liminal species in Tartu

Sign Systems Studies, 2023
The case study described in this paper is part of an emerging cultural context in both its scientific as well as societal aspects, where animals are seen more and more as social and ethical subjects and their presence in the vicinity of humans is seen ...
Pauline Delahaye
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Meanings for the degrowth society: From the Great Acceleration to the semiosis of the living

Sign Systems Studies, 2023
The global ecological crisis has often been related to the so-called Great Acceleration, i.e. the rapid growth of many social metrics (population size, gross domestic product, energy usage, etc.) from the mid-20th century onwards.
Timo Maran
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Semiotics and Media Studies

, 2023
In this lecture, Carl Jones (University of Westminster) will discuss semiotics. In the first module, we look at how semiotics is connected to media studies. After this, we will look at the semiotics thinker Roland Barthes.
Jones, C.W.
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Darwin’s antithesis revisited – a zoosemiotic perspective on expressing emotions in animals and animal cartoon characters

Sign Systems Studies, 2019
In the animation and design of cartoon characters, animators have often turned to the study of biological theories and observation of human actors and animals to capture lifelike movements and emotions more successfully.
Jason Mario Dydynski, Nelly Mäekivi
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Juri Lotman on proper name

Sign Systems Studies, 2002
The article treats the concept of proper name in Juri Lotman’s semiotics, taking into account also studies in the same field by other authors of the Tartu-Moscow school (V. Ivanov, B. Ogibenin, V. Toporov, B. Uspenski). Focus is laid at three sub-topics:
Ülle Pärli, Eleonora Rudakovskaja
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The term ‘Biosemiotik’ in the 19th century

Sign Systems Studies, 2022
Tracing the emergence of biosemiotics, attention can be drawn to the very early usage of the term ‘biosemiotics’ (Biosemiotik) in the writings of Austrian chemist Vincenz Kletzinsky (1826–1882) that dates back to the 1850s.
Kalevi Kull
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Semiotics in ethics and caring

, 2023
The ethical dimension is implicit in human semiosis, but has only surfaced recently as a consistent object of study in semiotics. Global semiotics (Sebeok 2001) has facilitated this development by reconnecting semiotics with the life sciences, extending ...
Susan Petrilli
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On the analysis of power and politics from the perspective of Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2018
Review of Juri Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political [Series Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political] by Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, 228 pp.
Andreas Ventsel, Taras Boyko
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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