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Semiotics of Literary Critical Activity
Гуманитарный вектор, 2020 The crisis of literary criticism occurred in the 1990s and forced critics to rethink their status, the way they talk about the text, and communication with the reader.
Yulia A. Govorukhina
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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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Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens
Sign Systems Studies, 2016 This paper analyses the cultural and biosemiotic bases of human attitudes towards other species. A critical stance is taken towards species neutrality and it is shown that human attitudes towards different animal species differ depending on the ...
Nelly Mäekivi, Timo Maran
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Semiotics of threats: Discourse on the vulnerability of the Estonian identity card
Sign Systems Studies, 2019 This article analyses various e-threats that were expressed in media texts that focused on e-threat discourses concerning the Estonian identity card’s security risk in 2017. The discourse of cyberthreats contains strong and controversial meanings because
Andreas Ventsel, Mari-Liis Madisson
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, 2020 Augustine was the first to argue that the signum is a tool or means commonly used to carry out various types and levels of communication. This view was considered surprising in his day because in the philosophical world of Greece or ancient Rome, which was dominated by this philosophy, no single view of the sign was the same as we believe today.
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Denotation and connotation in the human-computer interface: The ‘Save as...’ command [PDF]
, 2004 This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor.
Chris Condon +4 more
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Sign Systems Studies, 2020 Despite the common knowledge that there is something “Pythagorean” about Charles Peirce’s phenomenology and classification of signs there is a manifest lack of inquiries into the matter. Perhaps there is too little to go on, as Pythagoras himself did not
Rasmus Rebane
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From Biosemiotics to Semiotics [PDF]
, 2002 Biosemiotics and Semiotics have similarities and differences. Both deal with signal and meaning. One difference is that Biosemiotics covers a domain (life) that is less complex that the one addressed by Semiotics (human).
Menant, Christophe
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This review examines the role of open citations in fostering transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility in scholarly communication. Through a critical synthesis of diverse sources—articles, proceedings, presentations, datasets, and blog posts—it explores the motivations behind citing, the evolving meanings of citations, and key ...
Zehra Taşkın
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SEMIOTICS OF BIOSIGNATURES [PDF]
Southern Semiotic Review, 2018 This article examines the interpretation of biosignatures, the signs of life that could bedetected in outer space. In astrobiology biosignatures could be of various kinds, fossils, molecules, traces, artefacts, structures, electromagnetic waves, etc.
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