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Semiotics of threats: Discourse on the vulnerability of the Estonian identity card

open access: yesSign 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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Semiotics of Literary Critical Activity

open access: yesГуманитарный 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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On the analysis of power and politics from the perspective of Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture

open access: yesSign 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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From Biosemiotics to Semiotics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Understanding Visualization: A formal approach using category theory and semiotics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article combines the vocabulary of semiotics and category theory to provide a formal analysis of visualization. It shows how familiar processes of visualization fit the semiotic frameworks of both Saussure and Peirce, and extends these structures ...
Faith, Joe   +2 more
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotics Analysis of Cibuntu Tourism Village Logo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cibuntu Tourism Village is located in Pesawahan District, Kuningan Regency, West Java. Its ancient heritage and racial landscape have made the Cibuntu Tourism Village win national and international awards in the community-based tourism category.
Aditya, A. (Aditya)   +1 more
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
wiley   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotic of pretext, semiotics of pre-text

open access: yesSemiotica, 2014
Semioticians obsessively talk about texts and their analysis. Yet, in the history of semiotics, few texts have been analyzed. One might even argue that semiotics has never analyzed texts. Indeed, semioticians, including the fathers of the discipline, have rather turned texts into pretexts: what mattered in their analysis was not to bring about a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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