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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 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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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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Introduction to the Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers [PDF]
, 2023 Every day, billions of emoji are sent via mobile devices and chat programs, messengers, and emails. The worldwide emoji standardization – established in 2010 by the California-based Unicode Consortium – was aimed at overcoming linguistic and cultural ...
Wilde, Lukas R.A., Sachs-Hombach, Klaus
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British 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
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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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A Semiotic View of Information: Semiotics as a Foundation of LIS Research in Information Behavior [PDF]
, 2006 Traditional information behavior studies in library and information science (LIS) research have focused on primarily two trends: one is to provide physical access to material objects and the other is to direct users to certain thoughts and ideas.
Huang, Sheng-Cheng
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective
British 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
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, 2016 The goal of organizational semiotics is to enable a better understanding of organizations by means of an analysis of documents, texts and communications as signs. Its theory is based on Peirce’s sign concept, the relation of the sign with itself, with its object, and interpretant.
Janos J. Sarbo, Jessica H. Yang
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social media platforms today have become essential for consumer‐brand interactions, with visual content playing a pivotal role in shaping engagement and brand perception. Although text‐based user‐generated content (UGC) has been widely studied, the potential of visual UGC, particularly in the travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) sector ...
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