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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
wiley   +1 more source

The semiotics of printed instructions (graphic signa) [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis sets out to describe sign systems for communication using Axiomatic Functionalism as its theoretical framework. In doing so, the thesis also provides an important test to the claim of Axiomatic Functionalism that by using its premisses ...
Toumajian, Trak-Sarkis
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Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse sources of normativity in open science and their implications for ethical governance

Royal Society Open Science
Over the past decade, open science (OS) has emerged as a global science policy and research initiative with implications for most aspects of research, including planning, funding, publishing, evaluation, data sharing and access.
Kadri Simm, Jaana Eigi-Watkin
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Eduardo Kohn’s guide to forest thinking

Sign Systems Studies, 2014
Review of How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human, by Eduardo Kohn. Berkley: University of California Press, 2013.
Riin Magnus
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Body ground red – integrating Peirce, Kristeva and Greimas

Sign Systems Studies, 2020
Ground (Charles Peirce’s concept) – regardless whether it be taken as motivation or abstractness – affords the proposition that some abstract categories of meaning have acquired their qualities via bodily experience. In order to show this to be the case,
Herman Tamminen
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Comment to Mário Santiago de Carvalho, “Semiotics: From Deely to Couto”

, 2022
Comment to Mário Santiago de Carvalho, “Semiotics: From Deely to Couto”. International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of his Passing.
Leblanc, Hélène, International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of his Passing   +1 more
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic semiotics as a basis for an agent-oriented conceptual modelling methodology

, 2007
In their chapter, "Systemic Semiotics as a basis for an Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling Methodology", Rodney Clarke and collaborators use concepts from the field of systemic semiotics (most specifically the notion of genre) to derive an Agent ...
Ghose, A. K., Clarke, Rodney,, Krishna, A.   +2 more
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Contemporary applications of umwelt theory. Introduction

Sign Systems Studies
Contemporary applications of umwelt theory ...
Riin Magnus, Nelly Mäekivi
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