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On the Notion of «Secondary Modeling Systems»: the History of the Early Russian Structuralism
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2010 The article treats the history of «the secondary modeling systems» term-formation within the frames of the general theory of the early Tartu-Moscow semiotic school, as well as some interpretations are given in favour of this very notion for Russian ...
N V Poselyagin
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An owl and a mirror: On Bosch’s visual motif’s meaning
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 Our main goal in this paper is to study one Hieronymus Bosch’s iconographic motif, an owl, considering the iconography, production of meaning and connotations.
Jelena Melnikova-Grigorjeva +1 more
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The place of language among sign systems: Juri Lotman and Émile Benveniste
Sign Systems Studies, 2013 This paper seeks to shed light on an unwritten chapter in the history of Tartu semiotics, that is, to draw a parallel between Juri Lotman and Émile Benveniste on the status of natural language among other systems of signs.
Remo Gramigna
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Constructing a Text, Creating an Image: The Case of Johannes Barbarus [PDF]
, 2018 The Estonian poet, physician and politician Johannes Vares-Barbarus (1890–1946) is a contradictory figure in Estonian history and culture. He was a well-known and acknowledged doctor named Vares, but also a poet named Barbarus who was notable for his ...
Kõvamees, Anneli
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On the independence of the humanities: Tartu–Moscow School and official Soviet politics of science
Sign Systems Studies, 2011 Review: Maxim Waldstein, Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics.
Andreas Ventsel
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New Waves, New Spaces: Estonian Experimental Cinema of the 1970s [PDF]
, 2010 Using the label of “new wave” in the context of Estonian cinema is highly problematic and controversial because, unlike in France or, to take a more similar socio-political framework, in Czechoslovakia, the (Soviet) Estonian filmic arena did not see a ...
Naripea, Eva
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The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021
Middle East Policy, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 67-82, Summer 2024.Abstract Since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, Israel's reactions have been met with criticism from a key friend: Russia. However, Moscow's public condemnation of the humanitarian crisis has not changed its material or normative policies toward Israel in other respects.
Chen Kertcher, Dima Course
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Sign Systems Studies, 2011 The article regards children’s literature as a certain cultural tool. This approach enables to reveal various characteristic aspects of the poetics of children’s literature, while relating them to children’s cognitive and cultural development.
Mari Niitra
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Fedor Bucholtz, mycologist and his herbarium [PDF]
, 2010 Beginning shortly after the death of Fedor Bucholtz in 1924 correspondence was initiated by Roland Thaxter with Alexander Bucholz, mycologist Fedor Bucholtz’s son, concerning the purchase of his father’s herbarium and library. This began an exchange that
Pfister, Donald H.
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TAXON, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 556-572, April 2024.Abstract Alexander A. Tatarinow (1817?–1886) made an extensive collection of vascular plants and insects in North China and Mongolia while serving as a physician in the 12th Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing during 1841–1850. Tatarinow's plant collection included about 800 species and became the basis for 70 new species, of which 12 ...
Alexander N. Sennikov
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