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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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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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Sign Systems Studies, 2013 The paper provides an empirical study of semiotic mechanisms of culture. We apply the methodology developed by the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, building also on the criteria of boundary-work dynamics to examine a collected corpus of adverts ...
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak +1 more
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 174-192, April 2024.Abstract This article presents a history of the imperial government’s regulation of Ukrainian cultural associations, which appeared around the Romanov Empire in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. It centers on the prehistory, drafting, and implementation of Circular No. 2 (1910), issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and signed by Petr Stolypin
Anton Kotenko
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Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation
Sign Systems Studies, 2008 Lotman’s contribution to semiotic theory, anthroposemiotics, the study of artistic texts and defining the relationship between language and culture represent some of the most powerful work produced within the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics.
Edna Andrews, Elena Maksimova
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