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Semiotics, culture and space

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2014
Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of ...
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos   +1 more
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Mapping the child’s world: The cognitive and cultural function of proper names in the book series Paula’s Life

open access: yesSign 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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Boundary mechanisms in adverts from Silesian Catholic periodicals from the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries

open access: yesSign 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 place of language among sign systems: Juri Lotman and Émile Benveniste

open access: yesSign 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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Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation

open access: yesSign 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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The text in the context of the Tartu Semiotic School: problems and prospects

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2019
In this article, I discuss problems associated with the emergence and development of the concept of text, which is central to the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School (TMS). The first prob­lem is the interrelation between statics and dynamics.
Lotman M. Yu.
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Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2005
Since 1984 when J. Lotman’s article “On semiosphere” was published, this concept has been moving from one terminological field to another. In the disciplinary terminological field of the Tartu–Moscow School semiotics of culture, ‘semiosphere’ is ...
Peeter Torop
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Boris Uspenskij on history, linguistics and semiotics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2017
The two interviews with Boris Uspenskij on history and the contemporary state of linguistics and semiotics discuss the necessity to elaborate a common terminology in semiotics, at the same time speaking about perspectives for interdisciplinary research ...
Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull
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The past-oriented Iranian culture: A semiotic analysis of the "Tunnel Zaman" program on “Manoto” TV Channel [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān
This research aims to explain the cultural dynamics of Iranian society, part of which, lies in the contrast between past-oriented and future-oriented cultures.
Fatemeh Montazeri Hedeshi   +1 more
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Czech and Tartu-Moscow semiotics: The cultural semiotics of Vladimir Macura (1945-1999)

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2000
Among the national scientific groups, it was the Prague Linguistic Circle that had the most decisive affinity to the work of the Moscow-Tartu school. This paper examines the work of one of the most tireless contemporary Czech interpreters of the Lutman ...
Thomas G. Winner
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