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Torop, Peeter. "Semiotics of cultural history." Sign Systems Studies 45, no. 3/4 (December 31, 2017): 317–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2017.45.3-4.07.

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The interpretation of cultural history in the context of cultural semiotics, especially interpretation of semiotics of cultural history as a semiotics of culture, and semiotics of culture as a semiotics of cultural history, gives us, first, a deeper understanding of the analysability of cultural history and, at the same time, of the importance of history and different aspects of temporality for the semiotics of culture. Second, the history of the semiotics of culture, especially the semiotics of culture of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, is an organic part of cultural history, while the self-presentation of the school via establishing explicit and implicit contacts with the heritage of Russian theory (the Formalist School, the Bakhtin circle, Vygotskij, Eisenstein etc) was already a semiotic activity and an object of the semiotics of cultural history. Third, the main research object of semiotics of culture is the hierarchy of the sign systems of culture and the existent as well as historical correlations between these sign systems. Such conceptualization of the research object of semiotics of culture turns the latter into a semiotics of cultural history. Emphasizing the semiotic aspect of cultural history can support the development of semiotics of culture in two ways. First, semiotics of culture has the potential of conducting more in-depth research of texts as mediators between the audience and the cultural tradition. Second, semiotics of culture as a semiotics of cultural history can be methodologically used for establishing a new (chronotopical) theory of culture.
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Boyko, Taras. "Reading Uspenskij: Soviet ‘semiotics of history’ in the West." Sign Systems Studies 45, no. 3/4 (December 31, 2017): 380–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2017.45.3-4.10.

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The article explores the reception of Boris Uspenskij’s writings and ideas outside of the Soviet Union, primarily in Western European and North American academic contexts. The present brief overview of Uspenskij’s academic reception covers the translations of his best-known scholarly works [first and foremost “Historia sub specie semioticae” and “Istoriya i semiotika (Vospriyatie vremeni kak semioticheskaya problema)”] into English, French, Spanish, German and other European languages, as well as various references to Uspenskij’s ideas on what nowadays would be categorized as ‘semiotics of history’, or thoughts at least in some way related to the ‘cultural-semiotic approach to history’ of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.
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Lenninger, Sara. "Culture in the layers of contemporary discourses and historical archives: A review of Anna Maria Lorusso’s Cultural Semiotics." Public Journal of Semiotics 8, no. 1 (February 13, 2018): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2017.8.17327.

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In Anna Maria Lorusso’s book Cultural semiotics: For a cultural perspective in semiotics (Lorusso, 2015) the reader is offered an initiated review of key representatives of 20th century structuralism in semiotics and its entries into poststructuralism, with focus on method of analysis. Related to the theoretical discussions on semiotics and culture, Lorusso offers a series of case studies in semiotic analysis of cultural texts. In this review article, I discuss and evaluate the four strands in cultural semiotics suggested by Lorusso. Further, I draw implications for deciding on the themes and objects of studies in a semiotic realm that focuses on text.
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Torop, Peeter. "Semiotics of mediation. Theses." Sign Systems Studies 40, no. 3/4 (December 1, 2012): 547–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2012.3-4.15.

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Semiotics of mediation is based on comparative analysis of mediation processes, on typology of forms of mediation and on the subsequent complementary analysis of culture. Not only does cultural analysis that is based on semiotics of mediation proceed from communication processes, it also searches for possibilities of correlation between concepts of describability, analysability, translatability. Depending on the strategy of mediation semiotics it is possible to create an overview of the main parameters of cultural analysis and to specify the boundaries of semiotic analysis of culture. The main types of mediation are simultaneously parameters of cultural analysis. The main types include autocommunicative mediation, metalingual mediation, intertextual mediation, interdiscursive mediation, and inter- or transmedial mediation. Typology of mediation types facilitates the understanding of the autocommunicative aspect of culture and creates the basis for analysing communication processes not on the level of the immediate sender and receiver but as part of the culture’s communication with itself. Semiotics of mediation starts from semiotic mediation and ends with a culture of mediation in which one and the same cultural language or text operates as a means of dialogue with itself, as a means of communication with others, as part of some textual system or discourse, or as a transmedial phenomenon. Semiotics of mediation is a means of studying the correlation between implicit semiotic mediation and forms of explicit semiotic mediation, thus complementing cultural semiotic study of culture.
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Grzybek, Peter. "Semiotics of history — historical cultural semiotics?" Semiotica 98, no. 3-4 (September 1, 1994): 341–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/semi-1994-983-406.

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Zhang, Jie, and Hongbing Yu. "A Cultural Semiotics of Jingshen: A Manifesto." Chinese Semiotic Studies 16, no. 4 (November 25, 2020): 515–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2020-0028.

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AbstractIn the face of myriad crises in modern societies, semiotic inquiry has many valuable contributions to make. However, the long-standing dominant analytical paradigms in the field have made it exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, to tackle the countless unanalyzable aspects of semiosis in the human condition. What needs to be done in semiotics is to highlight another mode of knowing, synthetic thinking, without excluding the analytical mode. Drawing inspiration and strength from classical Eastern philosophies and aesthetics, notably I Ching and Laozi, as well as classics and advances in global semiotics, the present paper proposes a cultural semiotics of jingshen, understood here as the holistic flux of mind, vitality, and creativity. This route of inquiry seeks cogent coalescence of the two foregoing modes of knowing so as to better inform semiotics in a new age. At the same time, it creates a unique methodology: the fusion of revelatory “embodied cognition” and “cognition via knowledge/ abstraction.” Viewed in this light, the purpose or function of semiotics is not limited to understanding signs and sign relations or uncovering laws governing the evolution of semiosis, but more importantly it embraces the improvement of mental capacity, the expansion of cognitive space, and the liberation of human thinking.
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Zhu, Haoyun, and Guangxiang Rao. "2018 Annual Report of Chinese Semiotic Studies." Signs and Media 1, no. 1 (August 25, 2020): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25900323-12340002.

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Abstract By analysing semiotic papers, works and academic conferences from 2018, this paper aims to describe the development of Chinese semiotics. During this year, the study of semiotics in China further advanced in the fields of Marxist semiotics, communication semiotics, cultural semiotics, ecological semiotics and art semiotics. Overall, theoretical explorations and the integration of applications became development trends in semiotics. Further, the traditional concept of semiotics gained new interpretations through the introduction of new methods and ideas. In turn, the ‘meaning’ attribute of semiotics provided a unique analytical perspective for cutting-edge topics such as artificial intelligence and ecological environments.
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Dondero, Maria Giulia. "Visual semiotics and automatic analysis of images from the Cultural Analytics Lab: How can quantitative and qualitative analysis be combined?" Semiotica 2019, no. 230 (October 25, 2019): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0104.

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AbstractIn this article we explore the relationship between semiotic analysis of images and quantitative analysis of vast image corpora, in particular the work produced by Lev Manovich and the Cultural Analytics Lab, called “Media Visualization.” Media Visualization has been chosen as corpus because of its metavisual operation (images are visualized and analyzed by images) and its innovating way of conceiving analysis: by visual instruments. In this paper semiotics is used as an approach to Media Visualization and taken as an object of study as well, especially visual semiotics. In this sense, a comparison between visual semiotics (close reading of small corpora) and quantitative analyses of images (distant reading of vast collections) are conducted from a semiotic point of view. Post-Greimassian semiotics guides this study with respect to the issue of the image-within-an-image and metavisual visualization; Peircean semiotics is employed to explain and develop the notion of diagram.
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Mouratidou, Eleni. "De la sémiotique de la représentation théâtrale à l’anthropologie culturelle: Pourquoi le théâtre (résiste)? — From the semiotics of theatrical representation to cultural anthropology or why theater (resists)?" Sign Systems Studies 34, no. 2 (December 31, 2006): 527–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2006.34.2.14.

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From the semiotics of theatrical representation to cultural anthropology or why theater (resists)? In this paper I propose an epistemological approach to the field of theatre semiotics from the beginning of the 20th century to our days. Firstly, I point out two different periods that have influenced theatre semiotics. The first one centres on reflections and studies by the Prague School of Structuralism. More precisely, I address Jan Mukařovsky’s essays about art and society as well as Jindrich Honzl’s contributions to the study of sign and system in theatre. The second period presented here is that of theatre semiotics in the early 70s and late 80s in France. My goal here is to expose the main reasons that led theatre semiotics to a deadlock in the early 90s. Theatre semiotic research has been rich and fruitful in the beginning of last century. However, in our days it is generally deemed unadvisable to describe theatre representation in terms of sign and system. Although theatre semiotics used to be presented in French university classes, it is no longer possible to do so. Even though general semiotics has progressed by denying the importance of structure and by refusing to search for the minimal sign and its code, theatre semiotics has remained faithful to old communicational semiotics research. Throughout my contribution, I would like to examine the kind of semiotic field best fit to approaching an artistic domain such as theatre. In other words, I would like to show that Western theatre, granted it can be seen as a semiotic object, is first and foremost an artistic and cultural one. In order to do so, I propose a theoretical and methodological framework based on a specific semiotic model: the “indicial semiology” proposed by Anne-Marie Houdebine. Inspired by Juri Lotman’s essays about culture and art, I will try to set “indicial semiology” in the general field of a cultural anthropology.
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Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. "Semiotics and Cultural Diversity." American Journal of Semiotics 7, no. 1 (1990): 5–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs199071/225.

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Boot, Katie. "Pictures and interpretations : towards an applied semiotics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2710.

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This is a study about the ways in which pictures can be interpreted and the ways in which they are interpreted; the latter, specifically, in a relatively remote part of Peru. Chapter II reviews an assortment of picture tests which bring to light differences in the ways pictures are perceived. Chapter III examines the specific cultural context in which a fairly informal picture test was administered. Chapter IV presents some results and asks what cultural and situational factors may have contributed to the variety in interpretations evident. The drawing of firm conclusions is precluded by the absence of any systematic approach to the interpretations or to the pictures themselves, and it is this which the second half of the study attempts to remedy; by providing a theoretical framework for the assessment of verbalized responses to pictures. Chapter V offers a definition of "picture" and locates it within a typology of indices. It also examines the notion of "visual resemblance", eventually adopting the view that any picture is infinitely ambiguous. Chapter VI introduces two methodological necessities consequent on this ambiguity: a stipulation as to the identity and the taxonomic specificity of any signified object; and a stipulation as to the spatial extension of its signifier. No other methodological content is presented. Chapter VII classifies types of verbalized responses in terms of their visual motivation, and the degree to which they interrelate the stipulated pictorial units. Chapter VIII acknowledges that signification may continue beyond the representational level. Further, postrepresentational, types of responses are classified in terms of the nature of the link maintained with the representational signified.
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Shin, Priscilla Zhi-Xian. "The Semiotics and Social Practices of Constructing a "Proper" Singaporean Identity." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982557.

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This dissertation investigates the semiotic resources that Singaporeans combine, balance, and negotiate in order to enact a “proper” Singaporean identity. The analysis considers a variety of semiotic resources, ranging from fine-grained phonetic variables to language varieties to education or career paths. The meaningful organization and use of these semiotic resources are situated within Singapore’s broader sociopolitical discourses of nationhood, that is, how Singaporeans perceive themselves as a nation and citizens of that nation according to participation—or non-participation—in institutional discourses. I show how the notion of being “proper” as well as evaluations of “properness” are associated with social and linguistic practices that index (Silverstein 2003) meanings of being global and local, often simultaneously or in balance. Furthermore, this work extends Eckert’s (2008) concept of indexical fields , acknowledging that variables index multiple social meanings, any one of which have the potential to be activated in use. In the enactment of a “proper” identity, I investigate how these meanings are continuously co-constructed in interaction (Bucholtz and Hall 2005).

The (re-)production of “proper” ways of speaking and being are part of the processes of enregisterment (Agha 2007), via a semiotic repertoire, which is then available for public circulation and performable cultural models of behavior. This work examines the range and flexibility of resources that constitute a semiotic repertoire through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses—connecting macro-level discourses, such as the circulation of sociocultural stereotypes, to variation in speakers’ day to day language use, including micro-level investigations, such as the perception of voice onset time in Singapore English. This work highlights the many ways in which social identities and meanings are contextualized in and emerge out of interactions that regiment and discipline the behaviors of the self and others.

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McGuire, Meghan S. "Covering Music: Tracing the Semiotics of Beatles'Album Covers Through the Cultural Circuit." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1112552888.

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Rezende, Maria Inez Martinez de. "A vida como ela é... : um fenômeno comunicacional /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89416.

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Resumo: Esta dissertação compreende a análise da capa do livro de contos de Nelson Rodrigues A Vida como ela é..., publicado pela editora Companhia das Letras, em 1992. Tendo como metodologia a Semiótica Francesa e partindo da hipótese de que a capa é a condensação das principais idéias do livro, vamos compará-lo com as demais capas dos outros volumes da coleção, assim também com os diversos produtos da indústria cultural nos quais A Vida como ela é... oi transformada. A obra em questão é um fenômeno comunicacional para a história das mídias brasileiras, pois está constantemente em evidência ao longo dos últimos 55 anos nos mais variados formatos. O autor Nelson Rodrigues, jornalista atuante e sempre polêmico, sofreu diversas interpretações e críticas na história da nossa cultura. Chegou a ser considerado, no início de sua carreira, autor de subliteratura. O reconhecimento de sua obra teatral começou nos anos 40, com a peça Vestido de Noiva, valendo-lhe o marco da dramaturgia moderna brasileira. Entretanto, no campo jornalístico, seu reconhecimento ocorre a partir dos anos 90 com as reedições de suas crônicas..
Abstract: This thesis is about the analyze of the A vida como ela é... book-cover, by Nelson Rodrigues, published by the Companhia das Letras Editor. The ethodology used is the French semiotics. At first it starts from the hypothesis that the book-cover is a condensation of the book's main ideas. We will compare it with the others book-covers of the Nelson Rodrigues's collection. We will also compare it with the several items of the cultural industry that A vida como ela é... have been transformed. It is a communication phenomena to the brazilian history of media, because it's frequently reviewed in the last 55 years in different formats. Nelson Rodrigues, an acting journalist and always polemic, has had a lot of critics in our culture history. At his career beginning, he has been considered a trashy literature author. His work o theater has been acknowledged at the beginning of the forties, with the play Vestido de Noiva, which gave him the brazilian modern dramaturgy mark. However, his acknowledgement in the journalistic field started only at the nineties, with his chronics publication.
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Lepkin, Murray Scott. ""Birds of paradise": The discourse semiotics of co-operative work in pre-Saharan Morocco." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290140.

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This is a study of an event, the twiza, a form of co-operative work regulated by codified practice ('rf), with the focus being on the way the event is managed (or even created) by talk, especially the talk of the leader or cix. Various kinds of indirection, especially the genre of "teasing" (tqcab), are seen to be crucial to understanding how the cix orchestrates talk in pursuit of his goals, alternating between persuasion and coercion, and how group members at times subvert, at times reinforce, the hegemony of the cix.
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Winslow, Andrew J. "The Myth Appeal: Studies in Cultural Narrative." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195177.

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Though Aristotle is famous for defining three persuasive appeals in his treatise On Rhetoric, I argue that a fourth appeal exists in the pages of The Poetics. In addition to character (ethos), logic (logos), and emotion (pathos), the fourth appeal is to narrative (mythos), or the substantive body of values contained within the socio-cultural elements of a given culture. Using the works of Joseph Campbell, Kenneth Burke, and Roland Barthes as touchstones, the goal of this dissertation is to offer a systematic analysis of this appeal. Because human beings at once function with attention to the whole of lived experience, the myth appeal touches on social norms (the assumed reality), ideology (the lived and presumed reality), and hyperreality (where symbols become a reality unto themselves). The substance of the myth appeal is narrative, or undercurrents of stories used in the place of argument. Here, I offer four examples to display these tensions; the first is an "action-figure" toy line to illustrate how an existing mythology from comics conveys ideological values; the second is a post 09/11 comic book series which used hyperreality to critique social norms; the third is Alan Sokal's academic hoax , which showed a cultural tension across all three areas; and finally, a survey of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on privacy to discuss the emerging mythology of abortion. I conclude with a systematic approach to myth, and a brief discussion of additional persuasive appeals.
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Rezende, Maria Inez Martinez de [UNESP]. "A vida como ela é: um fenômeno comunicacional." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89416.

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Esta dissertação compreende a análise da capa do livro de contos de Nelson Rodrigues A Vida como ela é..., publicado pela editora Companhia das Letras, em 1992. Tendo como metodologia a Semiótica Francesa e partindo da hipótese de que a capa é a condensação das principais idéias do livro, vamos compará-lo com as demais capas dos outros volumes da coleção, assim também com os diversos produtos da indústria cultural nos quais A Vida como ela é... oi transformada. A obra em questão é um fenômeno comunicacional para a história das mídias brasileiras, pois está constantemente em evidência ao longo dos últimos 55 anos nos mais variados formatos. O autor Nelson Rodrigues, jornalista atuante e sempre polêmico, sofreu diversas interpretações e críticas na história da nossa cultura. Chegou a ser considerado, no início de sua carreira, autor de subliteratura. O reconhecimento de sua obra teatral começou nos anos 40, com a peça Vestido de Noiva, valendo-lhe o marco da dramaturgia moderna brasileira. Entretanto, no campo jornalístico, seu reconhecimento ocorre a partir dos anos 90 com as reedições de suas crônicas..
This thesis is about the analyze of the A vida como ela é... book-cover, by Nelson Rodrigues, published by the Companhia das Letras Editor. The ethodology used is the French semiotics. At first it starts from the hypothesis that the book-cover is a condensation of the book's main ideas. We will compare it with the others book-covers of the Nelson Rodrigues's collection. We will also compare it with the several items of the cultural industry that A vida como ela é... have been transformed. It is a communication phenomena to the brazilian history of media, because it's frequently reviewed in the last 55 years in different formats. Nelson Rodrigues, an acting journalist and always polemic, has had a lot of critics in our culture history. At his career beginning, he has been considered a trashy literature author. His work o theater has been acknowledged at the beginning of the forties, with the play Vestido de Noiva, which gave him the brazilian modern dramaturgy mark. However, his acknowledgement in the journalistic field started only at the nineties, with his chronics publication.
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McGuire, Meghan. "Covering music : tracing the semiotics of Beatles album covers through the cultural circuit." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1112552888.

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Fidouh, Dalel. "Communicative semiotics in everyday life : cultural criticism : the image in the 21st century." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13679.

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What am I seeing? What does it mean? This thesis addresses the transformations in cultural life in the 21st century due to the cultural dominance of the image, which resulted from the radical change and enormous progress in the media, communication and the development of information systems in the world. All this has led to changes in the intellectual structure, and an increased tendency to drift in all areas, and the emergence of a society and a culture governed by the culture of shock. The fundamental issue concerning the image is an epistemological issue, as we cannot distinguish between the visual image and the semantic product. We live in a world surrounded with stunning and spectacular visual images. We are overloaded with images from all types in our everyday life. We probably see images more than we read words. This thesis provides an analytical framework for understanding how images produce meanings using the semiotic approach. Semiotics is the most important approach that can be used to analyze all types of images. Semiotic analysis addresses images as signs which communicate meaning. The symbols used in signs are often culturally specific. This thesis indicates the focus of the receiver to adapt to this visual cultural situation, to be able to grasp the content of the new cultural discourse as it is present in all the details of the receiver’s daily life. There have been a number of questions that pushed me to accomplish this research, including: what are the elements of the culture of the image? What is its impact on the mental perception and production of semantic meaning? What is its reflection on the nature of social networking in general? The thesis discussed all of these issues.
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Marner, Anders. "Burkkänslan : surrealism i Christer Strömholms fotografi : en undersökning med semiotisk metod." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för estetiska ämnen, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236.

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This dissertation is mainly concerned with the photography of Christer Strömholm. In studying his work semiotics is used as a method in analysing the rhetoric of his photographs and their relations to the photographic world, the artworld and the lifeworld. Especially the phenomenologically based visual and cultural semiotics of Göran Sonesson is adopted. The work of Strömholm is first understood in the context of surrealism; especially in the ”dark” surrealism of Georges Bataille´s. In relation to the I - here and nowposition of the lifeworld the surrealism of Bataille can be seen as a downwardgoing rhetoric on the Great Chain of Being, the hierarchy of the lifeworld, from stone, via object, plant and man, to society or God. Bataille´s highlighting of the material and animal nature of man is an opposition to the upwardgoing spiritualising rhetoric of André Breton´s. The main rhetorical device in Strömholm’s photography is a downwardgoing isolation of the object from the lifeworld, according to Jan-Gunnar Sjölin surrealism’s first maneuvre. However, Bataille´s rhetoric and Strömholm´s photography may also be seen as a modern variant of the ancient grotesque degradation that according to Michail Bakhtin once took place in popular carnivals and marketplaces. The degradation of Bakhtin, George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s notion of conceptual metaphor suggests a rhetoric of the lifeworld itself, which may allow us to understand pictorial rhetoric without the help of the theories of the artworld, such as surrealism’s theories. Strömholm´s work is studied in relation to Roman Jakobsons functions in the process of communication. The dominant function in the photographs is the metasemiotic, since pictures and other signs are depicted and commented on. Also the photographs of transsexuals depict and comment signs, men that are signs of women. His photographs of transsexuals has been interpreted as a social realistic documentary, but is better understood as a surrealist union of two terms as unlike as possible, femininity and masculinity. Another important function in his photographs is the interpersonal function suggesting a conjunction of emotive and conative functions. Along with isolation concealment of the object is used, which makes the object difficult to identify. We are not allowed to complete the act of perception, we see only the point of view. In Strömholm’s photography, the point of view of the invisible ”picture-self” with its unique perspective replaces the customary photographic referential image supposed to show “reality.” The notion of ”picture-self” suggests a differentiation between photographer and ”picture-self”, a ready-prepared position for a subject, that the photographer or viewer can place him/herself in. In being placed in this position an existential particualrization occurs, which is termed ”la condition humaine”. Walter Benjamin´s idea of ”the outmoded” and ”the ruins of the bourgeoisie”, Susan Sontag´s idea of the role of ugliness in modern photography, is seen in relation to Strömholms photography and the downwardgoing surrealist rhetoric. In Benjamin´s ”age of reproduction” there is in the photographic work of Strömholm, a tension between ”centripetality” and ”centrifugality”; of remaining in or departing from the artworld. His work is also discussed in relation to postvisualization as an opposition to the well known photographic notion of previsualization.   In order to explain different rhetorical maneuvres semiotically in relation to the spatial lifeworld, the notion of familiarization is used as an opposition to Victor Shklovskys well known notion of estrangement. In the model of “the Great Cross”, with its origo as the familiarity of the I-here-nowposition of the core of the lifeworld, a vertical axis is the Great Chain of Being, ending on both ends with what is considered strange. Also ending with what is strange is a horizontal axis with rhetorical relations on the same level. A similar cross is used to explain rhetorical temporal movements between past and present and present and future with the present I - here and nowsituation of the origo. A conclusion is that visual and cultural semiotics is an enlightening tool for practical analyses even of an œuvre that is as enigmatic as that of Strömholm´s.
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Books on the topic "Cultural semiotics"

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. Cultural Semiotics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999.

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Cultural semiotics, Spenser, and the captive woman. Bethlehem [Pa.]: Lehigh University Press, 1995.

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A, Koch Walter. Evolutionary cultural semiotics: Essays on the foundation and institutionalization of integrated cultural studies. Bochum: N. Brockmeyer, 1986.

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Mangieri, Rocco. El objeto cultural y sus sentidos: Ensayos semióticos. Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de Los Andes, Consejo de Publicationes, 1998.

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Rose lore: Essays in cultural history and semiotics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.

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Flinders University. Department of Archaeology, ed. Semiotic investigations in the maritime cultural landscape. [Adelaide, S. Aust.]: Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, 2008.

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1922-, Lotman I͡U︡ M., ed. Conversations with Lotman: Cultural semiotics in language, literature, and cognition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

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Merrell, Floyd. Processing cultural meaning. New York: Legas, 2007.

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Fu hao xue yu kua wen hua yan jiu: Semiotics and cross-cultural studies. Shanghai Shi: Fu dan da xue chu ban she, 2011.

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Sensing semiosis: Toward the possibility of complementary cultural "logics". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. "Introduction." In Cultural Semiotics, 1–19. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999_1.

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. "The Structuralist Perspective." In Cultural Semiotics, 21–65. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999_2.

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. "Unity and Pluralism: The Theory of Jurij Lotman." In Cultural Semiotics, 67–115. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999_3.

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. "Interpretation and Culture: Umberto Eco’s Theory." In Cultural Semiotics, 117–58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999_4.

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Lorusso, Anna Maria. "Ideas for an Archeological Semiotics." In Cultural Semiotics, 159–92. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137546999_5.

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Yaco, Sonia, and Arkalgud Ramaprasad. "Cultural Heritage Semiotics." In Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives, 49–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7697-8_4.

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Saltman, Michael. "Legal Realism in a Cross-Cultural Context." In Law and Semiotics, 293–305. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0771-6_20.

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Hedetoft, Ulf. "The Cultural Semiotics of ‘European Identity’." In Rethinking the European Union, 147–70. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25226-8_9.

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Parent, Roger. "Applied Cultural Semiotics, Interculturality, and Action-Research." In International Handbook of Semiotics, 805–35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9404-6_38.

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Cornish, Hannah. "Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems." In Experimental Semiotics, 113–38. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bct.45.07cor.

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Conference papers on the topic "Cultural semiotics"

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Leone, Massimo. "CULTURAL SEMIOTICS AS FLUXORUM SCIENTIA." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-009.

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Attri, Shalini, and Yogesh Chander. "Reproducing Meaning: A Dialogic Approach to Sports and Semiotics." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.11-3.

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The wide variety of the components of signs stems from verbal communication to visual gestures, ciphers, images, music, and Morse code. Barthes’ Semiotic Theory restructured the theory of analyzing signs and allowed for a new understanding and interpretation of signs through seeing diverse cultures and societies. Saussure’s definition of the sign as a combination of signifier and signified led Barthes to further elucidate sign as connotative (cultural) and denotative (literal) processes. Semiotics can be applied to all aspects of life, as meaning is produced not in isolation but in totality, establishing multiple connotations and denotations. In the article “The World of Wrestling” published in Mythologies (1957), Barthes focused on images portrayed by the wrestler resulting in understanding of the wrestler’s image and the image of spectator. In Morse code, gestures can make any sport a spectacle of suffering, defeat and justice, representation of morality, symbols, anger, smile, passion etc., from which derive denotative and connotative meanings. Similarly, Thomas Sebeok identifies sign as one of six factors in communication, and which makes up the rich domain of semiotic research. These are message, source, destination, channel, code, and context. The present paper will focus on a dialogic relation between semiotics and sports, thus making it a text that reproduces meaning and represents certain groups. It focuses on various aspects of semiotics and their relation to sports. The paper also contemplates the versions and meanings of signs in sports that establish sport as an act of representation.
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Long, Jinshun, and Jun He. "Cultural Semiotics and the Related Interpretation." In 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.340.

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Azarova, Veronica. "SOCIO-CULTURAL SIGNS IN POLITICAL DIALOGUE." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-145.

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Rossolatos, George. "TOWARDS THE CULTURAL BRANDING MODEL OF THE BRANDOSPHERE: FROM SHARE-OF-MARKET TO SHARE-OF-CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-157.

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Monteiro, Ricardo Nogueira de Castro. "SEMIOTICS OF CULTURAL HERITAGES: THE DIALECTICAL PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION AND REJECTION OF OTHERNESS IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE AL-ANDALUS CIVILIZATION." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-010.

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Haidar, Julieta, and Eduardo Chávez Herrera. "NARCO-TRAFFIC IN THE LIGHT OF CULTURAL SEMIOTICS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-024.

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Martinelli, Dario. "THE LITHUANIAN SINGING REVOLUTION AS CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SOURCE OF SOFT POWER." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-072.

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Baraldo, Matteo. "CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE AND THE SEMIOTIC PARADIGM: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM ANCIENT SPACES." In New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation. IASS Publications, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2014-153.

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Le Quoc, Hieu. "Intersemiotic Translation in Adaptation: The Case Study of the Adaptation of Narrative Poem The Tale of Kiều (Nguyễn Du) to Cải lương Film Kim Vân Kiều (Nguyễn Bạch Tuyết)." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.11-4.

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We are living in the age of adaptation. In contemporary art, the power of adaptation is evidenced by the fact that a textual semiotic system is continuously passing through the different genres and means to establish new texts. Adaptation is also an intercultural translation as each work adapted experiences a cultural shift so as to adapt to the target culture. Although The Tale of Kieu (Nguyen Du) made use of the plot of Kim Van Kieu, written as the pseudonym Qingxin Cairen (青心才人, Pure Heart Talented Man), in the Vietnamese artistic context, the tale can be considered as the “original text” that provides superabundant materials for other adaptations. The Tale of Kieu is one of the Nom poetries that has been most adapted to other art forms, particularly “cải lương” (reformed theatre). In this study, we analyze the case of video-cải lương Kim Van Kieu (directed by Nguyen Bach Tuyet), to determine modes of semiotic transposition from the narrative (narrative poem) to the performance/showing (video cải lương). This inter-semiotic translation process requires that the author adapts, selects, renounces, transforms as well as encodes/decodes, as semiotics, genre, and materials belonging to the verbal semiotic system to the nonverbal semiotic system, or vice versa. To concretize this, we analyze factors that were involved or omited during the adaptation of The Tale of Kieu to Kim Van Kieu.
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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.

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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Thornebrooke, Andrew. Stephen Langton, the Chanter Circle, and the Semiotics of Violence in a Crusading Culture. Portland State University Library, January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/honors.321.

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