Semiotics

El Destinador Supremo. Análisis semiótico de los mecanismos discursivos en la epístola a los Romanos B del Corpus Paulinum

by Jatniel Villarroel

Este libro presenta un análisis lingüístico hecho a partir de la Semiótica de las pasiones. El corpus escogido corresponde a la epístola Romanos B (Romanos 1, 1-15) del apóstol San Pablo, simulacro epistolar de contenido cristiano moralizante. El análisis semiótico hecho a la carta muestra que las nociones de esperanza y temor son las categorías tímicas que fundamentan las estructuras semio-narrativas que se encuentran en el mensaje salvífico del Apóstol. Tales disposiciones afectivas articulan el discurso paulino y han logrado influenciar el mensaje cristiano hasta nuestros días pues, a partir de ellas se ha modalizado la fe como categoría del saber unida a la esperanza en Dios mientras que el miedo se ha adosado al no saber y se relaciona al desconocimiento, a la incertidumbre y a la muerte. Por lo tanto, el evangelio paulino ha elaborado un campo significativo que se vale de los ideales extracorpóreos de la vida eterna, creencia en Dios, esperanza y fe como problemas ontológicos se contraponen al goce, la lujuria y al ateísmo como resultado del no temor en la sociedad.

Palabras clave: San Pablo, cristianismo, Semiótica de las pasiones, discurso epistolar.

This research presents a linguistic analysis made from the semiotics of the passions. The corpus chosen corresponds to... more This research presents a linguistic analysis made from the semiotics of the passions. The corpus chosen corresponds to the epistle Romans B (Romans 1, 1-15) by St. Paul; this is an epistolary model which contains moralizing aspects of Christianity. The semiotic analysis made in the letter shows that the notions of hope and fear are the categories that base the thymic semio-narrative structures founded in the saving message of the Apostle. These affective dispositions articulate St. Paul’s discourse and have influenced the Christian teaching to date because, they have modalized faith as a category of knowledge attached to hope in God, while fear is connected to not knowing and related to ignorance, uncertainty and death. Therefore, the Pauline gospel has made a significant field that uses extracorporeal ideals of eternal life, belief in God, hope and faith as ontological problems in opposition to enjoyment, lust, and atheism as a result of a lack of fear in society.

Keywords: semiotics of the passions, Christianity, Saint Paul, epistolary speech.

Analytic Aesthetics: An Inquiry

by Phila Mfundo Msimang

Chronicles of Complexity (TPCS draft)

by Jan Blommaert

Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology

by Daniel Allington

Co-edited by Barbara Mayor; published by Routledge in March 2012

Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology looks at how people use spoken and written English to communicate in... more Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology looks at how people use spoken and written English to communicate in their everyday lives.

Exploring the complex relationship between communication, technology and the English language, this book offers the reader practical insights into the analysis of speech and writing. A wide range of examples is provided, ranging from text messages and domestic quarrels to the works of Shakespeare and the words of Martin Luther King.

This book takes a fresh look at established topics such as rhetoric, language acquisition, and professional communication, as well as covering exciting new fields such as everyday creativity, digital media, and the history of the book. Key theoretical concepts are introduced in an accessible manner, and the reader is given an in-depth understanding of English-language communication in its social and historical contexts.

Drawing on the latest research and on the Open University’s experience of producing accessible and innovative texts, this book:

• explains basic concepts and assumes no previous study of English studies, communication studies or linguistics

• features a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters

• includes contributions from leading experts in their fields, including Naomi Baron, Deborah Cameron, Guy Cook, Janet Holmes and Almut Koester

• has a truly international scope, encompassing examples and case studies from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia

• is illustrated in full colour and includes a comprehensive index.

Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology is essential reading for all students of English language studies or communication studies.

"Structuralism(s) Today: Paris, Prague, Tartu." Ottawa: Legas Press, 2009.

by Andrés Pérez-Simón

Co-edited with Veronika Ambros, Roland LeHuenen and Adil D'Sousa.

Litteraturen. Kroppen. Masken. Til en Læsningens Semiotik

by John Thobo-Carlsen

Published by University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense,1999

En æstetisk kommunikationssemiotik interesserer sig primært for forholdet mellem tegn og virkelighed ud fra en... more En æstetisk kommunikationssemiotik interesserer sig primært for forholdet mellem tegn og virkelighed ud fra en forestilling om, at vi uophørligt ankommer til virkeligheden. Hermed menes, at der i den æstetiske kommunikation ligger oplevelsen af et vanskeligt administrerbart paradoks, som populært sagt drejer sig om fornuftens distance til virkeligheden på den ene side og kroppens nærhed til den på den anden side. En eksistentiel paradoksrig erfaring, som resulterer i en nærmest umættelig lyst til at kunne leve med sin erfaring uden ubehaget ved det paradoksale, en lyst, som i længden ikke lader sig spise af med rutiner, vaner og anden rimelighed af privat eller konsensuel karakter. Netop ikke.

Kommunikation i et æstetisk lys har således altid et dobbelt vilkår, som må tages i betragtning, når et fænomens kommunikerbarhed skal vurderes, nemlig intellekt og krop. Forfatteren ønsker at forfølge det synspunkt, at enhver æstetisk udfoldelse må mødes af en kreativ æstetisk læsning, der på alle dialogplaner modsvarer den forpupningproces som - i litteraturens tilfælde - skrivningen og skribentrollerne er en udfoldelse af. Bogen giver samtidig et bud på en dialogisk poetik, der kombinerer Mikhail Bakhtins, Roland Barthes´, Walter Benjamins og Gérard Genettes syn på sprog, kommunikation og litterær udsigelse.

Inter-lektualitet. Læsningens semiotik og etik [Inter-lectuality. A Semiotics and Ethics of Reading]

by John Thobo-Carlsen

Published (in Danish) by University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2009.

The book combines the Russian language philosopher and literary theorist and critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of... more The book combines the Russian language philosopher and literary theorist and critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism in verbal art and the French literary and cultural theorist and critic Roland Barthes' dynamic theories of reading literature. The book focuses thus on form concepts and a vision of the literary phenomenon that partly concedes literature's innate ambiguity partly is able to intercept the text’s special aesthetic expression and way of communicating through each single reading’s natural attempt to connect what is read with the reader’s own and daily life.
Inter-lectual semiotics is a sign-sensitive way of looking at verbal textuality that rests on the idea that the reading of a literary text establishes a complex space of dialogical relations between the instances of a reader and that of a writer, which makes them capable of communicating with each other. To the duality, there always must be associated with on the one hand the act of writing literature, namely to inquire under the guise of claiming, corresponds on the other hand the duality associated with the act of reading and/or interpreting literature, namely the answer under the guise of responding or wondering. It is as such a re-ply or answer(ability) that the book with its concepts of inter-lectuality and the semiotics and ethics of reading understands the nature of the creative, dialogical and ethical reading of literature.
The book contains a series of reading-based analyses of literary texts by such writers as Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett as well as analyses of cultural performativities of a sign-dense character from our physical daily life. This outlines a real body-semiotics and a narrative therapy in the light of the overall concept of inter-lectuality.

The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma in the Communal Age

by Areli Marina

Penn State University Press, 2012.

During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture... more During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piazza Transformed, Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma’s urban center in this tumultuous period by reconstructing the city’s two most significant public spaces: its cathedral and communal squares. Treating the space of these piazzas as attentively as the buildings that shape their perimeters, she documents and discusses the evolution of each site from 1196, tracing their construction by opposing political factions within the city’s ruling elite. By the early fourteenth century, Parma’s patrons and builders had imposed strict geometric order on formerly inchoate sites, achieving a formal coherence attained by few other cities.

Moreover, Marina establishes that the piazzas’ orderly contours, dramatic open spaces, and monumental buildings were more than grand backdrops to civic ritual. Parma’s squares were also agents in the production of the city-state’s mechanisms of control. They deployed brick, marble, and mortar according to both ancient Roman and contemporary courtly modes to create a physical embodiment of the modern, syncretic authority of the city’s leaders. By weaving together traditional formal and iconographic approaches with newer concepts of the symbolic, social, and political meanings of urban space, Marina reframes the complex relationship between late medieval Italy’s civic culture and the carefully crafted piazzas from which it emerged.

Wilce 2009 Language and Emotion

by James Wilce

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2326878/?site_locale=en_US

Textures lumineuses: éblouissements, ombres et obsurités

by Shawn Huffman

Tout espace, tout corps qui existe visuellement baigne dans une lumière. Celle-ci donne vie à l’espace, le meuble et... more Tout espace, tout corps qui existe visuellement baigne dans une lumière. Celle-ci donne vie à l’espace, le meuble et le métamorphose en modulant corps et objets. La lumière anime le spectacle au rythme de ses changements et emporte le sujet dans une fluidité perceptive mettant en relief sa dimension émotive. L’existence visuelle représente un cas particulier de l’existence corporelle, car la mise en lumière fait apparaître des univers sémiotiques en lien avec les dispositifs perceptifs du sujet. Les essais de ce travail collectif abordent les différentes relations entre le sujet et la lumière par le biais de la notion de texture lumineuse. Pour mieux comprendre cette notion, nous avons organisé cette réflexion en trois volets qui représentent trois états lumineux différents : l’éblouissement, l’ombre et l’obscurité.

Culto e successo. Il ruolo dell'intertestualità

by Eduardo Grillo

Chapter of the book Andrea Bernardelli (ed.), La rete intertestuale. Percorsi tra testi, discorsi e immagini, Perugia: Morlacchi, 2010

Знак, значение, знание. Очерк когнитивной философии языка

by Alexander Kravchenko

Иркутск, 2001

Когнитивный горизонт языкознания

by Alexander Kravchenko

Иркутск: Изд-во БГУЭП, 2008

В книге ставится вопрос о необходимости переосмысления некоторых традиционных познавательных установок и теоретических... more В книге ставится вопрос о необходимости переосмысления некоторых традиционных познавательных установок и теоретических положений науки о языке. Такая необходимость вызвана отсутствием четко сформулированного идеального проекта языкознания, в результате чего образовался разрыв между теорией и теми практическими задачами, которые наука о языке призвана решить в первую очередь. Обосновывается необходимость новой эпистемологической платформы, призванной вывести науки о языке из методологического тупика, и намечается путь, по которому уже началось движение биологически ориентированной когнитивной науки.

Everyday Aesthetics: Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities

by Katya Mandoki

Mandoki's groundbreaking book advances the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of... more Mandoki's groundbreaking book advances the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life. She argues that in every process of communication, whether face to face or through the media, fashion, and political propaganda, there is always an excess beyond the informative and functional value of a message. This excess is the aesthetic. Following Huizinga’s view of play as an ingredient of any social environment, Mandoki explores how various cultural practices are in fact forms of playing since, for the author, aesthetics and play are Siamese twins.
One of the unique contributions of this book is the elaboration and application of a semiotic model for the simultaneous analysis of social interactions in the four registers, namely visual, auditory, verbal and body language, to detect the aesthetic strategies deployed in specific situations. She argues that since the presentation of the self is targeted towards participants’ sensibilities, aesthetics plays a key role in these modes of exchange. Consequently, the author updates important debates in this field to clear the way for a socio-aesthetic inquiry through contexts such as the family, school, medical, artistic or religious traditions from which social identities emerge.

Entre ficción y mentira. Umberto Eco y la semiótica de la cultura.

by Miguel Mandujano

En su Tratado de Semiótica General, Umberto Eco declara que la semiótica es la disciplina que estudia todo lo que... more En su Tratado de Semiótica General, Umberto Eco declara que la semiótica es la disciplina que estudia todo lo que puede usarse para mentir. Este estudio se propone desandar el proyecto de Eco, considerando la ficción como un campo privilegiado en que el signo es un sustituto significante de cualquier otra cosa; cualquier otra cosa, por cierto, que no tendría que existir en el momento en que el signo la represente.
A través de un recorrido por su obra fundamental, este libro aborda la concepción cultural de una teoría de la mentira bajo la consideración de la creación literaria como uno de sus ámbitos más claros de realización: el de la construcción de mundos posibles en un universo de sentido.
En el fondo subyace la idea de que, como afirma Eco, si una cosa no puede usarse para mentir, tampoco puede usarse para decir la verdad; en realidad, no puede usarse para decir nada.

Semiótica y Teoría de la Comunicación. Tomo I

by Carlos Vidales Gonzáles

El libro presenta una propuesta de revisión de la relación entre la semiótica y los estudios de la comunicación al... more El libro presenta una propuesta de revisión de la relación entre la semiótica y los estudios de la comunicación al tiempo que presenta una primera propusta de integración basada en la biosemiótica, la Cibersemiótica y la teoría de la comunicación. Este libro corresponde al primer tomo de la obra.

REFERENCIA:

VIDALES, Carlos (2010). Semiótica y teoría de la comunicación. Monterrey: CAEIP.

Semiótica y Teoría de la Comunicación. Tomo II

by Carlos Vidales Gonzáles

El libro presenta una propuesta de revisión de la relación entre la semiótica y los estudios de la comunicación al... more El libro presenta una propuesta de revisión de la relación entre la semiótica y los estudios de la comunicación al tiempo que presenta una primera propusta de integración basada en la biosemiótica, la Cibersemiótica y la teoría de la comunicación. Este libro corresponde al segundo tomo de la obra.

REFERENCIA:

VIDALES, Carlos (2011). Semiótica y teoría de la comunicación. Tomo II. Monterrey: CAEIP.

Systemic-Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Grammatical Metaphor: A theoretical study and the proposal for a semiotic-functional integrative model [Taverniers 2002]

by Miriam Taverniers

Taverniers, Miriam. 2002. Systemic-Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Grammatical Metaphor: A theoretical study and the proposal for a semiotic-functional integrative model. PhD dissertation, Ghent University.

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Caracterización de expresiones gestuales semióticas influenciadas por la personalidad y el estado emocional para personajes virtuales

by María Lucila Morales-Rodríguez

TESIS para Obtener el Grado de Maestro en Ciencias en Ciencias de la Computación
Presenta: I.S.C. Patricia Alanis Maldonado (14 Abril 2011)
Director de Tesis: Dra. María Lucila Morales Rodríguez

Es conocido que la comunicación no verbal involucra el uso de expresiones faciales, gestuales y posturas para... more Es conocido que la comunicación no verbal involucra el uso de expresiones faciales, gestuales y posturas para comunicar intenciones, objetivos, sentimientos e ideas; lo que permite reforzar un mensaje dentro de una dinámica de diálogo. Las habilidades de comunicación no verbal son propias de los seres humanos y por más de una década los investigadores han intentado transferir dicha riqueza a un personaje virtual, y a través de esto facilitar la comunicación hombre-máquina.
En la actualidad la comunicación no verbal juega un papel importante en el desarrollo de personajes virtuales, debido a que es un medio que permite mostrar rasgos de personalidad, manifestar un estado de ánimo y reforzar la expresión verbal, buscando así un vínculo de empatía entre el usuario y el personaje.
En esta tesis se desarrolló una metodología para identificar a través de un diseño experimental y una serie de pruebas estadísticas, el conjunto mínimo de atributos que permita caracterizar las expresiones gestuales semióticas (brazos y manos) de personajes virtuales, considerando la influencia de la personalidad, el estado emocional y actos del habla. Los resultados de esta investigación muestran que el conjunto mínimo con el que se caracterizó a la expresión gestual permite discriminar entre gestos deícticos e icónicos.
La integración de los rasgos de personalidad y estado emocional durante el proceso de caracterización tiene como propósito emular la riqueza de la comunicación humana, buscando tornar creíble al personaje virtual y por consiguiente incrementar la inmersión en el mundo virtual en el que se desenvuelve el personaje.

The Primacy of Semiosis: an ontology of relations

by Paul Bains

Chapters on Deleuze and relations, Deely and Poinsot on Relations and Signs, Umwelten (Jacob von Uexkull and Heidegger), Autopoiesis, and more!

How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows... more How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the action of signs. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze, John Deely, and John Poinsot, Paul Bains focuses on the claim that relations are 'external' to their terms, and seeks to give an ontological account of this purported externality of relations.

Bains develops the proposition, first made in 1632 by John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), that, ontologically, signs are relations whose whole being is in esse ad ('being-toward'). Furthermore, relations are found to be univocal in their being as relations. This univocity of being is antecedent to the division between 'ens rationis' and 'ens reale'. The ontology of relations Bains presents is thus neither mind-dependent nor mind-independent insofar as the rationale of the relation is concerned.

The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human. Bains' work promises to be a touchstone for semiotic discussion for years to come.

Paul Bains is an independent scholar living in Kerikeri, NZ.

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Drama of Relation and Its Characters

1 An Even Briefer History of Relations
Terminology
Discussion in and after the Latin West

2 Deleuze and External (or Ontological) Relations
The Circle of the Proposition
The Complex Theme of the Proposition

3 Poinsot and Deely on Relations and Signs
Objective Being
The Doctrine of ‘Species’
Ideas
FormalSigns
Scotist and Thomist Accounts
Objective Being as Umwelt

4 Umwelten
Jakob von Uexküll and Umwelten
The Tick as an Interpreter – the Functional Cycle
Deleuze and Guattari’s Appropriation
Contemporary Value and Semiotic Use
Species-Specific Objective Worlds
Heideggerean Umwelten
The Transformation of Umwelt into Lebenswelt

5 Autopoiesis and Languaging
Background and Context
Cognitive Systems
Living Systems
Languaging

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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