Semiotics 1981

This volume differs from the volume, Semiotics 1980, in that it is no longer an experimental product, but the result of a permanent commitment of the Semiotic Society of America to publish each year henceforward those papers presented at its Annual Meeting which are submitted to the Secretariat in t...

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Other Authors: Deely, John N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Logic of History as a Semiotic Process of Question and Answer in the Thought of R.G. Collingwood
  • V. Semiotics and Linguistics
  • The Semiotic Paradigm and Language Change
  • What’s in a Word?
  • VI. Literary and Artistic Semiotics
  • Functions of the Index in Narrative: An Outline
  • Symbiosis and Dichotomy in the Names of Anna Axmatova
  • Representation and Subjectivity in Modern Literature
  • Aesthetic Semiosis of the Visual Object
  • Indexicality in Esthetic Signs and the Art of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
  • Subjects and Objects: Quick Notes on the State of Art History
  • Kitsch: A Semiotic Approach
  • Talent and Technique in Theatre: A Semiotics of Performing
  • The Semiotics of Godot Compared with those of the Russian Icon
  • The Teller and the Tale: Sources of Credibility in the Short Story
  • The Guinea Pigs of Ludvik Vaculik: Interrelationof Areas of Reference
  • VII. Fourth Annual Symposium on Empirical Semiotics
  • Why Think About a Cognitive Psychosemiotic Theory?
  • I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues
  • Figurative versus Objective Semiosis: An Epistemological Crossroads
  • Hypersemiosis: Mixed Metaphors as Semiotic Overloading
  • Cognition from a Semiotic Point of View
  • Icon and Symbol: A Reappraisal of the Resemblance Debate
  • Précis of Merleau-Ponty on Metajournalism
  • “Worldiness” and the Analytic Truth
  • The Rheme/Dicent/Argument Distinction
  • The Sign-Status of Specular Reflections
  • Semiotic Phenomenology and Peirce
  • II. Semiotics Of Communication
  • Contexts for Language Learning: Semiotic Perspectives
  • The Semiotic Function of Audience
  • III. Approaches to Gesture
  • Exophoric Reference as an Interactive Resource
  • Searching for a Word as an Interactive Activity
  • Sly Moves: A Semiotic Analysis of Movement in Marshallese Culture
  • The Study of Gesture: Some Remarks on Its History
  • IV. Neglected Figures in the History of Semiotic Inquiry
  • Francis Lieber and the Semiotics of Law
  • Social Symbols and Cultural Identity
  • XII. Foundations of Old Testament Structure and Meaning
  • Matrilineal Background of Genealogies in Genesis
  • Judges 11:12-28: Constructive and Deconstructive Analysis
  • Story Structure and Social Structure in Genesis: Circles and Cycles
  • Author index
  • The Tell-the-Tale Detail
  • The Semiotic Crisis in Contemporary Hospitals
  • VIII. Psychology, Sociology, and Semiotics
  • Who Apes English?
  • Culture and Mind in Peircean Semiotics: One Aspect
  • Sociology and Semiotics: Two Sciences of the Human
  • Semiotic Theory and Language Learning
  • IX. Architectural Semiotics
  • Architectural Semiotic Analysis: A Demonstration
  • “Musement on the Whole”…An Attitude Toward Space
  • X. Peirce Special Session
  • Mathematics as a Semiotic Factor in the Thought of C.S. Peirce
  • An Outline of the Foundations of Modern Semiotic: Charles Peirce and Charles Morris
  • XI. Semiotics of Culture
  • A Comparative Study of Selected Semiotic Elements of Different Branches of Fortune Telling
  • Icon as Index: A Theory of Middle Byzantine Imagery
  • A Critique of Lévi-Strauss’ Theory of Myth and the Elements of a Semiotic Alternative
  • The Civilization of Illiteracy
  • Myth and Symbol in Vico and the “Romantik”: Some Remarks