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Yuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres

Yuri Lotman describes metaphors and culture as semiospheres or ‘semiotic spaces.’ This account of metaphors is self-referential insofar as it is itself expressed in the form of a metaphor...

Keywords: semiosphere, metaphor, self-reference, culture, mental space

08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Thirdness as self-reference in computing

We argue that the essence of thirdness in computing is self-reference. Our discussion is grounded on the theories of Church and Curry, which have been studied in the domain of theoretical computing...

Keywords: computing, self-reference, program transformation, fixed-point, abstraction

06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Narrative self-reference in a literary comic: M.-A. Mathieu's L'Origine

Narratives in literature and even in the comics have become self-referential. A self-referential narrative sign is one that represents itself...

Keywords: self-reference, narrative sign, narrative time, metalepsis, paradox, comics

06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Narcissus in language: A semiotic contrast of natural and computer language through self-reference

Natural language as an example of a structural system is compared to programming language as a constructive system through analysis of how differently humans and computers process self-reference...

Keywords: self-reference, sign, Saussurian structuralism, constructivism

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Sign and the lambda-term

We examine lambda calculus as a sign system and show that it explains important properties of language...

Keywords: sign, lambda-term, lambda calculus, self-reference, undecidability of equivalence