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How to mean without saying: Presupposition and implication revisited
This paper examines presupposition and implication from a semiotic perspective. It suggests that the conventional approaches to presupposition have a limited focus because of emphasis on truth-value, or the propositional level of the utterance...
Keywords: semiotics, Narrative, presupposition, pragmatics, meaning, reference
06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterImages, diagrams, and metaphors: Hypoicons in the context of Peirce's sixty-six-fold classification of signs
In his 1903 Syllabus, Charles S. Peirce makes a distinction between icons and iconic signs, or hypoicons, and briefly introduces a division of the latter into images, diagrams, and metaphors...
Keywords: Hypoicons, classification of signs, semiotics, C. S. Peirce, pictograms, information design
09/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterL'é motion chantée : ‘Eu sei que vou te amar’
Pop songs offer a good opportunity for the study of emotions. The unavoidable presence of the voice — an extension of the singer's body that carries both melody and lyrics — sustains a connection between the enunciator's emotions and his/her work...
Keywords: emotion, meaning, pop song, semiotics, phoria
02/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe give and take between semiotics and second-order cybernetics
In this paper, I describe what I consider to be some of the similarities between semiotics and second-order cybernetics...
Keywords: semiotics, cybernetics, second-order cybernetics, systems, autopoiesis enaction, Communication Theory
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterEducation à la Silhouette : The need for semiotically-informed curriculum consciousness
The word ‘silhouette,’ we are told, ‘was satirically derived from the name of the parsimonious mid-eighteenth century French finance minister É tienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portraits (the phrase à la Silhouette grew to mean ‘on the cheap’)’...
Keywords: semiotics, positivism, education, curriculum, meaning, law
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterLiterary practice on the immediate horizon of the elaboration of semiotics: Peirce's meetings with a few great authors
As a consequence of the specific nature of Peirce's philosophical view, the literary text need not be set against semiotic theory; instead, it may be situated in such a way as to prolong the sign and the movement of semiosis...
Keywords: Peirce, semiotics, theory, literary works, Poe, Proust
06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe role of structures in semiotic systems: Analysis of some ideas of Leonardo da Vinci and the portrait Lady with an Ermine
The formation of all sign systems is based on structures. Structures support the functioning of codes and organization of denotations, connotations, and groups of signs of visual art works...
Keywords: semiotics, structures, connotations, sign systems, Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterTowards applied semiotics: An analysis of iconic gestural signs regarding physics teaching in the light of theatre semiotics
This study seeks to profit from theatre semiotics in order to investigate how semiosis can be implemented in the teaching of physics...
Keywords: iconic, semiotics, gestural signs, teaching, physics, theatre
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterAmbiguity and metaphor
We often consider semantic-pragmatic properties of language independently of each other...
Keywords: metaphor, ambiguity, semantics, stylistics, Cognitive linguistics, semiotics
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterSaussure and the elusive question of the origin
Before he gave the lectures that were to become the
Keywords: Saussure, origins, Lotringer, anagram, semiotics, Presence
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterOnline brands: Branding, possible worlds, and interactive grammars
This paper proposes to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the transformation that brands have undergone since the rise of the Internet...
Keywords: branding, eBranding, possible worlds, interactive narrative, semiotics, Internet
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterFashion as communication: A semiotic analysis of fashion on ‘Sex and the City’
In this article, I demonstrate the phenomenal role that fashion, as a form of communication, plays within contemporary society specifically in television media...
Keywords: semiotics, fashion, media, stéréotype, gender, culture
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMemes versus signs: On the use of meaning concepts about nature and culture
In recent years, the so-called ‘meme’ concept, originally introduced by Richard Dawkins and modelled analogously after the phenomenon of gene, has aroused much discussion...
Keywords: meme, sign, memetics, semiotics, Model, culture
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMedia literacy and semiotics: Toward a future taxonomy of meaning
The pervasiveness of mass media and our dependence on it in contemporary life suggest that special skills are necessary in order to understand the nature of media and its effects on the interpretation of issues and events that happen outside the scope of an individual's experience...
Keywords: semiotics, media literacy, taxonomy, language, pragmatism
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterHjelmslev's semiotic model of language: An exegesis
This article offers a detailed exploration of four types of differentiations on which Hjelmslev's semiotic model of language, developed in his
Keywords: structuralism, semiotics, glossematics, definition of sign, linguistic form
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMultiscale textual semiotic analysis
There has been a wide range of semiotic analysis regarding literary texts. The present study, as far as literature is concerned, focuses on Umberto Eco's fourth novel Baudolino (2000), taking it as a typical example of multi-volume texts that seem to demand a careful approach...
Keywords: semiotics, isotopies, multiscale analysis, associative networks
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterDid the gods go crazy? Emergence and symbols (a few laws in the symbolism of objects)
The theme of this article is emergence in the field of the symbolic content of objects...
Keywords: emergence, Symbols, objects, semiotics, Eastern Europe
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterPeirce on categories: Towards a metaphysical foundation of pragmatics
This paper focuses on Peirce's account of the categories. Its first aim is to work out a synoptic view of Peirce's categorial research...
Keywords: categories, cognition, metaphysics, Ontology, pragmatics, semiosis, semiotics
11/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterHere is the author! Hyperlinks as constitutive rules of hypertextual communication
In this paper, we examine the importance of hyperlinks in revealing the presence of the hypertext author and his decisive role in defining and controlling the dialogue with the user/reader through the hypertext...
Keywords: semiotics, hypermedia, hyperlinks, constitutive rules, dialogue, author
11/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe narrative semiotics of The Daily Show
This study explores how continuity is essential to the processes of social discourse and specifically focuses on its application as a communication strategy used by writers for
Keywords: semiotics, continuity, synechism, broadcast journalism, fake news, The Daily Show
08/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe use of language to create realities: The example of Good Bye, Lenin!
Neither reality nor language is genuinely objective; rather, both the interpretation of reality and the use of language to create and manipulate reality represent a subjective understanding of both...
Keywords: semiotics, language, culture, signs, meaning, film
08/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter