Mythic algebra was developed in a trio of papers in the
Keywords: algebra, irony, logic, metaphor, myth, sign
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterNatural 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 GruyterWe 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
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterIn 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 GruyterThe production of meaning from visual messages has been largely uninvestigated in the Arab world, particularly in such visually intensive areas as advertising, even though the question is of tremendous importance to designers of advertising messages...
Keywords: billboards, store banners, sign, metaphoric representation, code mixing, defamiliarization
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe images of globalization one encounters in China today signify the anguished anxiety of the Chinese for modernity...
Keywords: sign, image, globalization, modernity, consumerism, capital
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis article explores the semiotic thought of
Keywords: sign, xiang, typology, hermeneutics, epistemology, semiosis
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThree basic semiotic modes are presented that show an increasing number of referential relations: passive semiosis (monadic semiotic mode), active production of a sign referring to a state of the utterer (dyadic semiotic mode), and active reference to an external event or object for a partner (triadic semiotic mode)...
Keywords: sign, symbol, icon, indexical relation, referent, representation
08/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter