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Mythic algebra uses: Metaphor, logic, and the semiotic sign

Mythic algebra was developed in a trio of papers in the Journal of Literary Semantics...

Keywords: algebra, irony, logic, metaphor, myth, sign

02/2006 | 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

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter
Memes 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 Gruyter
The interpretation of verbo-pictorial images in billboards and store banners in Jordanian society: An experimental study

The 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 Gruyter
Anxieties of modernity: A semiotic analysis of globalization images in China

The 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 Gruyter
I Ching and the origin of the Chinese semiotic tradition

This article explores the semiotic thought of I Ching (Book of Changes)...

Keywords: sign, xiang, typology, hermeneutics, epistemology, semiosis

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter
Information, semiotics, and symbolic systems

Three 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