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The Palace of La Moneda: From the trauma of the Hawker Hunters to the therapy of the signs

The objective of this article is to analyze and interpret a series of semiotic-discursive interventions that have occurred in the seat of the Chilean government, the Palace of La Moneda...

Keywords: semio-discursive operations, trauma, signs, symbolic violence, icon, symbol

02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

The making of the literary symbol: Taking note of Langer

Why, in light of the multiple approaches to literature that mark the various semiotic traditions and their complex intertwinings, would one turn to Susanne Langer's seemingly ‘marginal’ or idiosyncratic semiotic theory of art for conceptual resources? I argue that the conceptual core of the answer is found in Langer's notion of a ‘symbol of feeling,’ which is connected with her notion of ‘semblance,’ the imaginal power of art symbols to construct and present their own ‘primary illusions.’ Works of literature — of the poetic art — do not follow a discursive, but rather a presentational logic, giving us access to ‘virtual experience.’

Keywords: symbol, semblance, primary illusions, virtual experience, Langer

06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

What do the ten commandments do? A study of lawyers' semiotics

Against the background of two U.S. Supreme Court cases in 2005 on the question of the public display of the Ten Commandments in the context of the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, the article addresses the way the lawyers, especially the judges, discussed the status of the Ten Commandments as a text and as a symbol...

Keywords: text, symbol, Ten Commandments, religion, law

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Looking behind the symbol: Mythic algebra, numbers, and the illusion of linear sequence

This is the fifth in a series of papers on an algebra, derived from mythology, that can model symbolic processes...

Keywords: algebra, Association, counting, number, sequence, symbol

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