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the semiotic thresholds
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Göran Sonesson Tähenduse tähendus bioloogias ja kognitiivteadustes: semiootiline rekonstruktsioon. Kokkuvõte
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semiotics of disaster and explosion
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Han-liang Chang Disaster semiotics: An alternative ‘global semiotics’?
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Thomas A. Sebeok’s global semiotics has inspired quite a few followers, noticeably Marcel Danesi, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio. However, for all the trendiness of the word, the very concept of global should be subject to more rigorous examination, especially within today’s ecological and politico-economic contexts. With human and natural disasters precipitating on a global and almost quotidian basis, it is only appropriate for global semioticians to pay more attention to such phenomena and to contemplate, even when confined to their attics, the semiotic consequences of disasters. The paper probes into the semiotic implications of the tsunami disaster that claimed quarter of a million lives in South and Southeast Asia during the Christmas holidays in 2004, and proposes a semiotics of disaster, developed from the discussions of the eighteenth-century British Empiricist philosopher Thomas Reid and the contemporary semiotician David S. Clarke, Jr. As the word’s etymology indicates, disaster originally referred to a natural phenomenon, i.e., ‘an obnoxious planet’, and only by extension was it later used to cover man-made calamities, be it political or economic. Although the dichotomy of nature versus culture no longer holds good, the author uses theword disaster in the traditional sense by referring to ‘natural’ disasters only.
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Han-liang Chang Семиотика бедствия — альтернатива “глобальной семиотике”? Резюме
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Han-liang Chang Õnnetuse semiootika: Alternatiiv ‘globaalsemiootikale’? Kokkuvõte
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Sungdo Kim Semiotics of natural disaster discourse in post-tsunami world: A theoretical framework
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The study of natural disaster and its discursive dimensions from a semiotic perspective can provide a theoretical frame for the scientific communication of global catastrophes. In this paper I will suggest two models; one is a semiotic model on the natural catastrophic events and the other is a hexagon model composed of semiotic dimensions of natural disaster discourse. The six main modules include narration, description, explication, visualization, prevention, and recovery action.
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Sungdo Kim Семиотика природных катастроф: теоретическое обрамление. Резюме
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Sungdo Kim Looduskatastroofi semiootika tsunamijärgses maailmas: teoreetiline raamistik. Kokkuvõte
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Irene Machado Impact or explosion? Technological culture and the ballistic metaphor
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The term ‘impact’ has become the kind of word which, when it relates to the evaluation of technological advances in contemporary culture, suggests signs of erosion, debilitation and evasion. The misinformed and indiscriminate use of the term in the most varied of contexts has created an impasse in the cultural semiotic approach, where sign systems are viewed in terms of borders and relations. The objective of this article is to examine the trivialisation of the use of the ballistic metaphor in this explosive moment of the culture. For this, we will refer to the formulations presented by the semiotician, Juri Lotman, in his book, appropriately entitled Culture and Explosion. To what degree is the concept of explosion presented as a counterpart to the notion of impact? The desire to find answers to this question is what motivated this inquiry.
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Irene Machado Столкновение или взрыв? Технологическая культура и баллистическая метафора. Резюме
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Irene Machado Kokkupõrge või plahvatus? Tehnoloogiline kultuur ja ballistiline metafoor. Kokkuvõte
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semiotics of the end
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Олег Борисович Заславский Structural paradoxes of Russian literature and poetics of pseudobroken text. Summary
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Олег Борисович Заславский Структурные парадоксы русской литературы и поэтика псевдооборванного текста
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Oleg B. Zaslavskii. Structural paradoxes of Russian literature and poetics of pseudobroken text. Traditionally, the Pushkin’s work “My provodili vecher na dache…” is considered to be uncompleted. However, on the basis of structural arguments, we show that, in fact, it is completed as an artistic whole. Taking also into account the results of previous analysis of works by Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol’, we introduce a new notion of “pseudobroken texts”. Their distinctive feature consists in the structural correspondence between the break of a plot and a break as the theme of the text — such, that it is the break of a text which confirms that the text is finished. From the general viewpoint, such a paradoxical phenomenon can be viewed as modeling the impossibility to destroy art and culture.
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Олег Борисович Заславский Struktuursed paradoksid vene kirjanduses ja pseudokatkestatud teksti poeetika. Kokkuvõte
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