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1. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 1/2
Milton Singer ON THE SEMIOTICS OF INDIAN IDENTITY
2. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 1/2
Henryk Baran BOOKS RECEIVED
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George Steiner NARCISSUS AND ECHO: A Note on Current Arts of Reading
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Christian Kloesel NEWS AND EVENTS
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David Lidov THE ALLEGRETTO OF BEETHOVEN’S SEVENTH
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Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz SEMIOTICS IN POLAND AND ITS HISTORICAL ROOTS
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JERZY PELC THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SEMIOTICS
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Jonathan Culler SEMIOTICS OF TOURISM
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Roland Posner, Martin Krampen SEMIOTIC CIRCLES IN GERMANY
10. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 1/2
Kenneth Laine Ketner THE BEST EXAMPLE OF SEMIOSIS AND ITS USE IN TEACHING SEMIOTICS
11. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 3
Mihai Nadin Consistency, Completeness, and the Meaning of Sign Theories
12. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 3
Eugen Baer The Medical Symptom: Phylogeny and Ontogeny
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Thomas A. Sebeok Dialogue About Signs with a Nobel Laureate
14. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 3
Daniel Patte Greimas’s Model for the Generative Trajectory of Meaning in Discourses
15. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 3
Henryk Baran BOOKS RECEIVED
16. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 4
Jerzy Pelc Semiotic and Nonsemiotic Concepts of Meaning
17. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 4
Joan L. Erdman The Empty Beat: Khālī as a Sign of Time
18. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 4
Henryk Baran BOOKS RECEIVED
19. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 4
Roberta Kevelson Comparative Legal Cultures and Semiotics: An Introduction
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Peirce defines the legal expression proximale cause and effect as an “obscure term like most of the terms of Aristotelianism.” He says that students of law and logic should be shocked by thc practicc of justifying the payment of damages in law by reference to a “term in Aristotelian logic or metaphysics.” That such practice does occur underscores and “illustrates the value of PRAGMATISM.” Peirce reminds usthat in English law the term “witness” does not mean a person who testifies to his own experience, “but to facts which he knows by the immediate testimony of others” (from Baldwin’sDictionary, vol. 2,281-282; in CP 6.391).Practical law, Peirce suggests, results from persons whose knowledge of the facts of experience are formed in dialogue with others whose experience confirms their own. The dialogue is immediate; the knowledge is mediated through signs. From the viewpoint of Peirce’s pragmatism which he sees as an integral part of his semiotic Methodology or Speculative Rhetoric (MSS 774, 775) this paper will assurne that there are distinct types of legal cultures and that each may be regarded as a method of inquiry for the purpose of realizing social values. The relation between Laws and Societies-systems of legalities and legitimacies-will be regarded as culture-specific modes of dialectic. I propose here that Peirce’s Methodology-his method of methods-may account for the way that “patterns of conceptual change retlect the presuppositional structures of conceptual systems” (Toulmin 1972 :70-71). Within the framework of a semiotics of law I will be looking at various ways the idea of the Legal System has been interpreted.
20. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 4
Elena Semeka-Pankratov The Structure of a Twin Myth In Māhavamsa